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 […]
Data Loss – Logical vs Physical Data Recovery
As a data recovery company, the calls we receive are common situations in which a user has lost the ability to access their data. In most cases, the reason the user cannot access their data is because the hard drive or solid state drive has mechanically or physically failed. Outside of RAID recovery, we typically […]
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 […]
