RMRRegarding backwards imaging missing: I admit that this was one of our biggest mistakes; there was a lot of confusion going on about it and I have already apologized many times. If you need the reverse imaging, please use an older version (you can download all versions including the very first one. Please PM me if you do not know the URL for downloads).
PS. I have added a more obvious link to our Twitter page (it is now at the top right corner on Atola.com website)
CreatorQuote:
As I said you cannot compare these tools because Atola is product developed by one guy. pc3k has been developing more than 15 years as I remember and there is a lot of people who develop and improve this tool.
Just wanted to point out that we have
much more than one guy working here at Atola
. I do respect the 15 year work of so many people, but I do not see why we (or someone else) cannot create an excellent data recovery tool?
faltherThank you once again for your comments and suggestions! I will go over every item that you have mentioned and see what we can improve. I can comment on two things right away:
- File recovery for FAT and Linux / Mac file systemsFile system recovery is under constant development. It will, however, take quite long time for us to develop FAT and other file systems support; file system recovery is probably one of the most complicated/challenging parts of the software.
.. and I wonder - is it the highest erasure speed possible?Sure, you can just use the Security Erase; nothing can be faster than that. Simply lock the drive with some password and then use that same password to launch Security Erase. The drive will go into BUSY for a while (until it finishes erasing itself). If the process is interrupted, you will have to either retry the erase or unlock the drive with the password you used to initially lock it.
Alternatively, you can just plug the drive directly into the motherboard, and then use Insight to fill/erase it. This way you can reach maximum speed as well.
Also, with the latest release (1.3.5), you can select what you'd like to be written onto destination media when source encountered a read error. Therefore, there is little need of erasing hard drives prior to imaging.