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Recovering Data from Raw Volumes

Recovering Data from Raw Volumes

Recovering files and folders can be more or less difficult when dealing with healthy or even corrupted partitions. In general, such partitions are still accessible via the OS, or at least they appear as drive letters in the file manager and in data recovery tools. However, there is a special case where one may not be able to see the drive letter at all. If this happens to a partition, then most probably it’s either corrupted beyond repair, features no file system at all (e.g. after repartitioning the disk) or is formatted with a foreign file system (e.g. you attempt to access an ext3 volume in Windows).

Such partitions generally appear as “raw”, or simply appear as unallocated disk space in the Windows Disk Management console.

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Starus Recovery: Major Update of Data Recovery Tools

Starus Recovery: Major Update of Data Recovery Tools

As you may have already noticed, we have recently updated the entire range of our data recovery products including Starus Partition Recovery, File Recovery and Photo Recovery. The tools gained some weight, becoming more than twice as large compared to the earlier version. Why is that? Are we just bloating our tools with bells and whistles just for the fun of it? Read along to find out!

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New product Starus Office Recovery will help you get your documents back!

New product Starus Office Recovery will help you get your documents back!

Starus Recovery announces the release of Starus Office Recovery, a comprehensive data recovery tool to restore office document files that go missing. Employing a highly sophisticated data recovery engine for Adobe PDF files, documents and spreadsheets saved by Microsoft Office and OpenOffice applications, Starus Office Recovery delivers the safest recovery experience and best-in-class performance. An automatic integrity check performed after every disk scan session ensures that only valid and 100% recoverable document make it into the list of recoverable files.

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How I Recovered Photos from my Smartphone

How I Recovered Photos from my Smartphone

Let me confess: I’m a SONY lover. I have a SONY TV, a SONY CD player, and a SONY mobile phone. My SONY Xperia Go is splash- and dust-proof; I’ve been happy with it since I’ve bought it.

As time passes, I wanted to replace the phone. So I bought a replacement, a nice and shiny XPERIA Z3. I took out the microSD card from my old phone, inserted it into the Z3, and let it initialize the card. And… where are the photos I took with my trusty Go? Panicking, I quickly moved the card back into the Go, but all the photos I’ve shot during the past two years were gone.

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