Analyzing RAID parity
Last time I discussed how to find the RAID data offset for a SNAP OS 4.x RAID handler. To put it briefly it was just a simple matter of finding Cylinder Group zero on the first drive in the array and back tracking 48 sectors. Once the RAID data...
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If you are in this business long enough you will see everything, or will you? Two weeks ago I received a SNAP RAID OS 4.x for recovery. I have done a lot of these and I am pretty familiar with the data offsets, how the drives are setup, and where...
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Read the story »Analyzing RAID parity
Last time I discussed how to find the RAID data offset for a SNAP OS 4.x RAID handler. To put it briefly it was just a simple matter of finding Cylinder Group zero on the first drive in the array and back tracking 48 sectors. Once the RAID data...
Read the story »Finding SNAP OS 4.x RAID Data Offset
If you are in this business long enough you will see everything, or will you? Two weeks ago I received a SNAP RAID OS 4.x for recovery. I have done a lot of these and I am pretty familiar with the data offsets, how the drives are setup, and where...
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This article and video will show you how to use a USB enclosure to slave a laptop hard drive. Many times laptop - notebook hard disk drives come in here that we are able to recover with data recovery software. This video will help you use a USB enclosure...
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Last time I discussed how to find the RAID data offset for a SNAP OS 4.x RAID handler. To put it briefly it was just a simple matter of finding Cylinder Group zero on the first drive in the array and back tracking 48 sectors. Once the RAID data...
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If you are in this business long enough you will see everything, or will you? Two weeks ago I received a SNAP RAID OS 4.x for recovery. I have done a lot of these and I am pretty familiar with the data offsets, how the drives are setup, and where...
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Last week Samsung announced that it will be mass producing their high capacity laptop hard drives. Their Spinpoint series has either high capacity or high speed, whichever is more important to the individual consumer. Some day soon they will have the...
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