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Data Recovery Scam Example – Inform yourself

By Administrator on July 22, 2017. Posted in Blog, Hard Disk Drive Recovery Case Study, Recovery of the day. Tagged as HDD, platter damage, scams.

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22/7/2017 – ST3000DM001. Pre-opened HDD This week CDR – Manchester Data Recovery Services – received a 3TB HDD from a media company based in Sale, Cheshire. The drive contained video footage for various projects. The owner of the HDD had described that the drive had been making a ‘clicking’ sound. Knowing this, and that the…

Ransomware Locked MacBook Pro

By Administrator on July 14, 2017. Posted in Blog, Recovery of the day, Solid State Disk Recovery Case Study. Tagged as Apple, MacBook, Ransomware, SSD.

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14/7/2017 – Ransomware Locked MacBook Pro A user of an Apple MacBook Pro (2013) had suffered either a malware attack or breach of his iCloud account. The result of which is that his MacBook Pro had been locked, with a message on screen requesting that the owner of the laptop should pay a ransom. If…

128GB MicroSD counterfeit

By Administrator on July 5, 2017. Posted in Blog, Recovery of the day. Tagged as counterfeit, Fake, memory card, micorsd.

05/7/2017 – 128GB MicroSD fake capacity Today, CDR has been working on a MicroSD memory card which had a reported capacity of 128GB. The memory card had been purchased from Amazon Market Place. It had been used by the customer to record video from an underwater Go Pro camera showing diving around a reef. The…

Seagate ST4000DM000 4TB damaged platter

By Administrator on June 30, 2017. Posted in Blog, Recovery of the day. Tagged as Manchester, platter damage, Seagate.

30/6/2017 – ST4000DM000 – Contamination inside the disk A Seagate ST4000DM000 hard disk drive was received from a Manchester based media company. The HDD was from an external “Backup Plus Hub” USB3 caddy, and had been knocked off a desk by one of the employees whilst he was working on a project. The drive contains…

Detached read-write heads

By Administrator on June 28, 2017. Posted in Blog, Recovery of the day. Tagged as head crash, my passport, Western Digital.

28/6/2017 – HDD read/write heads detached A Western Digital My Passport 500GB was received for recovery. The drive was spinning, but an audible clicking and scratching sound could be heard. The HDD had sustained a physical shock, which had caused failure. The HDD has a total of three read-write heads assigned to four platter surfaces.…

WD 2TB My Passport Dropped on the Floor

By Administrator on June 27, 2017. Posted in Blog, Recovery of the day. Tagged as my passport, WD, Western Digital.

27/06/2017 – WD 2TB My Passport – Dropped on the floor A 2TB (2000GB) Western Digital My Passport Ultra portable HDD was dropped by the customer on the floor. The HDD made some quiet clicking noises and was not recognised by his Apple Mac or Windows computers. From the initial telephone diagnosis of the HDD,…

NHS cyber-attack: hospital computer systems held to ransom across England

By Administrator on May 12, 2017. Posted in Blog. Tagged as data loss, Ransomware.

Ransomware attack on NHS hospitals On the 12th of May, 2017, there has been a major ‘ransomware’ attack affecting multiple hospitals in the UK. Computer systems have been powered off, and data has been encrypted and held to ransom. For full coverage see The Guardian article here: NHS cyber-attack: hospital computer systems held to ransom…

How to recover Canon video files

By Administrator on May 6, 2017. Posted in Blog, Memory Stick/Card Recovery Case Study. Tagged as memory card, success.

Canon video file data recovery Modern Canon video cameras, or SLRs, with video capability produce high definition video files. They are widely used by amateur and professional videographers. CDR – Manchester Data Recovery Services – receives a considerable number of memory cards which have either had data deleted, been formatted, or suffer corruption of the…

When is a single SSD actually two SSDs? Samsung MZRPC512

By Administrator on January 27, 2017. Posted in Blog, Solid State Disk Recovery Case Study. Tagged as RAID, SSD, success.

A single SSD with two processors in RAID 0. Solid State Disk (SSD) technology is still very much an emerging technology. There are over 100 different manufacturers of SSDs and the associated components. As a consequence of both, there is far less standardisation in the technology than with hard disk drives (HDDs). This means manufacturers…

2017: Normal business hours resume

By Administrator on January 5, 2017. Posted in Blog. Tagged as Manchester, working hours.

Trading for 2017 has started. After the Christmas and New Year break, normal working hours for CDR – Manchester Data Recovery Services – resumed on the 4th of January at 9am. If you have any enquiries please contact Cheadle DATA Recovery Ltd by email, or phone 0161 408 4857. Have a Happy New Year.

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Data Recovery Scam Example – Inform yourself July 22, 2017
Ransomware Locked MacBook Pro July 14, 2017
128GB MicroSD counterfeit July 5, 2017
Seagate ST4000DM000 4TB damaged platter June 30, 2017

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