Now when we covered most of the theory, we can proceed to actually recovering files. As you may remember from our previous article, FAT was never designed with data recovery in mind. As a result, FAT was very inconvenient to … Continue reading →

In our previous article we were discussing how data recovery tools are able to recover information. In that article we covered FAT, one of the two major file systems used in Windows computers. Today, we’ll be discussing the other file … Continue reading →

The ability to remotely wipe information stored on a mobile device such as a smartphone or a tablet becomes increasingly important the more personal information is stored on the device. Since the early days of high-tech, city legends had it … Continue reading →

Looking for a guide on recovering DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, RTF, ODS/ODT or PDF documents? We have a complete walkthrough tutorial to guide you through the entire recovery process. We cover every step of the process from selecting a data … Continue reading →

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Now when we found the file system, we can start analyzing its records. Our goal is identifying addresses of the physical sectors on the disk that contain data belonging to a deleted file. In order to do that, a data … Continue reading →

In 2013, there are plenty of file systems around. There are FAT, NTFS, HFS, exFAT, ext2/ext3 and many other file systems used by the many different operating systems. And yet, the oldest and simplest file system of them all is … Continue reading →

Digital forensics and data recovery walk hand to hand. Developers of forensic analysis tools implement many of the same algorithms and use most of the same techniques available in the recovery tools. There are, however, certain differences in reasoning and … Continue reading →