In this post I discuss recovering data from Micro B USB drives. It’s a bit of a misnomer really, it doesn’t matter if the hard drive connection is a Micro B, or Firewire etc, the same hard drive is used…
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Data Recovery
External hard drive usb recover data
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“I have a Sumvision external USB drive. I thing it is about 80 gb. It was working fine and has been sat in the laptop bag for some time. I plugged it into the laptop today and was unable to…
Data Recovery
Data Recovery from damaged platter
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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…
Data Recovery
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…
Data Recovery
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…
Data Recovery
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…
Data Recovery
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…
Data Recovery
Server Data Loss
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I was called into a business that had an emergency data loss situation on their RAID 5 server. The server (an HP Proliant) could not load the operating system and the raid partition appeared as unallocated. Data and file loss…