by Digby Saunders | Jan 22, 2023 | Data Recovery, Deleted Files
Data Recovery SD and other devices supporting TRIM For years, storage devices have posed a challenge when it comes to speed and capacity. With the aim of making them compact and low-powered, especially ideal for laptops and portable devices, electronic industry has...
by Digby Saunders | Dec 6, 2022 | Data Recovery, Deleted Files
Sd Card corrupted with No NEF FILES. A client came to me after a holiday in Egypt saying that the SD-CARD he had been using was somehow corrupted. The client was using a Nikon D3300 camera and there were some jpegs and but no NEF files on the card. The client was...
by Digby Saunders | Jan 8, 2022 | Data Recovery, Deleted Files, Hard Drives
Logical Volume Manager is a disk manager which allows spanning partitions across many devices and enables partition resizing. It has been in the Linux kernel since 1999 and relying on its device mapper framework, is now supported by every modern distribution. It...
by Digby Saunders | Dec 25, 2021 | Data Recovery, Deleted Files
A solid-state drive is a device full of flash memory chips. To be able to read and manipulate the data on these chips the operating system needs a way to arrange the data on a SSD . Data stored on an SSD is divided into blocks of data. These blocks are, in turn,...
by Digby Saunders | Nov 21, 2021 | Data Recovery, Deleted Files, Deleted Partitions, FAT filesystem
A very common problem is when people come to me with cards (SD Cards, Compact Flash Cards) ,see pic below, from cameras where photos are missing. The same problems can occur with USB or flash drives and Micro SD cards from mobile phones. Invariably I start talking...
by Digby Saunders | Dec 16, 2017 | Data Recovery, Deleted Files, Hard Drives, NTFS Filesystem, Raw Recovery
A client came to me with a failing 1 terabyte seagate hard drive and he desparately needed his Chief Architect files to be recovered. Chief Architect is a 3D design tool primarily for the design of houses which my client now did in his retirement , interestingly...
