Case studies

Case studies


Kingston microSD card recovery with Phison dynamic XOR

Here is a case with an unusual solution. 
In most cases, the Logical Block size is two times bigger than the physical block size.
But in this case, the Logical block is three times smaller.
For the Dynamic XOR, this is very essential. 
This movie shows how to change the block size and how to recover data with Visual NAND Reconstructor from Rusolut:






How to find a XOR key for the Sandisk controller

The process of XOR key search for the Sandisk controllers is different from the standard one. The decision about XOR key compatibility is taken by  the Service Area descrambling. This video shows how to perform this search:




Thank You for watching, 
Lukasz Pietrzykowski, Rusolut Team
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