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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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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