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AV False positives are a plague, specially those by AI
This post if about the power of big tech companies like Microsoft (I have had similar experiences with Google), and also about the human touch being replaced by AI. About artificial intelligence make...
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Wondershare (RecoverIt) gets the boot from majorgeeks.com
It’s no secret that I am not a fan of Wondershare’s RecoverIt. I think it’s a very poor, over hyped tool. And yet you see it pop up it’s ugly face everywhere, despite the fact you can get get superior...
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Windows Photos: It looks like we don’t support this file format
Windows Photos: “It looks like we don’t support this file format.” The first thing you need to check is if other photo viewers can actually open the file. For example try the ‘old’ Windows Photo Viewer...
View ArticleJPEG restart markers to the rescue
Restart markers make the difference This YouTube channel by my friend and colleague Nguyễn Vũ Hà has many great examples of JPEG-Repair being used to repair STOP/DJVU ransomware affected files. This...
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Leapp refurbished iPhone 8 – Binnen maand stuk (Dutch article)
Leapp refurbished iPhone 8 = als nieuw (niet!) De hel genaamd Leapp.nl .. Tsja, het lijkt een sympathiek idee. Een 2e hands iPhone, echter helemaal nagekeken en met garantie. Ik heb zelf niets met...
View ArticleNikon RAW NEF and STOP DJVU ransomware
It turns out, RAW Nikon files (NEF) are easier to ‘repair’ even than RAW Canon files. I will expand this post this week, and add a video, but full resolution JPEGs can be extracted from corrupt NEF...
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Unstable SD card with bad sectors data recovery – freezing, locks up, read...
Recovering your precious photos from a SD card can be challenging enough after accidental file deletion or formatting. Recovering data from an unstable SD Card may prove to even more difficult....
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Recent changes to JPEG-Repair Toolkit
2.8.101 # Adds MCU clone tool To repair a JPEG you typically need to remove corrupt data which affects alignment of all data following corruption. To re-align you then insert stuff bytes (zeros) which...
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Recover deleted DCIM folder on android mobile phone (Samsung)
Original question: Help, I deleted my entire DCIM folder from mobile phone (Samsung) Micro SD Card. Can I recover my photos? A typical answer to this question in many forums and communities is, pull...
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Media-Repair. Small repair tool for MP3 and WAV files affected by STOP/DJVU
I am working on a small repair tool that allows you to repair MP3 and WAV files that are affected by STOP/DJVU ransomware. To test it I need files encrypted by this ransomware. To repair WAV files the...
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Accidentally deleted pictures from SSD. Recovered but they’re corrupted.
Case study, Story goes like: Accidentally deleted some pictures. Recovered them but they’re corrupted. Anyway to fix it? “I used Recuva to recover a good chunk of my pictures that were deleted but it...
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These 9 Sony memory cards might corrupt your files
Sony has issued a product advisory warning for nine of its SD memory cards, across three different product lines, that might damage your data. The cards, listed below, are at risk of corrupting your...
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Repair MP4, MOV, 3GP, M4V, WAV, MP3 after STOP/DJVU ransomware
As most ransomware STOP/DJVU encrypts files to make them inaccessible. After you pay the ransom (in bitcoins), the attackers send the tools and information needed to decrypt your files and make them...
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An alternative for repairing STOP Djvu encrypted photos
Over the past few months I did a number of videos that show how you can use JPEG-Repair (the repair part of the JPEG-Repair Toolkit) to repair STOP Djvu encrypted photos. During the making of the...
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Create a disk image of a SD Card or small USB flash drive
In this post I’ll explain how you can create a sector-by-sector disk image of a small USB flash drive or memory card using JpegDigger. This type if disk images are also referred to as dd or RAW image...
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How can a data recovery lab get the data you can’t?
I am all for DIY (do it yourself). In fact my first website was called ‘DIY Data Recovery’, and the idea was to provide people with information and tools to perform their own data recoveries. I...
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STELLAR REPAIR FOR PHOTO – Thumbnail extraction feature
A question I get every now then is: Your JPEG-Repair wasn’t able to fix my photos, however Stellar’s Repair for Photo (click to download) managed to at least extract JPEG thumbnails. (Stellar Repair...
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Why is photo repair more expensive than photo recovery?
I offer two services; photo repair and photo recovery. I question I sometimes get is, how is it possible you recover hundreds of photos for a flat fee of $59,95 while the repair of one single photo can...
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Recovering data from an unstable flash drive
Recovering data from an unstable flash drive often proves to be a lot harder than recovering data that was lost due to deletion or accidental formatting. This is due to the fact that data recovery...
View ArticleRecover photos from a hard drive
To recover photos from a hard drive, in 9 out of 10 cases generic file recovery software will do better, give less fuzz and be quicker than specialized photo recovery software. In advance: SSD is...
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