Hard drive data recovery
Hard drive data recovery
Seagate 4TB Portable Drive Spinning but Not Detected: Controller Chip Moved to a Donor Board, Business Files and Family Photos Recovered
James’s Seagate 4TB portable drive, under a year old, spun but never showed up. The ROM sits in its controller chip, so we moved the chip to a donor board and copied his business files and family photos.
Clicking WD My Passport 1TB, Urgent Job: 400GB of Client Shoots Recovered in One Day
A Newcastle photographer’s 1TB WD My Passport started clicking with 400GB of client shoots on it. The failed heads were replaced from a matched donor drive in a laminar flow cabinet, and every file came back in one day.
Toshiba 1TB USB Drive Freezing Windows: Bad Sectors Cloned in Under 12 Hours
A Toshiba 1TB USB drive showed a drive letter but no capacity, then froze Windows. Read on a DeepSpar Disk Imager with a USB add-on card, 99.99% cloned and the files ready in under 12 hours.
Clicking WD My Book: Torn Off Head and a Failed PCB, 440GB of Family Photos Recovered
A clicking WD My Book held 20 years of family photos. Head 0 was torn off and the circuit board had failed too. Donor heads and a ROM chip transfer brought back 440GB.
WD 10TB Hard Drive With Bad Sectors: 94% Cloned in 6 Days, 4TB of Files Recovered
A WD 10TB hard drive from a car mechanic’s workshop in Western Australia showed up but nothing would copy. A six day DeepSpar clone reached 94 percent and about 4TB, 4,700 files, came back.
WD My Passport Not Spinning Up: Stuck Heads Released, 62,000 Files Recovered
A WD My Passport that stopped working with a faint clicking had its read/write heads stuck to the platters. Heads released in a laminar flow cabinet, SMR firmware unlocked on the PC-3000 Express, 700GB and over 62,000 files recovered.
WD My Passport Asking to Be Formatted: One Weak Head, Over 700GB Recovered
A WD My Passport kept asking to be formatted. One of four read heads was weak. We imaged with the good heads, fitted donor heads and recovered over 700GB, 99.9 percent cloned.
Clicking Seagate ST4000DM000 4TB: Donor Heads Fitted, 2 Weak Heads Read Last
A Seagate ST4000DM000 4TB drive from Melbourne clicked and would not show up. The failed heads were replaced with donor heads, the ROM patched on the PC-3000, and the drive cloned.
WD External Drive Slow, Then Not Detected: 1 of 4 Heads Failed, Family Video Recovered
A Western Digital 2.5 inch external drive read slowly for months, then stopped detecting. One of four heads had failed. Two stage imaging with donor heads brought back years of family video.
Time Machine Data Recovery: 60GB of Lost Journals Rescued from a WD My Passport
A WD My Passport 4TB Time Machine drive still mounted but most of Adam’s folders had vanished, including years of journals and video journals. A deep scan and careful file location work recovered about 60GB of journals and saved them to a new drive.
