ESET Encryption and Bitlocker We believe the following has happened: ESET Endpoint encryption was enabled on a Windows laptop. A decryption was then initiated and completed but asked for a reboot to complete. The computer was not rebooted and Bitlocker was enabled. Initially when booting up we got to the ESET encryption page which asked […]
Here are some recent photos taken of damaged phones that have come into Data Clinic for recovery. Click on the thumbnails to see the larger picture. The photos include phones that no longer work because of water damage and a severely bent phone.
In this post we look at 3 recent data recovery enquiries. The first is from a customer who requires the data extracting from an iPhone that has been submerged in water. The second is about retrieving footage from a CCTV DVR system and the final enquiry concerns a clicking iomega drive requiring data recovery. Water […]
In this post we look at Seagate hard drive recovery in London and Freecom USB drive recovery in Liverpool Data Recovery London I am using a Seagate External hard drive, about a week ago, heard beeping noises but had no idea whereabouts it came from as I always have my externals plugged into PC. I […]
We’ve recently had several enquiries from users with MetaMask accounts who have lost access to their coins and NFTs in their wallets. Fortunately, we’ve found that in many cases it is possible to recover these accounts and three examples are below – please read on for more. Case 1 – Lost seed words & re-installed […]
During late 2021, Trezor rolled out their hardware wallets: the Trezor One and the Trezor Model T. Both models came with the Passphrase feature automatically enabled. This Passphrase is sometimes referred to as the ’25th seed word’. The Passphrase feature enables an additional layer of security on top of the seed words and is requested […]
Most internet sites will tell you that it’s not possible to get access to the data on a hard drive that is encrypted with Bitlocker, but this is not true. In December 2021 we developed a process that allows us to hack the security of Bitlocker encrypted hard drives and get access to the decrypted […]
When Bitcoin first began in 2009 the value of a single BTC was next to nothing. This is how things stayed for several years until the price began to steadily increase as more and more people took an interest in Bitcoin. Because it’s value was initially so little, people did not really place that much […]
Here’s some of the enquiries we’ve had at Data Clinic recently. Seagate Freeagent Desk External Drive – London The drive is making a steady clicking sound and sounds like the disk is spinning up between clicks! It is used to back up data, is not moved and has not been subject to movement/damage. Most of […]
