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Baking SSDs: The SSD oven trick

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 12:00:05 +0000

This sounds crazy, but sometimes baking SSDs fixes them if they break. This process causes the solder to reflow. So here’s how to do the SSD oven trick. Why baking SSDs or the SSD oven trick works I enjoy MacGyver-style

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Handling data recovery

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:41:42 +0000

I took a strange phone call from the field today, asking for advice about creating policies and procedures on data recovery. There’s no easy answer. I don’t like trying to create those types of policies and procedures, because there are

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Proper care of digital flash media

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:18:33 +0000

This is inspired by a comment I received a couple of days ago. It’s one of those questions that if you know to ask, you probably already know the answer. But I’ll say it anyway. No, it’s not OK to

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My first experience with data recovery

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:47:36 +0000

It was 1997. I was working my first full-time job, and my phone rang with my first crisis. “What happened to the K drive?” the caller asked. I glanced over at my network drive cheat sheet, which listed all of

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Recovering files from found.000

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:54:25 +0000

Windows stores orphan files in a directory called found.000 with a .chk extension. It’s possible to recover data from those orphans. Here’s how to recover chk files, or recover files from found.000. Identify the problem There’s a chance you may

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