{"id":46,"date":"2008-09-18T22:52:12","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T20:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.atola.com\/atola-insight-085\/"},"modified":"2023-10-06T09:01:28","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T07:01:28","slug":"atola-insight-media-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atola.com\/blog\/atola-insight-media-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Atola Insight 0.85"},"content":{"rendered":"

On September 15th, we have released a new version of Atola Insight Beta. I would like to elaborate on a new feature that we’ve added in this update. We call it Media Map<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Media Map<\/h3>\n

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The process of copying data from the source drive is very important in data recovery. But reading every sector of the drive is not always needed and sometimes can be even harmful, especially when condition of the device is getting worse with the lapse of time.<\/p>\n

Therefore, it is often reasonable to copy only the appropriate sectors \u2013 those which contain customer’s data and skip sectors which belong to the free space of the drive. Also it is often useful to manually specify regions which should or should not be copied.<\/p>\n

To make this possible, we introduce media map \u2013 the tool which has flexible means specifying sectors to be read.<\/p>\n

Filters<\/h3>\n

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Media map is specified by a sequence of filters<\/em>. Each filter can be used to include or exclude sectors from the map.<\/p>\n

Currently the following filters are available:<\/p>\n