CONTENTENGINEER® has considerable experience in recovering data from different types of memory card, or sticks as some are more widely known. In the early days of digital cameras, mobile phones and other small consumable electronic device/systems, manufacturers were renown for solely or collaboratively "inventing" new media formats. This apparent lack of standards has meant that there a large number of different media types, all with subtlely different interfaces, capacities and shapes. In fact, many systems today now accomodate many different media types for this very reason - because there are no standards.

Some of the types of memory cards analysed by the Group's Experts include:

As with removable media there are a wide range of manufacturers of memory cards/sticks, and not just the original manufacturer that came up with the format. The very nature of the media - it being designed for mass manufacture, ensures that all manufacturers adhere to international standards FOR INDIVIDUAL MEMORY CARD TYPES and therefore there are often very few deviations or proprietary elements that need to be considered when attempting recovery from a card type. There are however, differences between the types of memory cards/sticks.

The next stages in the recovery of data from memory cards or sticks can be found here.

WARNING - DATA LOSS CAN OCCUR WITH EMBEDDED MEMORY... and it is therefore important that data recovery is undertaken for Mobile Phones and PDAs containing RAM as part of a forensically sound process needs to be managed in line with recognised incident management guidelines. This will often demand that the device/or system does not lose power and is not switched off. For more information on this, read the whitepaper in the downloads section of the website.