SalvationDATA Flash Doctor Data Recovery Tool Test

Background：

In this high informatization era, the importance of data becomes more and more concerned in people’s daily life. Data security has been the reality people must confront in their daily life and work. With the rapid development of science and technology, storage device is gradually evolved from hard disk magnetic media storage to multiple storages. U Disk (Flash) is the newly born storage media. With the advantages of USB interface, smallness, portability, and low price, Flash has been widely applied in data storage and copy. In some countries, the number of U disk (Flash) chip memory chip exceeds the local population. However, due to the special storage principle and usage time limitation, the possibility for defectiveness multiplies.

August 2009, the leading data recovery solution provider—SalvationDATA announced the official release of Flash Doctor data recovery tool on August 1^st. Flash Doctor data recovery tools is specialized for data recovery from USB Pendrive, SD/CF card, etc. After release, this tool caught high attention of many professionals’ in data recovery field all over the world in a while. I am so lucky to get the sample of SalvationDATA Flash Doctor data recovery tool for testing. Then, let us to check how does this data recovery tool work and whether is it a must in flash data recovery work?

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Case Study on Flash Doctor: Data Recovery from K9F1G08-MT29F2G08AAB_C-1-1

Flash doctor is the latest data recovery tool for USB pen drive , memory stick and SD card etc developed by SalvationDATA technology. The tools used for flash storage devices’ data recovery is deferent from the first generation flash Doctor in the current market. By adopting new general algorithm, our new product can conduct data recovery with or without integrating the mode of controller chip and the quantity of chip. Compared to our counterparts, the possibility of its data recovery is advanced. Here we introduce the data recovery flow and main functions of this flash device by the following cases. Read the rest of this entry »

SalvationDATA Flash Doctor Case Study: UT161-T6G1-HY27UU088G5M- 1-1

Patient USB Basic Info:

Controller Model: UT161-T6G1
Flash Chip Model: HY27UU088G5M
Chip count: 1
Channel Count: 1

This case study will focus on the data combination and analysis by loading the existing flash task file.
Step 01: Double click the icon and open FLASHEXP.EXE, click ‘Load Task’ to load the existing task file and you will go to the ‘Data Combination’ interface.

Step 02: Click ‘Analyse’ button of the “Basic Analysis” clumn, Under ‘Chip order’, the first text box indicates “0″ as shown in the picture below, it suggests there’s only one flash chip with the current patient USB drive.

Untick ‘Data Mixed’, The single page size of the current chip is 2112 bytes, when you are configuring the ‘Location of the Service Data’ under ‘Page structure’, select ‘Within the page’.

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Understanding the structure of data “Mark” in flash memory

Here is simple case study of Flash doctor, in this case, we could study how to judge the Mark structure setting is correct and it main function.

Look at the following picture; it’s a small Flash chip, only 128MB capacity:

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Today we received a SD card from our customer. This case is quite different from the other cases we have shared with you before because there is no ID in this flash chip. We are pleased to re-appear the whole procedure in upcoming chapters.

First we need to fill out this chart ourselves. Although it won’t affect the result of the data recovery, such as how many files you can find and how much data you can recover, it’s much easier for you to handle all the cases. So try to make it correctly as possible as you can. Read the rest of this entry »