Whilst CDR might receive positive online reviews, it is a very pleasant surprise when a customer goes a little further. This week a parcel arrived. Rather than a HDD or …
Seagate 2TB Backup Plus – not detected
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 …
How to recover Canon video files
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 – …
When is a single SSD actually two SSDs? Samsung MZRPC512
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 …
Toshiba MQ01ABF050 – skewed spindle
Case study: Toshiba MQ01ABF050 – skewed spindle An unusual failure in a Toshiba MQ01ABF050 500GB 2.5″ laptop hard disk drive (HDD). The owner of the laptop had fallen down a …
Buffalo TeraStation RAID data recovery
Four disk Buffalo TeraStation RAID array data recovery During the autumn of 2015, CDR – Manchester Data Recovery Services – has received a total of five Buffalo TeraStations for data …
Thecus N3200 – 3 Disk RAID 5 recovery
RAID-5 Recovery after a two disk failure Recently CDR received in a 3 disk Thecus RAID array. This was from a home user which was using a NAS to share …
HDD Failure: Toshiba MK3265GSXN – firmware or heads?
Mixed symptoms of failure – Toshiba MK3265GSXN This article applies to MK3265GSXN disk and many other ’65GSX’ series of HDD. CDR has seen a high incidence of a very specific …
Counterfeit Memory Sticks
Counterfeit memory stick data recovery. In previous posts, CDR has highlighted some of the problems when working on counterfeit flash storage (memory sticks and memory cards.) As these devices look …
Apple XSERVE RAID Recovery – Unusual block ordering
Apple XSERVE – Non-standard RAID recovery. A recent CDR RAID-5 case study showed an example of a typical RAID-5 data recovery. This was considered to be ‘typical’ on the basis …