How to recover data from an SSD drive
There are many advantages that SSDs have over traditional mechanical hard disk drives (HDD). The main list includes the speed of reading and writing information, resistance to mechanical damage and low power consumption. The main disadvantages include high price and a short time to failure. An SSD consists of a control unit and a memory unit (a FLASH chip and a DRAM chip). The SSD drive can be widely used as a portable hard drive, micro hard... Read the article
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- May 19, 2017
Recovering Data from VMWare Images
Virtual machines are everywhere. In Web hosting environments, they are used as protected containers sandboxing data that belongs to customers sharing the same physical server. In corporate environments, virtual machines are used for additional security and the added convenience of deploying, managing and backing up computers. Developers use virtual machines to isolate code. Virtual machines are frequently used at homes to isolate untrusted... Read the article
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- April 18, 2017
Windows 10 Changes Recovery Mechanism, Becomes More Susceptible to Data Corruption
There is, however, another change in Windows 10 that makes the system somewhat more prone to failures while making recovery potentially riskier. Let’s have a look at what changed in the Windows 10 recovery mechanism, how this can affect system stability and recoverability and what you can do to ensure continuous trouble-free operation. Windows Recovery Partition: The Old-Fashioned Way Since Windows 7, OEM Windows installs maintained a dedicated... Read the article
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- December 20, 2016
How to Recover Files from an Android SD Card using a PC
The Android operating system is one of the most popular in the world, and today there are more than 2.5 billion users of Android devices globally. Each user stores important data both on the device’s internal memory and SD cards, which are an economical way to expand the device’s memory. However, like any other storage medium, it can fail, which will lead to the loss of data that needs to be restored somehow. This article will explain the basic... Read the article
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- November 4, 2016
Android Data Recovery: How Things Work
In the previous article we began to consider the theme of the operating system Android. The first thing to know about Android is it’s actually Linux. Okay, it’s more than “just” Linux, with lots of stuff on top of the bare OS, but all the low-level stuff in all Android devices is handled by Linux. Why does it matter? Two things. First, when it comes to internal storage, Linux uses a range of proprietary file systems such as “ext4” and “f2fs”... Read the article
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- October 21, 2016
Recovering Data from Android Smartphones
Did you know that there are more mobile devices active than humans alive? Back in 2014, the number of active smartphones, tablets and wearables surpassed world population with 7.4 billion devices and only 7.2 billion humans. 59% of those mobile devices are running Android. With some 200,000 new Android devices activated daily, we’re witnessing a rapid growth of the Android platform. With the mobile Windows OS (whatever Microsoft names it) still... Read the article
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- April 1, 2016