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Stop Treating LLMs Like Google (And How I Used One to Crack a “Forensic...
Stop Treating LLMs Like Google (And How I Used One to Crack a “Forensic Mystery”) We’ve all seen the complaints. “LLMs hallucinate.” “They get simple things wrong.” “They just regurgitate internet...
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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...
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Complete Guide to Disk Drill 6 Scan Modes for Data Recovery
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...
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Partition Recovery Software
Partition Recovery – What It Is and How It Works Partition loss can seem catastrophic, but it doesn’t always mean your data is gone. Whether due to accidental deletion, corruption, or formatting,...
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Can State Actors Recover Data from Snapped Chips? Not Unless They Have a Time...
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...
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What’s inside a MicroSD card?
On the Reddit data recovery sub (r/datarecovery) we often get asked if data can be recovered from fractured. snapped MicroSD Cards. It’s very likely the answer will be “no”. A microSD Card is what’s...
View Article4DDiG, RepairIt, Stellar photo repair tools and JPEG-Repair video.
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:...
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Noteworthy JPEG-Repair updates..
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...
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Recover deleted Bitlocker partition using DMDE
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...
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SSD power-cycle ‘trick’ ..
The SSD power-cycle trick, 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...
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Using Disk Drill – A short review (again)
Disk Drill fan boy 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 the file recovery tool. A set of features that in my opinion...
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Disk Drill 6 sneak preview (GoPro Recovery) + Discount
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...
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Sony Format Recovery: Recover Formatted Photos from Sony Camera
Common perception is that recovery of photos and video from a in camera formatted memory card is a matter of running a file recovery or photo recovery tool. Many makers of this type of software also...
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And now I’m done with Steve Gibson (and SpinRite)
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...
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Drives returning bogus data on failed reads
Some examples of drives returning bogus data after failed reads. Among data recovery engineers these are referred to as “mold” or “edu” sectors and they’re most likely parts of the drive’s S.A. or...
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Can you detect a drive was trimmed by reading it?
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...
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Using Disk Drill – A short review (again)
Note in advance: If you read this blogpost in the hope to read an evaluation of file recovery capabilities of Disk Drill then there’s no use in continuing because I never got that far. If you’re...
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Decoding Status from NVMe SMART logs
I noticed this question a lot (on SuperUser for example) and I wondered about it myself too. Questions like: Decyphering NVMe SMART error root@truenas[~]# smartctl -l error /dev/nvme4 smartctl 7.2...
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Seagate RAW SMART Attributes to Error Converter
Convert Seagate SMART RAW values for attributes: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 7 Seek_Error_Rate 195 ECC_On_the_Fly_Count to actual errors. These values are known to display huge numbers, often leading to...
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A write protected SSD (NVMe, read-only) ..
A SSD drive becoming read-only or write protected is a fairly common issue. Many online guides bypass diagnostics and immediately unleash a number of possible solutions which commonly involve registry...
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