HaQue wrote:
a great place to start, with $0 down is over at rusolut website. they have put out 2 VNR books which double as manuals for the tool, but is packed with the basics of Flash. You will not find any documentation superior to this, and will need to spend quite a bit of time studying it. go through both PDF's, and read all the case studies on the site. anything that doesn't make sense, well come back here and clarify until it does.
The cases in there I would call easy and straightforward cases, which is what's needed for manuals, but there is MUCH more intricacies in flash, almost to the point where every device is different.
If you want to start right now doing customer cases, get a reader such as Soft Center and outsource the dumps. get the outsourcee(outsourcer?) to explain how they recovered.
The VNR tool is the only one that allows you to research dumps in a meaningful way, and has the backup of people that know flash extremely well, and are working full steam developing their tool as number one focus.
IMHO, if you decide to wait doing customers until you have done enough of your own test cases... you never will do customers!
but stop 1 on the Flash highway is Rusolut.com
Thanks HaQue. I have seen those manuals as I have been searching high and low for info. I skimmed through the first one but yes, I really need to dig deeper into it. Going back to your suggestion (dumping and outsourcing), if I were to buy the SC-FE reader and adapters only (no software), it would still cost ~1000$ whereas for ~2000$ with VNR, I could get the VNR software and a wide assortement of adapters (although only 2 have a socket). While more expensive, it would appear the VNR is better value.
One more thing, I notice that no one has mentioned PC3000 yet. They have a wide assortment of adapters and are the leader in HDD/SSD. Does anyone use this tool regularly?
Thanks again...this is really helpful. I'm willing to invest time and energy, I just want to avoid the error that HaQue details earlier in this thread.