Flash Extractor from Soft Center very good tool to use for these type of jobs

but you have to learn how to use it


i think these days there not much to be made in recovery of a flash drives.
as they become more encrypted hardware.


salvation data flash doctor dead as a Dodo

but i did notice on the Chinese market there is a new flash doctor out
only for china release

Well all tools are going to be a challenge, Ive seen the same comments for each of the major tools. If you are going to do flash in anything other than a hobby, and want to do all types, flash, monolith, encrypted, SSD hard drives, problem chips, fixing broken chips etc, then you must dedicate LOTS of time. Even the brilliant guys spend lots of time.


As nearly all memory is going to be some kind of flash for foreseeable future it makes sense to concentrate a lot of effort on it, and encryption is do-able with enough time and effort.. meaning you will make money if you tackle it the right way

They are updating their stuff this year, I have learnt to never say never...
many other flash recovery tools are seeing similar types of posts in their forums, as memory gets harder. I can only imagine how hard R&D for a tool to do flash would be these days.. how many engineers in the world do you think would have both the skills necessary, AND the desire to work in designing recovery? I don't think it would need more than 2 hands to count


Yes, lets all cross our fingers it was not just an updated fls.ini, and a paint job I am champing at the bit to take a look at v7

The problem as I see it is that people are not sharing info. I have worked about 30 hours this week on top of my bread and butter IT job to try and figure monolith a bit, struggling with not professional logic analyser(OLS) and to work with these tiny little bits of joy... not easy, but as everyone is so damn scared to help anyone these days in case someone half way around the world may somehow steal a $100 case from them(wait, what?) I am re-inventing the damn wheel. I do enjoy it, but my wife aint happy with the 4am bedtimes and leave no room for, ah, other, ah more(arguably) enjoyable things

hhmm I see Im rambling again, must be lack of sleep!!

people tend to not want to pay these days on flash recovery

we sold up everything and got out of the recovery side

at some point encrypted is going to come where there is no way to recovery the information.

we could recovery encrypted information by reverse engineering.
but not that easy and not worth the money or cost involved



salvation do have a new flash doctor for the china market and its not a updated fls.ini file with a nice paint job lol

looks a very good tool for sure but will it see the english market i dont think so.

problem is device sold in china no issue you talk with a engineer in Chinese
because of the English side its very hard for them to input it into programming

so that why they are more likely keep the chinese market alive
rather then the other side

Thanks for the info craig6928,
I hope they do give it to us... Ill even take the Chinese version and learn Chinese as it would probably take the same amount of time to learn flash recovery.. an hour a night chinese and an hour DR...

I come from China, I use the tool is FE, from early 2009 until now, I have five sets of FE tools. Every day a large number of FLASH medium for me to recover, if you believe me, choose FE, it really is a good tool.