Cracking Monolithic’s
I've seen a lot of unrecoverable Kingston monolithic flash drives lately. It appears to be due to a bad retention clip design on the DataTraveler G2 and G3 drives. The drives typically overheat or show up as a phantom drive…
PNY Pro Elite and Professional Data Recovery
After two long years of on and off R&D we finally developed a solution for recovering data from failed PNY Pro Elite and PNY Professional SD cards. These cards use a monolithic flash chip with a very fine pitch making…
We Can NOT recover Samsung MicroSD cards
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]his may come as shock considering most data recovery companies brag about what they can recover (even if they really can’t). The market is flooded with these garbage Samsung MicroSD cards, they last three to six months and die. Why?…
Awesome Thank You Letter from Paradox Sports
Back in January we donated our revenue for a few days to Paradox Sports via the CT Adaptive Scholarship to raise money to send a few people to Paradox Ice - North Conway. I was going through out mail and…
BGA-132 Adapter
We fabricated a BGA-132 adapter with support for 8CE's for our NAND Reader so we can recover media that use BGA-132 chips. Pretty Cool.
Miscellaneous Ramblings
Some Miscellaneous thoughts/ramblings for the month of January for anyone that's interested. 1. Got some great thank you email’s this week. Jeremy, I can't thank you enough for saving Olivia from getting a F in this course. We really appreciate…
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…