Call for Fundraiser Donors.
As some of you may know I’m a rock climbing fanatic. My mentor and friend Nate McKenzie of Ascent Climbing is having a fund raiser to send at least two people to Paradox Ice - North Conway. Paradox Sports enables…
Another Outstanding Testimonial
Thank you so much for recovering our daughter's data. The flashdrive held her portfolio of work, which she needed for grad school apps & job searches. Your service was truly a life saver. Gratefully, Theresa Kane (Frank's wife)
AU6987HL Page Updates
For whatever reason transactional update blocks are ignored by Alcor Micro assemblers. These updates hold the last modifications written to the device that weren’t committed to a full block. Controllers use these blocks in their wear leveling/garbage collection routines to…
Format your flash drive as FAT32
Many flash controllers (UFD, SD, and CF) are not optimized for NON-FAT32 filesystems. Reformatting your flash drive with a different file system (eg: NTFS or exFAT) can cause the drive to fail or degrade performance. We frequently see different encoding…
Renaming pictures by IMG sequence number
We recently had a client with an unreadable SD card containing pictures. To get the best result we performed a raw recovery which ignores the filesystem and filenames, instead recovering by file type (eg: pictures). When cameras take pictures they…
Another Happy Customer :)
We get a lot of one line testimonials but Kristi took time out of her schedule to write a pretty lengthy one so I figure why not post the full contents. [dropcap]A[/dropcap] fter taking an entire high school swim team…
Monolithic Flash Drives are the Future
[dropcap]S[/dropcap]aying monolithic flash drive to most data recovery shops will make them cringe. Why? There is no standard interface for reading the flash memory chip inside. A traditional flash drive will have a TSOP48 or maybe a LGA-52 chip flash…
Analyzing a Unrecoverable Data Recovery Case
[dropcap]E[/dropcap]very once and a rare while we encounter what I call a “statistically high number of uncorrectable sectors in one memory chip”. We recently had such a case that prevented us from recovering a client’s data. What causes this is…
What’s new at RMFD for July
Here’s the quick Run Down: New customer management system Completed migration from UPS to USPS Testing a “We’ll ship you the packaging material” program. For the last month we’ve been busy designing a implementing a new customer management system to…
Recovering data from erased or formated SD and USB media
We’ve noticed many newer Secure Digital (SD) and USB Flash drives are implementing garbage collection routines similar to solid state drives. Specifically to speed up write operations the controller will write information to a pre-allocated list of erased blocks or…