Tutorials for specific use cases

  • Creating a disk image
    You need a disk image when you are recovering a disk with bad sectors on it. Also, a disk image is an excellent way to speed up the recovery of a slow device, like a USB 2.0 thumb drive or an SD card.
  • Simple filesystem recovery tutorial
    This tutorial applies to undelete, unformat, or recovery of the filesystem which is shown as RAW in Windows.
  • Simple NAS recovery tutorial
    To recover an off-the shelf NAS, something like an older NetGear device. This should be your starting point if you need to recover a NAS.
  • Synology NAS recovery tutorial
    To recover a Synology NAS, including Synology write-back NVMe cache.