Category Archives: Disk Structures and File Systems

Disk Structures File Systems are vital for an operating system to locate your data on a hard disk. A chain of pointers, starting at the first sector of your drive eventually points to individual files.

Recover data from a RAW file system using ReclaiMe

volume does not contain a recognized file system

Recommended data recovery programs (DiskTuna Approved): UFS Explorer www.ufsexplorer.com. Very well rounded tool supporting many filesystems and advanced storage technologies such as RAID and numerous encryption techniques. Moderately difficult to use. This is your best bet when trying to recover data from NAS devices. [Mac/Win/Lin]{FAT|NTFS|ReFS|HFS+|APFS|EXT|BTRFS|UFS|XFS|ZFS|+More +RAID} R-Studio www.r-tt.com. Well rounded tool with a… Read More »

DIY data recovery – gegevens redden voor dummies, met ReclaiMe

Triage a Hard Drive Guide for Technicians

How to Triage a Hard Drive Guide for Technicians With data recovery, your main goal is to get the patient drive cloned/imaged to a healthy drive or image file. If you cannot do this with relative ease, it is, for sure, a sign that something is wrong with the drive. In order to allow us… Read More »

Recover data from a RAW partition using ReclaiMe

Finding out which file is affected by a bad sector

Hard disk ‘repair’ software like Spinrite, DiskPatch or the hard disk manufacturer diagnostic software often identifies bad sectors in the form of an LBA address (logical block addressing). A commonly asked question is, “how do I determine, which file is affected by a bad sector?”. What is bad sector repair? Bad sector repair utilities do not actually… Read More »

iRecover NAS Data Recovery

Notice: As iRecover is no longer available I’m afraid you will need to look for an alternative. In this article there are some suggestions for NAS Data Recovery Software: https://www.disktuna.com/nas-data-recovery-software/ I was contacted by an iRecover user that was trying to do a NAS Data Recovery. It is clear to me from the start that… Read More »

JPEG Repair after bad sector damage

JPEG Repair after it was damaged by a bad sector. The following example represents JPEG Repair after bad sector damage (512 bytes) right in the middle of compressed image data. Using a binary editor this data is zeroed. JPEG repair is performed on this image file. File affected by one or more bad sectors typically show… Read More »

DiskTuna DFR – Undelete for FAT, FAT32 and NTFS

Note that this software is no longer maintained or supported: It lacks exFAT support. It either works or it doesn’t. If it fails to recover lost photos from memory cards try JpegDigger instead. For more serious data loss issues use ReclaiMe (formatted volume, RAW volume, data loss from NAS etc.). Fully functional freeware to undelete your files! This means… Read More »

FAT or NTFS partition shows as RAW – Repair a RAW disk

There are two ways to tackle the problem of a RAW partition: Extract data (file recovery) or repair the partition. Repairing a RAW partition is only possible in a limited number of cases using tools like DiskPatch. Safest approach is always to use file recovery software to copy data to another disk.

DIY Data Recovery from unknown disk … (3)

DIY Data recovery software tested against an unallocated and un-initialized hard disk. This is a continuation of a series, previous articles are here and here. Background info and a more detailed analysis of the contents of the hard disk is here. Disk Drill I guess you can call this software good looking, it’s a matter… Read More »