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We are going to PFIC in Salt Lake City

Atola Technology is going to PFIC in Salt Lake City. Visit our booth #16 at Paraben’s Forensic Innovations Conference in Salt Lake City, November 13 and 14th. This annual educational conference showcases the latest technical advances being made in the fields of Law, Forensics and eDiscovery. Come and get a personal demonstration of Atola’s next generation of forensic data recovery software and hardware innovations or simply come to ask questions of Atola’s C.E.O. and world-leading expert in forensic data recovery and hard drive engineering, Dmitry Postrigan.

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago
Atola Disk Recycler

Atola Disk Recycler 1.8.4 released

We have just released a software update for our Atola Disk Recycler product. The update is available for download: https://recycler.atola.com/download.html Change log New features: Added option for audio notifications when script finishes Added option asking for disk model and serial if it doesn’t get ready New Duplicate script button in Script Editor New script command Contains to analyse string values SetExtendedResult command supports color codes (ex. #AAFFAA) and influences port color Ability to change custom data folder path via Settings Recycler doesn’t require Windows administrator privileges anymore Sanitization Report for DOD wipe”, “NIST Erase”, “NIST Erase plus Verify” scripts added “Sanitization Report” template added Bugfixes: Improved script parsing and error Read more…

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago
Atola insight

Meet Atola Insight 3.1

Atola Insight 3.1 has been released with more than 70 changes. We built up many new awesome features based on revolutionary UI update in 3.0 version. Imaging: Target HEX Viewer The real time viewer of imaged data! It shows all bytes already written to a target drive during imaging. There are two modes available: Automatic with refresh interval slider Manual by means of Read sector button Improvements in Case Management We have significantly improved reporting in the Insight and we made sure everything is now being logged in finest detail. For example, each flip of the Write Protection switch on the DiskSense unit is now logged. All or only selected Read more…

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago
Business

Interview with David Foster, Memofix

We prepared the interview with one of our customers David Foster, General Manager of Memofix. Memofix is a Canadian market leader in data recovery and hard disk repair. Please tell me about your company and your current role? Memofix has been focused on computer storage devices since first being formed in 1986 to provide warranty service repairs for Seagate hard drives in Canada. So fixing hard drives really is in our blood. My  role at Memofix is 100% centered around our data recovery services. I am tasked with developing our capabilities and processes, as well as managing our day to day operations. As a small company, my role touches on all Read more…

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago
Atola Bandura

We are shutting down Bandura

We are retiring Atola Bandura, our standalone high-speed disk duplicator. If you have one, please update to the latest firmware. Do not worry, we will still fully support your Bandura if you run into any issue. Why would we cancel such a great product? Bandura was the coolest disk duplicator ever. We put a lot of effort into making it a great product, so it was hard for us to make this decision. One of the reasons why we are canceling Bandura is because when it comes to pure features, it is very similar to our flagship product, Atola Insight. Both products have the same features, which makes these products Read more…

By Dmitry Postrigan, ago
Atola Disk Recycler

Atola Disk Recycler 1.8 released

We have just released a software update for our Atola Disk Recycler product. It contains many bug fixes and several new features. You can find the full list of changes in the change log. The biggest feature of this release is the Grid View. It significantly simplifies management of many Disk Recycler units at once. If you happen to manage more than 10 units (40 ports), this feature can be much more efficient than Classic View.  

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago
Atola Disk Recycler

Bye-bye Windows XP and Vista

I would like to announce that we are dropping support for Windows XP and Vista for our products listed below: Atola Insight Atola Imager Atola Forensic Imager Atola Disk Recycler It was not an easy decision, but after weighing our options we are certain that this is the only way to ensure quality of our products in the future releases. Therefore, the upcoming software updates for the above mentioned products will not install on Windows XP or Vista anymore. Why? I know there are people who still have warm feelings about Windows XP, and I am one of them. However, recently we have found ourselves fixing quite a bit of Read more…

By Dmitry Postrigan, ago
Customer relations

Interview with Bobby Rose, Hollywood PC Repair

We would like to present the short interview with Bobby Rose, one of Atola customers. He provides DR services at Data Recovery Hollywood which is a subsidiary of Hollywood PC Repair.   Please tell me about your company and your current role? Hollywood PC Repair and Data Recovery provides flat fee data recovery services to the community in Hollywood, California.  The majority of our customers are lower income individuals who cannot afford expensive data recovery services. What is the most challenging aspect of your work? Breaking the news to customers in cases where their hard drive will require expensive clean-room recovery. How often do you use your Atola system(s) and Read more…

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago
Atola insight

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