HDD with PCB failure and multiple secondary faults. Manufacturer: Western Digital Model Number: WD10EADS-11M2B1 Serial: WCAV53875848 On initial inspection, the HDD showed typical symptoms of having sustained failure of the …
Self-erasing flash drives destroy court evidence – and your data too.
This message will self-destruct in 5 seconds… Mission Impossible. Yes, sometimes data recovery really can be a mission impossible. If only it were a tape recorder with smoke coming out …
Please think twice about who you let open your hard disk drive…
Are you prepared to lose your data? This is almost a repeat of a previous post. However, it is worth repeating, again and again, and again until people take notice. …
When you can tell data is unrecoverable just by the label
Unrecoverable Hard disk drive? Rather a long title to this post, but you are probably asking your self, just how? No, we don’t have X-ray vision here. Or special (fictional) …
Solid State Disk reliability – no need to backup?
How reliable are Solid State Disks (SSDs)? We have already had one or two customers tell us that after the failure of their hard disk drive (HDD) they have decided …
Head crash gallery – when data cannot be recovered
Unrecoverable HDDs – Head-crash. Non-recoverable data is not good for any party. The customer does not get their data back, and we do not get paid, anything. Our ‘no-recovery, no-fee’ …
Merry Christmas
Christmas Office Hours 2011. CDR – Manchester Data Recovery Services – like many other data recovery companies, is taking a welcome break over the Christmas period. Doors close here at …
Don’t ruin your data recovery by scrimping on foam and bubble-wrap
Packaging your device for data recovery. Ideally we would like each customer to deliver their hard disk drive them-self. That way we can perform a whilst-you-wait diagnostic test and confirm …
Why not to open a hard disk yourself
Why exposing HDD platters is a BAD idea. Following the “don’t put your hard disk in a freezer” advice in a previous post, here we examine the worst possible decision …