Data Recovery and Disk Utilities Forum @R-TT

We don't charge anything for the evaluation, but if it was cleared by T.R.I.M. running on the system there is nothing we'd be able to do.

Also, our lab is scheduled to be shut down for a few weeks in January, so we wouldn't even be able to look at it until the end of next month at this point. We're all going to be out of the country.

@ Data-Medics, I haven't had any luck with the recovery so far. I'm assuming you're with data-medics.com? How much would it cost for you guys to take a look at this thing?

[quote="Guest"]Is that true if it was a "quick" format? Because that's what I did. I think I'm getting fairly close to the right parameters. Below is a recovered image. The top 1/10 of the image came out but the rest is corrupt. I'm going to give that parameter instructional a shot over the weekend. Thanks for the help so far guys.[/quote]
TRIM can be invoked at any time after the system has freed disk space. Be it file deletion or disk format.

If TRIM trimmed it out, nope. No way to recover zero'ed out flash memory. Might be able to pull some random sector chunks left over from the wear leveling patterns, but that'll be useless for data recovery. Perhaps a bit of forensics to prove a crime, but not enough to have useful data.

Is that true if it was a "quick" format? Because that's what I did. I think I'm getting fairly close to the right parameters. Below is a recovered image. The top 1/10 of the image came out but the rest is corrupt. I'm going to give that parameter instructional a shot over the weekend. Thanks for the help so far guys.


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[quote="Data-Medics"]Ah, seeing those screenshots is very telling. Sandisk doesn't make any HDDs but they do make SSDs. If you formatted the SSDs it is very likely that TRIM zeroed out the blocks after the format. Try looking at the data of one of these corrupt files and see if it's just full of zeros.[/quote]
That's right! That slipped from me. Sure. I don't even know if a highly professional data recovery specialist can recover the data.

Ah, seeing those screenshots is very telling. Sandisk doesn't make any HDDs but they do make SSDs. If you formatted the SSDs it is very likely that TRIM zeroed out the blocks after the format. Try looking at the data of one of these corrupt files and see if it's just full of zeros.

Actually, you need to find a correct offset for the RAID. This article may help you to find it: [url=http://www.r-tt.com/Articles/Finding_RAID_parameters/]Finding RAID parameters[/url]. It's about RAID5, but can be used for RAID0.

So it is RAID 0 according to the BIOS. I was able to get that it's 128 kb block size from it. Now I'm not sure what to select from "Block order" and "Number of rows". I tried scanning again with default settings and 128 kb block size and the drive shows up as green now. However, anything I recover from it is still corrupted.

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If it's just a 2 drive RAID 0 it shouldn't take me more than 5 min to determine the settings for you if you'd like. PM me and I can probably take a quick look for you.