SD Card Recovery

It took about an hour to get the four 8GB dumps from the two 16GB NAND chips from a 32GB SD card. It will take at least two more hours to run the ECC check and correction before we can move forward with the virtual reconstruction and file system recovery. The entire...

1TB Seagate Hard Drive Remotely Recovered

The Recovery Force team frequently provides remote data recovery assistance to data recovery professionals all around the world.  Recently, our team was able to assist another lab owner in getting a 1TB Seagate (ST1000DM003 1ER162-020 HP51) to identify and fully...

RAID Data Recovery

When one encounters multiple hard drive failure in a RAID server there is a sense of panic and concern.  Are the backups working?  Is all the data backed up?  Are all the server settings to rebuild a new server documented?  How long is it going to take?  What is going...

The Risks Behind Software Recovery Attempts

DeepSpar has posted a great two-part article on the risks of software only attempts to recover data.  If you are a technician who is in the habit of connecting a client’s failing drive to a Windows system as the first step of diagnosis, you definitely will want...

How to Triage a Hard Drive Guide for Technicians

With data recovery, your main goal is to get the patient drive cloned/imaged to a healthy drive or image file. If you cannot do this with relative ease, it is, for sure, a sign that something is wrong with the drive. In order to allow us all to be on the same page,...

Apple Data Recovery

Own an Apple computer system such as a Mac Pro, iMac, Mac Mini, MacBook Pro, Mac Server or a MacBook Air?  Although all theses systems use Apple proprietary hardware and Mac OS operating system, they all still use the same hard drives and solid state drives that you...