Hard drive’s that have damaged platters are often very difficult for data recovery companies to retrieve the files from. This is because the surface of the hard drive that actually holds the data is damaged and reading it is therefore…
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Data recovery needed
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I’ve had a few hard drives in lately requiring data recovery – here’s a list of them and the symptoms they have: A Seagate product, the drive itself has stopped rotating. Whilst the device can be seen as a ‘BUP…
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Recovering data from RAW hard drives
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Here are a couple of instances where people have had hard drives that show up as ‘RAW’. When this happens is usually tells me that the computer can not read the hard drive’s filesystem correctly. This is usually caused by…
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Lacie and Dell hard drive recoveries
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Lacie Rugged Data Recovery Whilst uploading a video to Vimeo my hard drive, a Lacie Rugged mini, has stopped working makes a strange noise and will not register on mac. The light is still on, it will flash and then…
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Data recovery on phones
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In this post I tackle recovering the files from several types of mobile phone. Unless the problem with your phone is straightforward to fix, you’re best securing the services of a decent phone data recovery company (see my earlier blog…
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ReadyNAS Hard Drive Recovery Northampton
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Accidental factory reset on READYNAS DUO (review here). Lost all data. Approx 1.4TB. Shows up only under disk utility. Looks as if the disk is not formatted but I had lots of pictures in the disk. I live close to…
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iPhone Data Recovery
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Apple’s iPhone can be a difficult phone to recover the data from. Unless the error is something that doesn’t involve the phone’s hardware (chips and PCB most) I am now recommending that visitors to my site use the services of…
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More data recovery
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Desktop Seagate 1TB 7200.12 I have a problem with HDD which suddenly stopped working. Below, a few facts hopefully to enable to give me a quote. Disk: Desktop Seagate 1TB 7200.12 ST31000528AS Circumstances: no physical cause for disk to fail,…
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RAID Data Recovery
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Here are some of the questions I’ve been asked from people wanting me to recover the files from their RAID hard drives and servers. Many people run RAID hard drives these days – RAIDs are multiple disk systems that distribute…
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Synology Data Recovery from NAS
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i have a Synology NAS with 4 Wd drives in it (3.5″ SATA drives, 2xWD20EARX + 2xWD20EZRX). The drives were set up as one RAID0 volume… no need to ask why, that configuration is pretty silly. Anyway, the NAS fell…