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Hurry and take an advantage of the newly released Atola Insight 3.0!

One of Atola’s most significant releases ever, Insight 3.0, has been launched already! You will be pleasantly surprised by its many improvements and the increased opportunities it offers. With Atola Insight 3.0 take advantage of even more capabilities! Just take a look at the considerable number of improvements created for Insight 3.0. You can find the full list of improvements on the change log. New interface for effective work with 2 HDD In general, the data recovery process deals with both a source disk and a target disk or an image file to make a sector-by-sector copy. Our new interface is specifically designed to ensure more efficient operations between source Read more…

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago
Atola insight

Bad Sector Recovery

Hard drives are built in a way so that they never return unreliable data. This means that if the hard drive cannot guarantee 100% accuracy of the data requested, it will simply return an error and will never give away any data at all. Understanding Bad Sectors General causes for bad sector formation are physical or magnetic corruption. Physical corruption is easy to understand – it occurs when there is physical damage done to the media surface. Magnetic corruption occurs when hard drive miswrites data to a wrong location. While the latter may seem to be less damaging, it is actually as dangerous as physical damage, since miswritten data may Read more…

By Dmitry Postrigan, ago
Data recovery

Data Recovery & Forensic Cases

How do you start your working day? Data recovery (DR) and Forensic specialists are highly known because of their workplace, aren’t they? A computer with the case removed and wires sticking out, piles of hard disc drives with various stickers and labels, and more wires is typically a confusing, disorganized mess. You have just come to work and you are still sleepily looking towards your plans for the day, and suddenly, the telephone rings! It’s your biggest client, and he is asking lots of questions. But how do you keep all these data in your mind? Of course, you can have notes somewhere, but is that really useful and effective? Read more…

By Dmitry Postrigan, ago
Atola Bandura

Atola Bandura 2.0 – your time saving solution

Atola Bandura is one of the best solutions for the data recovery market as it is a powerful imager, wiper and tester for professional use. Every new release means fresh and well thought-out improvements, and incredible opportunities. What’s new in Bandura 2.0? Here are the latest firmware changes: Speed of imaging, wiping, and repairing increased up to 30%; More strong support of SSD disks attached to Target port; Correct DCO and HPA processing for disks larger than 2 TB; New complete icons on buttons. Atola Bandura 2.0 hardware unit has the following improvements: More physical security to SATA- ports; New touchscreen with a strong resistance to ESD; Renewed hardware platform Read more…

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago
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Atola Bandura. Best results in imaging, wiping, and testing!

Looking for professional Imager, Wiper, and Tester? Tired of slow imaging and complicated usability? Atola Bandura is the perfect solution for you! The fastest tool in the market both with the brilliant ease of use! Don’t miss an exclusive interview with Atola Bandura project manager and lead developer, Vitaliy Mokosiy. You will learn history of the product, case studies, client feedback, technical details and many more. Be the first one to find out more about Atola Bandura! Follow the link to read the article. Note: According to our agreements with Hakin9, we can post only the Teaser edition. If you want to read the full edition, please register here.

By Dmitry Postrigan, ago
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Interested on Forensics issue?

I’m happy to inform you that we’ve started our cooperation with Hakin9, an IT-security magazine. In the article you will find our offers and recommendations, solutions and detail information on how our products are functional and efficient. All products belong to the category of advanced and smart technology, at the same time being easily accessible and user-friendly. We treat our customers with the utmost care, so all tools are carefully designed with the use of the best existing technology. Now you can solve even the most difficult problem in Forensics so easy – just choose an Atola product and start to use. Want to learn more reading the full edition, Read more…

By Dmitry Postrigan, ago
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What’s new in Atola Insight 2.4

Introducing Imaging Target Concept With the help of imaging targets, it is now possible to efficiently image a hard drive using multiple sessions. During each session, the Atola Insight only copies sectors that were not copied during any previous session. As the imaging process goes on, the operator can adjust the copy approach and change various settings for each session in order to maximize data extraction. Data from the multi-session imaging function is then used to aid the file recovery process. The Atola Insight pinpoints any files that are incomplete or contain bad sectors and report them to the user. Read without ECC Correction for all LBA48 Range Imaging can Read more…

By Dmitry Postrigan, ago
Atola Bandura

Imaging using Read Long in Bandura

Imaging is the main Atola Bandura feature. This is the reason why it has been unstoppably improved since the very first release. This time we added the new setting to the firmware update 1.1.5 allowing to apply Read Long command for reading bad sectors and getting some data from them on last pass. Every sector read by Read Long is marked in Imaging log with a corresponding message:

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago