We have had three installments on RAID 5 failure and how the XOR operation gives us insight into discovering the stripe size and drive order for an array. Understanding the next installment is critical to the entire method of reverse engineering a RAID 5 configuration. We understand that when we use an XOR operation on the […]
Recovering Data from a corrupt VHD VM
It is never a question of if, but when, something on a computer system fails. Either from poor programming, faulty hardware, or an outside occurrence such as a power loss, there is always the lingering possibility that data is going to be lost. This outlook, philosophy if you will, is the mantra of those who […]
RAID 5 Recovery and XOR Mathematics in NTFS 5 Part 3
In this installment we will explore the practical use of XORing within the context of a RAID 5 recovery. Although the use of this math function in and of itself does not constitute RAID recovery, there are attributes of the mathematics that lend itself to data signatures that can then be used to acquire the […]
