10/25/2018 0 Comments Cnw Data Recovery Serial![]() ![]() I wanted tell everyone about a newer piece of data recovery software I have been using/ testing. It is “.” I have been very impressed by the software! This software has a whole lot of functionality and power “under the hood.” I have used it in a few cases/recoveries so far. Its results have been most impressive. For the readers information, my comparrison is to my other software such as Encase, X-ways, R-studio, and an assortment of other data recovery products that I have tested that are targeted at consumers and techs. Encase and X-ways are obviously much more mature pieces of software with a great deal of emphasis on forensic features. Here we review CnW Recovery. A data recovery program which has some innovative new features such as fragmented MP4 video recovery from flash media, and other features. CnW Recovery is a program to recover and restore data from all CDs, DVDs, hard drives and memory chips. It recovers data from damaged and corrupted disks, memory. Most of the “data recovery” software targeted at the consumer market is not very powerful or versatile; and they milk their customers for every dime. (NTFS version, FAT version, CD-ROM versionon and on) With most of the consumer data recovery products the end user is not getting much for their money in results or functionality. With CNW Recovery there has been a total departure from the what is the “norm” in consumer data recovery software. This software is a very powerful piece of data recovery software at reasonable cost. Currently a 30-day license is only $19.99! That is a super deal in the data recovery world. The software actually functions at three different levels. These descriptions are mine for the reader, not the software authors mind you. Wizard mode: This is where the average consumer would work. The software opens up the a screen that scans your computer for currently existing media. It asks you to choose what type of media you are working with. You choose from floppy, hard drive, dd image, cd-rom, flash, DVD, Jazz, or Zip drive. The software then walks the user through either an extraction of files or creating an image of the drive. The wizard mode might be somewhat confusing to the computer novice, but if you just trust the software and go through the process it would result in good recovery work. Manual Mode: The manual mode of the software allows the user to go directly to the various functions. The major ones are Recover, Partition, Image, View, Properties, and Log. The recovery mode is where most of the work will be done for data recovery. This allows the user to use the File Table to recover files. Partition allows the user to locate the partitions and file tables. Partition also includes the ability to do repair operations on these structures, although I haven’t had the opportunity to test that feature. View allows the user to see the contents of the drive in a HEX editor sort of view. Properties displays fundamental information about the device. The log actually provides a print out of all the file names recovered or mapped for recovery including the physical location, parent directory, parent directory location, short file name, and directory path. This manual mode allows the skilled computer user to do alot of very powerful data recovery. As far as data recovery work goes, it is very user friendly. Expert mode: Although not explicitly a “mode” I wanted to note this usefulness of the program. Because of how robust the log is in displaying details about the files, if you understand all the data it is delivering the expert can actually jump directly into a hex editor and use the information to start manually carving out the data. Forensic Edition: CNW is rapidly expanding the features in the forensic side of the software. While the interface to the data is much different than something like X-ways, it is still very informative. The logs and pop-ups while scanning the MFT allow a very granular view of the raw data the program in using. This provides for the investigator to have a more in-depth understanding of the data. While it is not as much of a “point and click” interface, this is actually a good thing for when you are trying to manually validate findings, educate yourself, or prepare for courtroom presentation of the evidence. Just a couple notes on what I have personally used the program to do with success.
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