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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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James Williams
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John was fantastic, providing an efficient and professional service. All data was recovered. Communication was great throughout. Thank you!
Taha
1 week ago
John is a true gem! He helped me recover my SSD after a different computer shop couldn't do anything about it. He was very knowledgeable, professional and prompt. The services aren't cheap but fairly comparable when you look into data recovery services. Would recommend 10/10!
Response from the owner:Hello Taha, thanks for the review. Your SanDisk Extreme external SSD had an electronic failure. A number of components on the printed circuit board had failed. Using components from a matching donor SSD it was possible get the SSD to a state where the device would power on normally and attempts to read the data could be made normally. I am glad you were pleased with the service. Best regards, John C. Reid.
Paul Ledsham
4 weeks ago
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
4 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.

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