Case File Library · Volume Sixteen

Cases 751–800

Volume Sixteen opens a new set of case files. Forty-Seven more real recoveries: a drive whose USB port was soldered to the only board that could decrypt it, an owner who kept a stick in a television without knowing the television was writing to it, a card formatted by mistake and then shot over, a scan that listed every file and opened none of them, a photographer's session folder still sitting there and empty, an array reinitialised by one wrong click with a synchronisation quietly overwriting the survivors, a Mac whose password was correct and refused, and a structural engineer with thirteen years of drawings behind a connector that came away with part of the board attached. Every case is a genuine enquiry, its identifying details changed or removed, its lesson kept whole. Every recovery names its instruments: the ACE Lab PC-3000 Express with Data Extractor and PC-3000 Flash with Spider Board, MRT Ultra, Atola TaskForce 2 and Atola Insight Forensic, DeepSpar USB Stabilizer 10Gb and RapidSpar, the Rusolut Visual NAND Reconstructor, Flash Extractor, Passware Kit Forensic, and OSForensics. The volume closes on the enquiry that did everything right.