Disk Doctors have performed thousands of successful data recovery cases however below are some of the recent cases that we have dealt with and recovered the data from damaged hard drives. You can contact us for free data recovery evaluation if you have a similar case.
Motor damaged hard drive
Make: | Seagate Hard Drive |
Model: | ST3500630A |
Capacity: | 500GB |
Firmware: | 3.AAE |
Interface: | 3.5 IDE |
Failure: | Spindle jam |
Symptoms: | Buzzing sound, no spin |
This drive was accidently dropped from table height; it started to make buzzing sound and was not spinning. All data was successfully recovered from this drive.
Clicking Seagate Hard Drive.
Make: | Seagate Hard Drive |
Model: | ST31000333AS |
Capacity: | 1000GB (1TB) |
Firmware: | SD35 |
Interface: | 3.5 SATA |
Failure: | Head Failure |
Symptoms: | Clicking sound |
The hard drive had a one failed head making clicking sounds. All data was successfully recovered.
Maxtor hard drive with firmware issue
Make: | Maxtor (Seagate) Hard Drive |
Model: | STM3500320AS |
Capacity: | 500GB |
Firmware: | MX15 |
Interface: | 3.5 SATA |
Failure: | Firmware issue |
Symptoms: | usual spin, no strange sound and not recognised |
This drive is affected by a firmware issue, the drive is no longer recognised, makes no unusual sound. Disk Doctors recovered 100% data from this hard drive.
Samsung Solid State hard drive data recovery
Make: | Samsung Solid State Hard Drive |
Model: | 2.5” 64GB SSD SATA - 1 |
Capacity: | 64GB |
Firmware: | 2.9.02 |
Interface: | SATA |
Failure: | File system corruption caused by data encryption |
Symptoms: | Partition and data structure not recognised |
The client had some serious issues due to encryption of data and decided to remove the encryption. This caused extreme corruption in NTFS file system, as a result all data was lost. 100% data was recovered from this hard drive.
Dell Server Data Recovery
Make: | Dell |
Model: | Server 2900 |
Capacity: | 73GB |
Raid Level: | RAID 0 (Stripe Set) |
No. Of Drives: | 8 Seagate hard drives |
Drive Make: | Seagate |
Model: | ST373455SS |
Interface: | SAS (Serial SCSI) |
Failure: | 2 media damage hard drives |
Symptoms: | Array crashed |
The RAID server crashed, client’s effort to start-up the server made the condition worse, as drives were swapped around and CHKDSK was allowed to run for a longer period. Finally the server was brought to us. 100% data was recovered and delivered to client within 3 days.
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