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BBC News – World’s first ‘tax’ on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7

In Blog, Hard Disk Drive News by AdministratorJune 14, 2012

Stop using old web-browsers – time for a tax? BBC News – World’s first ‘tax’ on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7. Not even a hint of data recovery news in this …

Hard disk drive prices to remain high until 2014

In Blog, Hard Disk Drive News by AdministratorJune 11, 2012

HDD prices to remain high until 2014? Hard disk drive prices to remain high until 2014 | ITProPortal.com. It might seem like old news now, but the effects are still …

EMC World 2012: EMC bangs the drum for disk storage | IT PRO

In Blog, Hard Disk Drive News by AdministratorMay 30, 2012

EMC pushes HDD ahead of Tape for backup. EMC World 2012: EMC bangs the drum for disk storage | IT PRO. I’d agree that in some respect tape backup is …

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More on SSD – so very reliable or not…

In Blog, Hard Disk Drive News by AdministratorMay 15, 2012

Solid State Disks – are they any more reliable than HDDs? Drop them, throw them, put them in water, they’ll keep working! I remember when CDs were touted to have …

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Reference: Inside a Hard Disk Drive

In Blog, Hard Disk Drive News by AdministratorApril 30, 2012

The internal components of a HDD. On most occasions, we consider it important to explain to customers what exactly has gone wrong with their hard disk drive. Given that most …

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How easy is it to find a donor hard disk drive? Part 2 – PCBs

In Blog, Hard Disk Drive News, Successful recovery by AdministratorApril 20, 2012

How to find a donor PCB for HDD data recovery. In a follow up to the initial post, “How easy is it to find a donor hard disk drive? Part …

WD pushes out super-slim shock-resistant Ultrabook drive

In Blog, Hard Disk Drive News by AdministratorApril 12, 2012

Shock resistant HDD? We don’t think so. WD pushes out super-slim shock-resistant Ultrabook drive • The Register. 500GB on a single platter for a laptop 2.5-inch hard disk drive.  Quite …

Natural Disasters Contribute To HDD Decline In 2011

In Blog, Hard Disk Drive News by AdministratorApril 4, 2012

HDD Decline in 2011? Probably not. Natural Disasters Contribute To HDD Decline In 2011 | TechWeekEurope UK. “A new report from IDC has confirmed the fact that worldwide shipments of …

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Farewell Hitachi GST, we’ll miss you

In Blog, Hard Disk Drive News by AdministratorMarch 29, 2012

No more Hitachi hard disk drives? With Western Digital taking over Hitachi GST there aren’t many hard disk manufacturers left. There might seem like lots when you look to buy …

Lack of hard disk drives derail Hadron-colliding antimatter boffinry

In Blog, Hard Disk Drive News by AdministratorMarch 24, 2012

Too few HDDs for scientific experiments. Thai floods derail Hadron-colliding antimatter boffinry • The Register. It’s not just OEMs, computer shops and data recovery companies that running short of hard …

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Paul Ledsham
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John from CDR Restore Office recovered data from our corrupted SSD drive using their emergency service. We had our data back within just 24 hours! The service was fast, professional, and reliable throughout. We’re extremely grateful and would highly recommend John and CDR Restore Office to anyone needing urgent data recovery.
Response from the owner:Hello Paul, thank you for the review. Your 2TB Cricial SSD (CT2000BX500SSD1) had an electronic failure. A number of capacitors and power management IC had failed. Fortunately donor parts were in stock, and it was possible to resolve the failure of the SSD and make a full recovery in under 24 hours. I remember during your enquiry you asked whether the technical work actually took place by CDR, as you had approached a company which advertised data recovery services, only to find out that they sub-contracted the work. The SSD would have been sent away, leading to extended lead times. This is very common, In Manchester city centre alone there are a number of 'virtual offices' for data recovery companies where no staff are present and your disk would be sent off to an unknown location. I am glad it was possible to make a successful recovery of the data. Best regards, John C. Reid.
Greg Evans
2 weeks ago
Absolutely over the moon with CDR's express service. Two disks failed on a three disk Raid5, with the third hanging on. 5tb of irreplaceable data recovered in a few days. Both myself and our marketing team can't thank you enough. I really hope we don't need your services again, but we're mightily glad that you're there, if we do.
Response from the owner:Hello Greg, thank you for the review. The 3 x 6TB RAID-5 array had failed with two disks suffering from bad sectors. This aspect of the recovery was relatively straight forward to deal with with the appropriate hardware disk imaging equipment. Where this job proved to be more complex, was that one of the disk has been reinitialised, resulting in a different partition structure to the two remaining. This included the starting LBA position of the main partition (LBA 3145728 versus LBA 2120584). The disks came from a QNAP device, which used thin-provisioning. There was corruption of the thin-provisioning metadata database. As a result of both issues above, it was necessary to establish and manually set out the parameters of the RAID array rather than use an automatic rebuild from the associated RAID configuration metadata. By doing so, it was possible to rebuild the thing-provisioning database without error, and rebuild the full folder and file name structure. From this it was possible to achieve a successful recovery of the data. All done so within a 48 hour working time. Best regards, John C. Reid.
Tom Marshall
1 month ago
Stupidly, it was my fault that my HDD failed which then left me trying to find somewhere to get it fixed. From the initial phone call with John through to the end where he managed to recover 99.9% of the files on my HDD. The service was professional and stream lined with good communication throughout and all costs were given to me beforehand so no surprises at the end. So glad I found and chose to use Cheadle Recovery Ltd and recommend his service 100% !
Response from the owner:Hello Tom, thank you for the review, I am glad it was possible to recover the data from your failed Toshiba 1TB hard disk drive. Best regards, John C. Reid.
Events Cheshire Young Carers
1 month ago
Amazing service! John really saved the day by recovering a huge archive of photos spanning many years. The whole process was straightforward from start to finish, and his knowledge and expertise were outstanding. He took the time to talk us through every step, making everything easy to understand and stress-free. We can't thank him enough for helping us recover so many precious memories. Highly recommended!
Response from the owner:Hello Victoria, thank you for the review. I am glad you found the process smooth and clear, and that there was a successful recovery of the data you required. Best regards, John C. Reid.

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