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…
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…
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…
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…
[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…
[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…
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…
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…
Another first for Recover My Flash Drive, we reverse engineered the pin-out for the monolithic SD card MMAGF02GWMCU-PA used by PNY in their Optima SD series of SD cards. This card seems like a OEM Samsung product so its possible…
Ever wanted to know what’s inside a flash memory chip? Nothing magical, just regular silicon die but it’s still fun to look at. As far as I know we're the only data recovery company in the North America outside of…