Data Recovery Case Study for Data Compass

Desktop/Laptop/Server/Others： Laptop
HDD/flash/SSD/Others： Western Digital 2.5
Storage Media Intro: Western Digital Blue 2.5 Model WD4000BEVT-00ZAT0
Failure Symptoms：
1. Not detected in Bios
2. The drive start and then stop
Failure Causes： The drive was beaten
Data Recovery Process (Tools Used, Tips or Tricks Used)：
1. Diagnose the drive using hddoctor for western digital.
2. Confirmation problems with the head to start the drive.
3. Open the drive in the clean room and unlock [...]

Data Recovery Tools Case Study for IDE Cable

We received an America customer’s inquiries, he told us when he used data recovery tools DC to image the speed is too slowly. He tested a healthy HDD, about 5GB data, began to copy by data recovery tools DC, after a few hours only copy a little data. Apparently, this is very unusual. So, this [...]

Rebuild MBR in shadow disk with data recovery hardware DC- part 2

Then we need to set the shadow disk, connect the shadow disk and select it in data recovery hardware DC :

Initial the shadow disk first:

After the initial finished, enable the shadow disk:

The next step we need to write the partition info from backup DBR to original DBR, turn to 63 sector in DC panel, compared [...]

Rebuild MBR in shadow disk with data recovery hardware DC- part 1

A master boot record (MBR), or partition sector, is the 512-byte boot sector and is the first sector (”LBA Sector 0″) of a partitioned data storage device. It is used as boot the operation system, recording the partition table and identifying individual disk media.
If the MBR is broken, the disk could be detected by the [...]

Add new RawfileType in data recovery of DC and FLASH

Recovery by Type (RAW Scan) is a very useful function in data recovery tools  Data Compass and Flash, especially in data reocvery tools Flash doctor, for sometimes we couldn’t find the partition out, so RAW scan is the only method for data recovery:
 
RAW Scan has included data recovery of most common file types and you could [...]

Recover data from drive with bad sectors

Today we get a typical case from our customer, that is, part of the data recovered from one Maxtor drive which exist bad sectors is unusable.
This customer says that he has recovered the data, but quite a number of the files are unusable. We think that this may be caused by bad sectors and should [...]

Case Study on New Features of Data Compass

Case Study on New Features of Data Compass

Data Compass has been updated to version 6.0 and there are mainly three new features added, which are File Recovery by Type, Access to HD Doctor and File Classification by Type and Date. This article is a case study of those features.

File Recovery by Type (RAW SCAN)

In normal [...]

Drives Set for the Shadow Disk

Drives Set for the Shadow Disk

In this article,we will introduce the Drive Set function for the shadow disk.A good combination can be accomplished with half the effort.

A question for ShadowDisk

A question for ShadowDisk

When CLONING – IMAGING patient drive, Do you suppose to select SHADOW DISK for DESTINATION in DC EXPLORER?

One of my clients sent me an email today,I think there is some misunderstanding between the shadow disk and the destination disk.

SA Emulation in Data Compass for Hitachi Drive

Last day i got a case from one of our client.The hitachi drive can not be detect in the bios,that is to say,the data on the drive can not be accessed normally. Data Compass shall be used to recover data in this case.
We can see from the pic that the data can’t be accessed.

Obviously,the MBR,the [...]