The partner called at 8:00 AM. “Did we lose anything?”
She double-clicked the virtual drive. The folder structure appeared. Clients > Q4 > Timesheets.xlsx.
She booted her forensic workstation and opened .
The interface was ugly. Functional. The kind of tool built by engineers who had lost sleep over corrupted stripes. She inserted the three physical drives (one dead, one dying, one healthy) via SATA adapters.