Data Recovery Classes & Training
We are
teaching a WEEK long Data Recovery Class which covers physical rebuilds of
drives, platter replacements and Headstack replacements. It also covers logical
rebuilds of Windows, Mac's and Linux and Solid State Drives. If
you are interested in taking a class from please click
here for more info!
NEW! DISTANCE LEARNING COURSE with Equipment!
Data Recovery Videos & Whitepapers *NEW!! MY HEAD ASSEMBLY REPLACMENT VIDEO* *SOLID STATE DRIVES AND HOW THEY WORK* Advanced Data Recovery Presentation! Hard Drive Data Recovery Whitepaper PDF. or sample
ToorCon06
YouTube Video in 7 Parts (limited to 10 mins) |
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Interviews with Scott A. Moulton Interview on DL.TV with Patrick Norton
Interview on Computer America-072407
I appear on Computer America
Radio monthly |
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Speaking Conferences and Venues Phreaknic.info 12 - 2008 University of Florida ITSA Day Oct 8th 2008 HTCIA Louisiana October 16th 2008 Defcon 16 - August 2008 - Two Speeches Shmoocon 2008 Outerz0ne 2008 SummerCon 2008 ICLE 2008 ShmooCon on March 23rd 2007 CyberCrime Summit on March 20th 2007 Toorcon #8 on October 1st, 2006 University of Florida ITSA Day Nov 8th 2006 ICLE Ga on Oct 13th, 2007 Defcon 15 on August 3rd 2007 Summercon on August 25th 2007 Toorcon #9 on Oct 19-23 2007 Defcon 14 - August 4th, 2006 Security Opus on October 5th, 2006 |
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Why I Don't Recommend Spinrite on my Software List! I get many questions about why I left
off Spinrite on my recommendations of recovery software. I specifically
leave off Spinrite because under the strictest terms it is not data
recovery software. Almost every single data recovery package knows, and
will warn you not to write the data back to the original source drive.
Data Recovery/Forensics software almost always recover from a source to
a destination.
Spinrite does
not do that, it refreshes the surface and controls reads to get the
maximum amount of data from the sectors and then puts it back down on
the same drive.
Response to Google Study on Hard Drive
Failures Well after reading the Google study, I have to question the containment of the drives or the way temperature was measured. I have to say that I am 100% convinced that temperature does indeed affect hard drives. The question at this point is how and when. I have had hard drives in with obvious heat damage, arms and heads deformed due to heat. I have chips that are burnt and physical damage to the platters caused by heat. I know temperature does greatly affect recovery <--- Click for More --->
Problems with Vista doing data Recoveries:
I am testing Vista with some of my
recoveries and I have found some major problems mounting and using big
hard drives in Vista.
For example, I have a 750gig NTFS formatted drive with several thousand
small files on it. XP sees it just fine and no problems. However when
plugged in Vista it first pauses. |
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Matching Serial Numbers on Hard Drives
This link is where I keep track of documentation on how each hard drive needs to be matched for a working donor drive. I get this any where I can, use it if you can, and if you happen to find something out please let me know so I can add it to the collection! <--- Click for More ---> Recovery software Links: <--- Click Here --->
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