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General data retrieval techniques advice using data compass
Posted: May 26th, 2011, 14:20
by MrAndersons
I have purchased a data compass machine from salvationdata and I am having problems finding proper instructions for it. Can anyone tell me a few techniques for recovering drivers with bad sectors or corrupted data? Once I image the drive to another drive what steps should I take from there? Any kind of help would be greatly appreciated.
Re: General data retrieval techniques advice using data compass
Posted: May 26th, 2011, 15:46
by thatdellguy
If your a DC owner then the SD forum or remote tech support would be your best bet.
Re: General data retrieval techniques advice using data compass
Posted: May 27th, 2011, 1:20
by craig6928
easy to use i think
get some drives and test them out try and recover the data.
Re: General data retrieval techniques advice using data compass
Posted: June 2nd, 2011, 1:23
by Alan2
I recently purchased a Data Compass Standard. Before that I owned the File Extractor. I my opinion the stength of the Data Compass and File Extractor is the abilty to extract the important data without creating an image of the drive. This can be a big asset to extract the most important data first before attempting to image the entire drive, especially with a failing drive with bad sectors. Since the device is USB2 based, it will take forever to image a 500GB or larger drive. The device is best used for extracting selective data and not imaging drives due to the USB2 bottleneck. Salvation Data is supposed to be developing a USB3 version of the Data Compass that will have the ability to image larger drives much faster than the current USB2 version.
Alan