by Digby Saunders | Oct 27, 2021 | Data Recovery
I just wanted to show to you how we go about diagnosing hard drives so that we can understand what repairs need to be performed on the drive. The process of Data Recovery is in fact the repair of the failed WD My Passport drive so that data can be recovered. WD My...
by Digby Saunders | Oct 19, 2021 | Data Recovery, Mac Data Recovery, Raw Recovery
I received a 160gb Fujitsu hard drive from a client which had a damaged PCB , it later turned out that the drive was from an early macbook which had been dropped in salt water while it was still running. When I first received the drive it was not clear exactly what...
by Digby Saunders | Oct 16, 2021 | Data Recovery
This is an article I have been meaning to do for some time and discusses the odd occurrence where if the first sector a WD MyBook external hard drive fails the decryption does not engage and the drive becomes unreadable. While there are off the shelf tools to perform...
by Digby Saunders | Oct 5, 2021 | Data Recovery
I am thrilled to announce that Bitdefender has released a remarkable decryption tool for the Revil/Sodinokibi ransomware. You can easily download it from the following link:...
by Digby Saunders | Mar 8, 2019 | Data Recovery, NTFS Filesystem, Raw Recovery
The Problem It is not often that I am asked to go on site to perform a recovery. But in this case a large mining and exploration company had suffered a power outage and one of their HP dedicated servers was now not booting and they wanted me to come in and recover...