Last year, we compiled a list of most common mistakes made by victims of data loss. This year, we updated the list. While many mistakes remained the same, something new also made it to the list. Meet the updated Top 10 List of Common Data Recovery Mistakes!
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Data Recovery from NAS, USB and Other External Storage Media
More and more information ends up being stored on attached storage systems. Remote hard drives with USB, FireWire or LAN connection as well as full-blown multi-disk NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices can keep terabytes of data.
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Reasons of Data Loss
The Undelete (http://the-undelete.com) have been helping its customers to recover lost and deleted information for almost 7 years. During this time, we answered lots of questions, helped solve hundreds of issues, and delivered tools recovering terabytes worth of information. We have also collected statistics on common reasons leading to loss of data, and numbers on recovery success/failure rates.
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Recovering Formatted Disks: Is It Recoverable?
Recovering formatted partitions (disks, memory cards, USB flash drives etc.) is a very special case with multiple “ifs” and “buts” making the result a bit iffy. If your device recoverable after a format? Read along to find out!
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SSD Recovery. Does TRIM Destroy Everything?
As demonstrated in a series of articles published earlier in this blog, solid-state disks (SSD) tend to wipe deleted information on their own pace due to the way their garbage collection mechanism is designed. Wiped information cannot be recovered by any means, not even with expensive hardware, and not even by pulling flash memory chips out. It’s gone forever.
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Choosing a Data Recovery Lab and Why Using Authorized Service Centers Makes Sense
In an unlikely event you experience a hard drive failure, you might have started looking for a reputable data recovery outlet. It takes a lot of research, some patience, and a good deal of luck to find one.
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Unallocated Disk Space Analysis
Unallocated space analysis is one of the major principles of data recovery. Most modern recovery tools integrate the ability to analyze unallocated sectors in one way or another. Unlike the traditional data recovery approach based on looking up for deleted records in the file system, unallocated space analysis only uses the file system to determine which parts of the disk are currently unused by files, the file system and other system structures.
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Disk Fragmentation and File Carving: Part II
Is disk fragmentation such a huge issue in the context of data recovery? Various sources report that, while normally disk fragmentation is rather low in modern systems, fragmentation rates for user content such as photos, documents and videos can reach 16 to almost 60 per cent due to frequent overwrites. Having the ability to recover fragmented files would be great for any data recovery user.
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Disk Fragmentation and File Carving: Part I
Did you ever encounter mentions of a “file carving” technique used to recover information from formatted, corrupted and inaccessible disks? Originally, file carving (or data carving) was invented as a technique used by forensic specialists to recover evidence a suspect attempted to destroy. In the context of data recovery tools, the term is almost never used correctly. In this article, we’ll discuss the data carving technique and talk about the differences between this technology and the more commonly available signature search analysis.
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The Drawbacks of NTFS and the FAT File System: Part II
If NTFS is such a great file system, why isn’t it used everywhere? The drawbacks of the NTFS file system include lack of interoperability, considerable overhead and overall complexity. Let’s look at each individual issue.
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