Recovery Software

There are three simple rules to avoid data loss on removable storage media. – Use Unmount or Safe Remove to safely eject the device – Do not remove the storage device while in use – Disable write cache for removable … Continue reading →

In the first article called “How SSD Drives Permanently Erase Deleted Data” we described the reasons for SSD drives to erase your data permanently as soon as you erase a file, quick-format the disk or delete a partition. Sounds scary, … Continue reading →

In the last series consisting of two articles “How Data Recovery Works” and “How Carving Works”, we looked at how Windows deletes files and how information is left on the hard drive and not automatically erased or overwritten. Well, this … Continue reading →

This post continues series of articles about the internal mechanisms of today’s data recovery tools. In “How Data Recovery Works”, we looked at how file recovery tools can recover deleted files by using the file system. But what if the … Continue reading →

In recent years, we’ve seen a large number of tools marketed as data recovery solutions. However, when testing some of these tools, we discovered that not all of them are fit to the job. The major differentiating factor is the … Continue reading →

In Part I of this article, we discussed how microcontrollers are used in all SD cards to hide physical chip defects to create an illusion of contiguous, reliable storage. Today we’ll talk about how reliable (or unreliable) SD cards are … Continue reading →

Quick-formatting a disk does not physically erase information stored on the disk, allowing a data recovery tool to recover everything down to the last file. Wrong! The Quick Format command destroys enough information to make the recovery complicated, while making … Continue reading →

Recover or Repair? So will you need a file recovery tool or a file repair utility? Let’s look at some typical scenarios. 1. Let’s say you have a document named “MyDocument1.doc”. When trying to open that document with Microsoft Word, … Continue reading →

File Recovery Limitations File recovery tools have their limits. If you are recovering small, recently deleted files that are not fragmented, you may never need a file repair tool as such files will usually present no problems. If, however, you … Continue reading →

If you had to recover a bunch of files, chances are one or more of them won’t open correctly. Some files will always come out corrupted or incomplete, no matter how good a recovery tool you were using. In order … Continue reading →