Disk Drill fan boy New: Disk Drill, picking the right scan mode. This is not a full blown review, I am working on that. Instead this is a quick evaluation of features I’d like to see in any file recovery tool. A set of features that in my opinion make the difference between a serious… Read More »
Can a Corrupt JPEG Be Repaired? Here’s How to Tell One of the most common questions I hear is: “Can this corrupt JPEG be repaired?” The truth is: sometimes yes, but often no. If your file is filled with meaningless data — for example, all zeros or repeating FF bytes — there’s nothing left to… Read More »
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 »
What’s Inside a MicroSD Card? MicroSD cards are tiny but packed with surprisingly complex technology. Even though they look simple from the outside, inside there’s a whole world of tiny components working together to store your data safely. What’s Inside? At its core, a microSD card is basically a single, sealed unit—everything’s soldered together in… Read More »
Several points I address in this video: Compare different photo repair tools Wonder why my customer tried so many of these Discuss photo diagnostics tools in JPEG-Repair Toolkit Tools in the video: WonderShare RepairIt 4DDiG Photo Repair Stellar Repair for Photos DiskTuna JPEG-Repair Toolkit
JPEG-Repair 2.8.249 updates Drag & drop in file browser. The file browser is archaic and I know it. At the same time it’s quite intertwined with JPEG-Repair functionality which makes it difficult to ditch it and replace it by default Windows file open and save dialogs. I myself am probably the most frequent user of… 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 »