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
Changes to NTFS Recovery in Windows 10
Windows 10 is officially out. Did anything change in the OS with regards of recovering data? Let’s have a look at the Windows 10 storage subsystem. Windows 10 NTFS Compression Changes Windows 10 still relies heavily onto the old and proven “New Technology” file system, the NTFS. Despite being 21 years old, NTFS still delivers the features it was designed for. It’s a fast, robust, feature-reach and well balanced file system. Yet, Microsoft has... Read the article
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- October 23, 2015
Windows 10 is officially out. The dust settles, life goes on. New tools get developed, and existing tools get updated for Windows 10. Thanks to the Insider program that allowed developers use Windows 10 in its pre-release form long before it was released to manufacture, we at East Imperial Soft were able to build Windows 10-compliant versions of our products before the OS official release date. As a result, all of the following products are now... Read the article
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- August 11, 2015
Using 64 GB Memory Cards in Non-Supporting Devices
Sometimes, one can use a 64 GB SD card in a device advertised as only supporting up to 32 GB SD cards. Formatting the card to FAT32 may do the trick. Or not? Read about the use of alternative file systems on SDXC cards, and learn why many data recovery tools should be never allowed to touch your 64 GB SD cards. However, if this is the case and exFAT is the only reason preventing your device from recognizing the larger memory card, there is... Read the article
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- July 3, 2015
Understanding SDXC and exFAT: The exFAT File System
The previous article explained why 64 GB SDXC cards require different hardware for accessing information. But an SDXC capable reader alone is not enough to read a 64 GB SD card. SDXC memory cards also use a different file system: exFAT. The SDXC standard adopts Microsoft’s exFAT file system as a mandatory feature. exFAT is Microsoft’s proprietary version of the FAT file system. The purpose of developing exFAT was lifting the file and... Read the article
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- May 21, 2015