Disk Drill 6 — Scan Modes Explained A practical, no-fluff guide to how Disk Drill finds files and which scan mode to pick. Get Disk Drill with a 10% discount! How Disk Drill finds lost files Disk Drill uses two fundamentally different detection methods. Understanding them helps you pick the right scan mode and saves… Read More »
Partition Recovery – What It Is and How It Works Software in this blogpost: Software Type Key Features UFS Explorer Data Extraction Scans raw disks to extract files when partition structure is lost. DMDE Extraction / Repair Allows manual rebuilding of partition structures and direct file system scanning. Disk Drill Data Extraction User-friendly interface for… Read More »
Debunking the Myth of DIY NAND Chip Repair This is exactly the kind of pseudo-technical nonsense that spreads unchecked. A recent Reddit post confidently claimed that cracked MicoSD Cards and damaged NAND chips could be recovered with advanced tools like electron beam lithography and scanning probe microscopes. People upvoted it in droves. It’s classic Dunning-Kruger… Read More »
Last few weeks I stumbled onto several cases where file recovery software didn’t detect these deleted partitions. And even though these tools can decrypt Bitlocker partitions, they have to be able to find it first. I used DMDE. In one case DMDE detected the partition straight away, which is boring so I won’t get into… Read More »
The SSD power-cycle method, urban myth or .. So all of a sudden your SSD does not longer show up after your PC ‘crashed’. You go online to search for a solution and people tell you to power-cycle the drive. The origine of the ‘trick’ appears to be a Crucial Support post: Find a computer… Read More »
I was asked to try Disk Drill 6 beta, in particular I was asked to comment on the new Action Camera Module that was specifically designed to recover video data from GoPro, DJI action cameras, but also for example ‘normal’ Sony cameras. What’s so special about Action Cam videos? What makes them hard to recover?… Read More »
Is SpinRite a scam? Is S.G. a charlatan? People have accused Steve Gibson of being a charlatan and his SpinRite software of being little more than a scam. As you may or may not know S.G. is working on an update for the SpinRite DOS software, SpinRite 6.1. This has been a process that has… Read More »
Different flash operations (read / write / erase) have different power requirements. This is probably due to fact that an erase operation requires 4 times the voltage, about 20v, than what a read operation requires, about 5v. So idea is that power consumption gives clues about what a flash drive is doing. I am assuming the… Read More »
A common FAT32, exFAT corruption type is folders turning into files, specially on USB pendrives and memory cards. This post offers three ways to recover your data.
About this post This is quick write up about observations during recovery of an ‘unstable’ USB flash drive (pendrive, USB stick). This also in response to messages I pick up in various forums, where people struggle seeing how DeepSpar’s USB Stabilizer can help them improve disk imaging – while they do see how it’s a… Read More »