Field Storage Exposed to Dust and Vibration: Protect the Data
Protect sensor readings, site records, images and configuration files when field storage is exposed to dust, moisture, vibration or interrupted power.
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Data recovery articles
Technical guides on data loss prevention, storage failures and controlled data recovery methods.
Sensitive SSD Data in Specialist Equipment
Preserve confidential records from an SSD built into specialist equipment, including its access context, audit trail, application formats and machine settings.
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Moving an external hard drive safely: risks
Practical steps to protect and evaluate an external hard drive after moving house: impact, moisture, packing boxes, power supplies, USB enclosures and data recovery.
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RAID After ransomware: how to preserve data
Practical steps to respond to ransomware on RAID or a server: protect disks, avoid rebuilding, isolate backups and document the incident.
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Laptop SSD faults and stored data recovery
An explanation of why a laptop SSD can become inaccessible after impact, heat, sleep, interrupted updates, encryption or TRIM, and which actions to prevent.
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Scientific laboratories: how to preserve data
How to reduce data loss in scientific laboratories: instrument drives, exports, formats, backups, measurement chains and technical assessment.
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Field measurement storage: protecting the data
An explanation of why field measurement data may be lost through power faults, humidity, drive or memory card damage, incomplete exports and gaps in continuity.
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Modern macs: soldered ssds, encryption and data recovery
An explanation of why recovery on a modern Mac is more delicate: soldered SSDs, security chips, encryption, user accounts, logical failure and actions to prevent.
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Transported USB flash drives: impact damage and data loss
Why a frequently carried USB flash drive can become unreadable after impact, bending, heat, connector damage or an interrupted write, and how to respond safely.
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Recovering CCTV footage safely from dvrs, nvrs and IP cameras
A measured approach for recovering CCTV footage from DVRs, NVRs, IP cameras, surveillance drives and associated volumes without worsening the storage.
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Recovering data from CCTV RAID, NAS and VMS systems
The risks involved in recovering CCTV footage from RAID, NAS and VMS servers when surveillance recordings become inaccessible.
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Proprietary DVR and NVR formats: when CCTV video cannot be read
Why DVR and NVR files may not play on a computer, and how streams, indexes and timestamps can be reconstructed without alteration.
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