Recovery Force Inc

05/13/2026

Over the past few weeks not only did we completely redo our website (www.recoveryforce.com), we created our own platform (drives.recoveryforce.com) for documenting our inventory of parts drives and made the list public for those who might be looking for something we have listed.

12/23/2025

05/16/2025

We will be closed for the whole week following Victoria day, May 19-23, 2025. Operations will resume on May 26th.

During this time, the brains of our operation, Luke and his four children will be participating in the 2025 Canadian National Racquetball Championships. The event is being hosted at by and from May 18-24.

For those who are curious, admission is free to spectators. To quickly find a player, search for their name under the schedule at the link below.

03/14/2025

We frequently get calls from clients who have encrypted their data asking if we can recover the data after they have forgotten their login password and no longer have access to the account that the encrytpion is tied to in cases like Bitlocker.

Contrary to what you see on TV, there is no back door to decrypt your drive. It would only be through brute force using an automated algorithm to try every letter, number and symbol combination that one might be able to get past the encryption. However, depending on the complexity of the password set, that process could take decades to crack and, in many cases, exceed the maximum number of failed attempts permitted on the device, such as an iPhone.

Unfortunately, most systems are now encrypting your data by default and not giving adequate warning of the imporance of storing the encryption recovery key and passwords in a safe place or how critical it is to have a solid backup that can be accessed should the encrypted device fail.

Maybe, someday in the future, someone will find a security hole for your encrtypion, so it doesn't hurt to just set it aside in hopes that such a solution can be found.

03/10/2025

Oh, the joys of SSD data recovery. Read 99.5% of a drive and still only have 24.9% of the files that the customer needs recovered.

Read 253,708,595 of 255,013,683 sectors (99.5%)
Read 7,948,520 of 8,050,424 targeted file sectors (98.7%)
Read 339 of 1,362 targeted files (24.9%)

We've got some work ahead of us to try and find a way to read more of those sectors.

03/05/2025

Once again, the scammers are out with some pretty convincing looking emails. Who knows, they might even fool me one of these days. Unfortunately for them, I know to check the originating email address and the link address right away.

If you aren't sure you understand what you are looking at, the circled email address is the originating email address from Meta. The weird gmail address is definitely not an official Meta as they would be using their own facebook.com domain.

You can also see that the submit button is linked to a non Meta web domain, as pointed to in the bottom left corner. This link shows up when the mouse pointer is hovered over the Submit button link.

Basically, you need to be extra careful when you get such emails. Do not click on the links and, if you are not 100% sure, reach out to your local IT support for assistance.

02/18/2025

We updated our list of supported NVMe and SATA SSD controllers and models for our data recovery services. A couple of things to note:

1. If it isn't listed, it doesn't necessarily mean that it isn't recoverable
2. If it is listed, it isn't a guarantee that it is recoverable

SATA and M.2 (NGFF / NVMe) SSD data recovery services. We offer some of the most affordable recovery rates in North America. Try us first!

11/21/2024

Are you storing your precious memories or important files on a flash based memory device like a USB flash drive, camera card or solid state drive (SSD)? You may want to reconsider, as these devices have a fairly short shelf life before the memory cells start to lose their charge and data corruption sets in.

If you have your files stored on a flash based device that hasn't been powered on in a long time, we suggest you plug it in and make a backup copy of your files as soon as possible. If you run into read errors, that means you need our help.

The longer you wait, the worse it will get. So, don't let it linger or you may find that it is too late and all your files and photos will be lost.

11/11/2024

We will remember.