HDD GURU FORUMS

Atola Insight Forensic 4.1 has been released! Here are the most significant new features:

Our main efforts were put on bug fixing to make Atola Insight Forensic more stable and reliable, and version 4.1 includes over 100 fixes and improvements.

New Features

• File recovery: it is now possible to create an imaging session that would include sectors of selected files
  
• Imaging: new Metadata-only imaging mode allows copying of absolutely minimum amount of data for file browsing to work, this allows for imaging of specific files
  
• Imaging: Settings can now be saved into custom presets
  
• File Recovery: 500% speed increase when working with NTFS partitions
  
• File Recovery: Deleted file recovery on NTFS partitions
  
• File Recovery: Filter files by status (All Files, Fully Imaged, Partially Imaged)
  
• File Recovery: Search now supports regular expressions, added new presets (documents, pictures, video etc)
  
• File Recovery: 20% speed increase when generating file lists
  
• Imaging, Disk Editor: when viewing sectors, known metadata will be automatically parsed into a human-readable form
  
• Device Utilities: added Device Features: AAM, APM, Read Look Ahead, Volatile Write Cache, Write-Read-Verify
  
• Generate Bad Sectors: added the possibility to write custom data into bad sectors
  
• Password and Firmware Recovery: support for Hitachi drives via Atola SATA-IDE adapter (contact us if you bought your system before November 2014 to receive the adapter for free)
  
• User manual is now shipped with the software in pdf form and is available from the Help menu
  
• User interface tweaks for better experience on Microsoft Surface Pro 3 tablets

Bugfixes

• Automatic Checkup: Significant PCB diagnostics improvements, Insight was misdiagnosing certain drives as "bad PCB"
  
• Imaging: Head map was not correctly built on certain WD and Seagate hard drive models
  
• File Recovery: a few fixes in the File Map creation
  
• Case Management: Case printing was slow when there were too many reports to print
  
• Case Management: Some exported reports contain invalid links to specific log files
  
• Imaging: Read Long (discard ECC) did not work correctly on IDE drives
  
• Firmware Recovery: Insight failed to read Firmware map on some newest Western Digital drives when ATA password protection is enabled
  
• File Recovery: better support for keyboard navigation
  
• Case Management: Assigning a case number now works properly for drives with invalid characters in Model, Firmware revision and Serial number
  
• USB flash media identification has been improved
  
• Dozens of other fixes and stability improvements

Read more at Atola Technology blog

No love for AI 3.X?

Actually Atola Insight v3.4 update will come out in November.

However, please consider that on June 1, 2015 we will stop releasing software updates for the following products:
- Atola Insight with DiskSense USB
- Atola Insight with DiskSense Ethernet
- Atola Imager

We offer upgrade program with discounts. More information about that can be found at http://old-insight.atola.com

Thank you for the quick reply Vitaliy. I did just recently read about the EOL for my Atola. I will have to see about the upgrade program.

Shawn