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Free Drive Passport Utility
A passport is how a drive ID’s itself. This simple utility tries, via various methods to determine a drive’s ID and serial number. Sometimes it is for example useful to know which hard drive is...
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Can data be recovered from an erased or zero filled drive?
Overwriting Hard Drive Data: The Great Wiping Controversy Okay, this is another one that annoys me: The claim, the myth that certain three letter agencies can recover data from erased or zero filled...
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Data Recovery Lab Success Rates. Are they worth anything?
What a data recovery lab claims .. Let’s look at the claim that Seagate makes for it’s data recovery services: Source:...
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Bitcoin Recovery – wallet.dat
My Bitcoin wallet had little value back then .. Disclaimer: This is a quick write up, and so it does not even touch my usual not so high standards. In various forums and online communities there seems...
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Recover lost or deleted Bitcoin Wallet.dat using R-Studio
While this blog post covers my initial ‘research’, intention of this blog is to give an easier to digest guide into recovering or undeleting a Bitcoin wallet.dat file. Note that if you delete files or...
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Corrupt 7-Zip (7z) archive, a lucky break ..
I was looking through a 7-Zip file in an attempt to repair it using HxD. The archive was created by ZArchiver, an Android backup app. Once the backup was created the phone was reset. Repairing a...
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Can corrupt NEF (Nikon RAW) files be repaired?
Can corrupt NEF (Nikon RAW) files be repaired? A question I frequently get from people that discover my JPEG repair service. Can corrupt NEF (Nikon RAW) files be repaired? The answer is similar to the...
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File system corruption and USBC folder and files..
This is a quick write up after some initial research into occurrence of sectors that start with the string USBC or 0x55534243. These are common cause for data loss and can be hard to recover from. I...
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WD MyBook Live drives wiped – Data Recovery
Earlier this week ‘rumors‘ started spreading about WD MyBook Live NAS devices were remotely instructed to return to factory settings. Well, this is no longer a rumor, it is happening. I write this...
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USB Stick kapot – Gegevens redden
Ze zijn zo handig maar ook zo kwetsbaar, USB sticks. Om gegevens uit wisselen, de delen, op te sturen. Om je gegevens altijd bij je te hebben ongeacht op welke PC je werkt. Maar zoals gezegd ook...
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Wondershare, Stellar photo repair tools, scams or ..
Observation: YouTube videos and ‘honey-pot’ articles on Stellar and Wondershare website addressing the issue of grey blocks in, or half grey photos. Example: In the video we watch the miracle happen,...
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Repair a Sony RAW ARW photo (visual damage)
I long believed that it was close to impossible to repair visually distorted RAW photos. But a while back I was able to repair a visually distorted Nikon RAW photo (NEF) and now a Sony ARW RAW photo....
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Corrupt JPEG Files and how to fix them
In this blogpost we’ll look at: A good JPEG as point of reference JPEG header corruption and how to repair Header + part of image data damaged and repair Corruption in JPEG image data resulting in...
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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...
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How to recover data from corrupted RAW photos
Repairing corrupt RAW photos (CR2, NEF, ARF etc.) There aren’t many solutions or even services available that actually and truly repair RAW photos produced by high-end digital cameras such as DSLRs...
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Tenorshare 4DDiG JPEG Repair?!
New (to me at least) JPEG ‘repair’ tool, Tenorshare 4DDiG. So I test it against files I know to be repairable. Success!, it says, go buy license. Let’s see: Compare size original files vs. what it...
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Sector reallocation on hard drives explained.
I notice much nonsense online about bad sector reallocation on hard drives while in essence it is quite simple: Conditions for sector reallocation are: Non-recovered write errors When a write...
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USB flash drive freezes Windows Explorer – Optimal setup for disk imaging
About this post This is quick write up about observations during recovery of an ‘unstable’ USB flash drive (pendrive, USB stick). This also in response to messages I pick up in various forums, where...
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