Data recovery

[[LYL]Homer]

We get the weekly "my hard drive died" posts here and I saw a resource that I hadn't heard of before last week:

http://myharddrivedied.com/presentations/
(EDIT: relinked to the 'Presentations & Information' page which has the free info.)

Here's a video excerpt of the guy who runs the site on Tekzilla:
http://revision3.com/tekzilla/hdforensics#rev3Player
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He talks about some resources that look like they go beyond GetDataBack (which I've used several times successfully). Anyway, maybe this will help someone in the future.

 

[Old Hippie]

Great read!

I read most of that @ a year ago and found it very informative.

 

[jay2472000]

Damn you LYL, the UPS man will be here literally in about 20 minutes to deliver a new case so I can expand a server and then I have to sync my newest one with it.........and now I wanna dive into this guys site and read.....lol

Good find.

 

[Bahamut]

Been doing data recovery myself for decades, it was nice to see this video and someone that actually does know their shit in action, at least briefly.

What I found funny was an earlier segment about Avidemux, which is a pretty versatile video editing/muxing/cutting tool.

What was funny? It's called AVI-Demux (pronounced as AY-VEE-EYE-Dee-Mucks) meaning it was originally designed for use with AVI files, that old Microsoft created standard that has been around for nearly 20+ years now. Demux means de-multiplexing or taking video files - which are more accurately called audio/video files - and "splitting" them into their respective parts: an audio track and a video track, where you can work with both simultaneously or separately.

It was hilarious to hear Patrick dubbing the voiceover during that segment as "AVID-ee-mux" like AY-VID (AVID is a big name in the video editing/production industry) and then ee and then mux (like "mucks").

It reminds me of many years past on TechTV when Leo Laporte would mispronounce pretty much everything, and then Patrick joined the show before TechTV and ZDNet just vanished forever because they BOTH screwed things up constantly, every episode was a riot watching them flub pretty much everything.

As noted by a Moderator at the Avidemux forums:

Avidemux means "AVI file demultiplexer" (which was the original and the only function Avidemux used to have some 6 years ago).

Ah... the good old days. Nice to see not much really changes.