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Seagate ST3500418AS – Recovery of the Day

In Blog, Recovery of the day by AdministratorJuly 26, 2019

Friday night Pharaoh (Seagate 7200.12 500GB) To finish the week. Work replacing the failed head assembly in a Seagate 500GB ST3500418AS. This is a Barracuda 7200.12. The engineering name is …

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Head-assembly swap: Seagate ST31000528AS

In Blog, Hard Disk Drive Recovery Case Study, Recovery of the day by AdministratorFebruary 21, 2019

21/2/2019 – Seagate 1000GB 7200.12 Barracuda A desktop HDD provided by an IT Support company on behalf of their customer. The HDD was making a distinctive clicking sound. Quickly it …

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FreeNAS Linux RAID

In Blog, Recovery of the day, Server/RAID Array Recovery Case Study by AdministratorSeptember 9, 2017

9/9/2017 – 4 Disk RAID-5 FreeNAS – Multiple HDD failures Work has recently been completed on a four disk RAID-5 network attached storage (NAS) device. The four disks came from …

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Seagate 2TB Backup Plus – not detected

In Blog, Hard Disk Drive Recovery Case Study, Recovery of the day by AdministratorAugust 23, 2017

23/8/2017 – Seagate 2000GB external HDD – not detected by any computer A Manchester city centre-based Landscape and Ecology consultancy had a considerable number of design files for clients on …

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WD20NMVW mechanical failure

In Blog, Hard Disk Drive Recovery Case Study, Recovery of the day by AdministratorJuly 28, 2017

28/07/2017 – WD20NMVW – Failed Read-Write Heads A 2000GB (2TB) portable HDD was being used by a furniture design company to store data associated with their newly designed products, as …

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Data Recovery Scam Example – Inform yourself

In Blog, Hard Disk Drive Recovery Case Study, Recovery of the day by AdministratorJuly 22, 2017

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 …

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Ransomware Locked MacBook Pro

In Blog, Recovery of the day, Solid State Disk Recovery Case Study by AdministratorJuly 14, 2017

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 …

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128GB MicroSD counterfeit

In Blog, Memory Stick/Card Recovery Case Study, Recovery of the day by AdministratorJuly 5, 2017

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 …

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Seagate ST4000DM000 4TB damaged platter

In Blog, Hard Disk Drive Recovery Case Study, Recovery of the day by AdministratorJune 30, 2017

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” …

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Detached read-write heads

In Blog, Hard Disk Drive Recovery Case Study, Recovery of the day by AdministratorJune 28, 2017

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. …

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Debbie Hilton
2 days ago
John was brilliant. My niece had seven years worth of lesson plans on a broken data stick and nowhere had been able to retrieve it for her until I found Cheadle Data Recovery. John was professional and transparent in regards to recovery and fees which I really appreciated. Payment only required if data is recovered. And it was! My niece was over the moon! Highly recommended this company.
James White
4 weeks ago
I had a new M.2 NVME drive fail on me with all my project files on so needed to do data recovery, after a bit of looking around my local area I got directed to Cheadle data recovery as the places I enquired with locally didn't deal with M.2 devices I initially called to seek quotations and John was friendly, polite and professional whilst answering any questions I had about the process, reassuring me that I was dealing with someone who knew what they were doing and giving me confidence that I wouldn't be left short as they operate on a "no recovery, no fee" basis Even going so far as to give follow up advice afterwards regarding how to create backups and other solutions to prevent this from happening in future. I really appreciate you going the extra mile and I cannot thank you enough for getting me my lost time back
Response from the owner:Hello James, thanks for the review. I am glad it was possible to make a good recovery of your failed Corsair 2TB SSD (CSSD-F2000GBMP600). The NAND had degraded and had resulted in a failure of the firmware. On receipt the SSD was stuck in a safe/engineering mode showing a capacity of 0MB. Best regards, John C. Reid.
Phill Dixon
1 month ago
Spoke to John at Cheadle Data Recovery about an enterprise grade HDD that needed recovery. He was completely upfront that the helium filled nature meant it was out of scope but hen spent a great deal of time and effort putting me in contact with places that could. He has made absolutely nothing off my call but spent 40 mins trying to help and recommending other very specialist recovery firms that could potentially help and explaining the process. Absolutely brilliant service
Response from the owner:Hello Phill, thank you for the review. Helium filled HDDs present a major technical challenge for data recovery companies when the mechanical components have failed within the HDD. I am not aware of any UK based data recovery company that has a proven success record when working on mechanical failed helium filled hard disks. As such I recommend HelpDisc/HDDSurgery in Serbia or Morde in Portugal who are making genuine recovery attempts on these disks. Both of which perform work on a 'no-recovery, no-fee' basis, and do not charge for the donor HDD. Unfortunately, I am aware of certain UK based data recovery companies which have charged £1000+ upfront for a recovery attempt on a helium filled disk, where no data has been subsequently recovered, and then on inspection of the disk it has been found that no work has actually taken place. As such, I advise those people with Helium filled HDDs to be cautious of some claims made by certain data recovery companies regarding their technical capabilities and to check the terms of work before any payment is made to the company. Whilst CDR does not work on mechanically failed helium HDDs, we do still work on helium HDDs which have suffered failure associated with the firmware, printed circuit board, bad sectors/degraded media and corruption of the filesystem. Best regards, John C. Reid.
RDC Creative Media
1 month ago
I have used Cheadle Data Recovery twice now for failed hard drives, John was so helpful and informative about both jobs and he went above and beyond to make sure that I was completely satisfied. I would HIGHLY recommend Cheadle Data Recovery to anyone looking for help with recovery issues. John is flexible, down to earth and just an all round great guy. I will be using him again if I ever have any issues!
Response from the owner:Hello Rudie, I am glad we were able to bring the job to a positive conclusion and I appreciate the unsolicited review. Best regards, John C. Reid.

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