Recent content by S Haran

Running chkdsk on a failing drive is asking for trouble. It is best to first check the SMART status of the drive with a tool like CrystalDiskInfo. If your data has high value seek help from a pro. Or at a minimum try to make a clone image of the drive and do your data recovery work from the...

I'm partial to Debian and lately I've been recommending Kali Linux. You can use it to make a bootable USB flash drive. In data recovery it is best to avoid the USB layer and connect the drives via SATA. When you get Linux running show the drives and partitions with command: lsblk -o...

First know that Synology uses Linux Software RAID aka mdadm under the hood. And their Hybrid RAID is just an LVM extension on top of that. So where the Synology is built on Linux performing recovery work from Linux will give the best results. Therefore it helps if you have basic Linux skills...