Private person, schools, non-profit

As we put more and more data on digital media, and data that were printed on paper has turned digital. A failure of a hard drive/flash card/usb stick/NAS/smartphone implies that suddenly our valuable information becomes inaccessible. Datarecuperatie BVBA can help you to recover your precious memories. With over 17 years of experience we are able to solve even the most complex problems. For private customers, non-profit organizations and schools we have special prices, we offer a 21% discount on the regular price.

SME's, companies & government

As a company a lot of data is being stored digitally (hard drive, NAS, RAID, SAN). Most companies also have backups of their data, but in some cases it can go wrong. A specific folder was not in the backup or the backup failed completely. We at Datarecuperatie Ltd. can help you to recovery your precious data. We have over 30 years of experience in solving the most complex problems. We can also help you with reading out the data of old tape drives, old hard drives (that might contain important machine parameters) or even digital measuring equipment that no longer functions but can still contain important data (e.g. land surveyor tools)

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Companies that believe they qualify to be a reseller, please contact us by e-mail on sales@datarecuperatie.be

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Data recovery from mobile devices; in this case Trimble Ranger TSC3CN

2015-10-06 00:00:00
6 OCT

We were asked by a surveyor if we could recover the data from his defective Trimble Ranger. These devices work with flash memory and Windows Mobile. No data recovery company appeared to support this. A fun challenge for us again. The problem was also that the device had to continue to work, because the problem could be solved with a software upgrade (which, however, erased all data). So we had to be delicate.

We started by reading the flash memory of the Trimble. For this purpose, the memory chips were physically removed and read with an external reader. Then they were soldered back so that the device worked again. After analyzing the flash memory, it appears to work with the YAFFS2 (yet another flash file system) file system. A rather unusual file system with virtually no support.

In addition, it appears that Microsoft is not so strict with the YAFFS2 standard and has added its own modifications to it. In consultation with a colleague, this version of YAFFS2 was reverse engineered and a program was written to extract the files from the flash dumps. What is special here is that, as with all flash file systems, there is a piece of ECC code every few kilobytes.

This must also be taken into account if you want to avoid corrupt data. Ultimately, after weeks of patient programming, we were able to retrieve the data my customer needed. Wondering if we will encounter this YAFFS2 file system again. It would also be used in some Android devices.

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