Has anyone here successfully rehydrated a QuickBooks QBW using the matching.TLG after imaging a dying 512GB NVMe with FTK Imager 4.7 (E01, MD5/SHA1 verified)? I’ve run X-Ways 21.6 and Magnet AXIOM to carve slack and the MFT for orphaned.TLG segments, and can parse about 68% of transactions, but I’m stuck on reconciling out-of-order journal entries — what settings or alternative tools have given you better transaction integrity?
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If the “out-of-order journal entries” are tripping your replay, try a clean rebuild in QuickBooks Desktop using Auto Data Recovery: export the QBW and matching.TLG from the E01 to a fresh folder with identical names, run Verify then Rebuild, and check qbwin.log — the engine replays by commit ID, not file offset. If ADR balks, pre-order your carved.TLG fragments by their internal LSN/commit timestamp before concatenation, then repeat the rebuild. Do you have a single contiguous.TLG from the image, or only stitched chunks?
One thing that’s bitten me is version skew: mount the E01 read‑only (Arsenal Image Mounter: Arsenal Recon) and open the QBW with the “exact same year/build” of QuickBooks Desktop that created it before running Verify/Rebuild, or the.TLG will replay out of order. If you don’t know the build, grep strings in the.TLG for an R‑number (e.g., R14) or check any surviving.ND next to the QBW to match the DB server version. If that still scrambles entries, @op try pulling a contiguous.TLG from a Volume Shadow Copy in X‑Ways 21.6 as a fallback.
I’ve had better luck grabbing an intact.TLG from a Volume Shadow Copy — use ShadowCopyView (ShadowCopyView - Shadow copy viewer for Windows 10/8/7/Vista) to mount an older snapshot and pull the QBW/.TLG pair from the same point in time, then let QB apply the log. Did you image VSS or only the live volume?
Had this on a 256GB NVMe — my fix was filtering carved.TLG chunks by the CompanyFileID in the header so I wasn’t mixing generations; once only matching GUID pieces remained, ordering by the log’s sequence counter made QB accept the replay. @OP does the.TLG header GUID match the QBW?