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WD SATA Western Digital
IDE ATA PATA Western Digital HDD
| WD Raptor SATA |
WD Scorpio Laptop
Notebook |
| WD Caviar SATA PATA |
WD Dual-option Media Center
USB Firewire |
| WD NetCentre |
WD Dual-option Combo USB
Firewire |
| WD Dual-option USB |
WD Combo FireWire USB 2.0
& Special Edition |
| WD Essentials USB 2.0 |
WD FireWire External Hard
Drive |
| WD Series 2 USB 2.0 |
WD My Book Essential Edition |
| WD My Book Pro Edition |
WD My Book Premium Edition
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SATA Hard Drives (including from Dell RAID
systems rebuild repair)
WD SATA IDE PATA & SCSI Hard Drive Data
Recovery |
Western Digital Hard Disk
Drive Data Recovery & Repair for:-
WD Raptor SATA WD1500ADFD WD1500AHFD WD740ADFD
WD360ADFD WD740GD WD360GD
WD Caviar RE2 Serial ATA SATA (Raid Edition)
WD4000YS, WD5000YS
WD Caviar RE Serial ATA SATA (Raid Edition)WD5000ABYS
WD4000ABYS, WD3200YS WD2500YS WD1600YS WD4000YR
WD3200SD WD2500YD WD2500SD WD1600SD WD1200SD
WD Caviar RE EIDE (Raid Edition) WD3200SB
WD2500SB WD1600SB WD1200SB
WD Raptor X WD1500AHFD
WD Caviar SE16 SATA WD7500AAKS WD5000AAKS,
WD3200AAKS WD2500AAKS
WD Caviar SE16 EIDE WD4000AAKB WD5000AAKB
WD Caviar SATA WD3200BD WD2000BD WD800BD
WD400BD
WD Caviar Second Generation Serial ATA
SATA II WD5000AAJS WD4000AAJS WD3200AAJS
WD2500AAJS WD1600AAJS WD5000KS WD4000KS WD3200KS
WD2500KS WD2500JS WD2000KS WD2000JS WD1600JS WD1200JS
WD Caviar SE Serial ATA SATA (Special Edition)
WD4000KD WD3200JD WD3000JD WD2500JD WD2000JD WD1600JD
WD1200JD WD800JD WD400JD
WD Scorpio 2.5 Inch SATA EIDE Hard Drive
WD1200BEAS WD1200BEVS WD1000BEAS WD1000BEVS WD800BEAS
WD800BEVS WD600BEAS WD600BEVS WD400BEAS WD400BEVS
WD Scorpio 2.5 Inch PATA EIDE Hard Drive
WD1200VE WD1200UE WD1000VE WD1000UE WD800VE WD800UE
WD600VE WD600UE WD400VE WD400UE
WD Caviar SE EIDE PATA (Special Edition) WD3200JB
WD3000JB WD2500JB WD2500PB WD2000JB WD2000PB WD1800JB
WD1600JB WD1200JB WD1200PB WD1000JB WD800JB WD600JB
WD400JB
WD Caviar EIDE PATA WD3200BB WD3000BB WD2500BB
WD2500LB WD2000BB WD2000LB WD1800BB WD1750BB WD1600BB
WD1200BB WD1200LB WD1000BB WD800BB WD600BB WD400BB
WD300BB WD200BB WD100BB
WD Protege IDE PATA WD1600AB WD1200AB WD1000AB
WD800AB WD800EB WD600AB WD600EB WD400AB WD400EB
WD300AB WD300EB WD200AB WD200EB WD100AB WD100EB
WD Passport Portable USB 2.0 WD1200B017
WDXML1200UE WD1000B017 WDXML1000UE WD800B017 WDXML800UE
WDXML600UE
WD400B017 WDXML400UE WDXMS600TN WDXMS800TN WDXMS1000TN
WDXMS1200TN WDXMS1600TN
WD Passport Pocket USB 2.0 WD60W028 WDXMM60WP
WD NetCenter WD5000B019 WDXE5000KS WD3200B019
WDXE3200JB WD2500B019 WDXE2500JB WD1600B019 WDXE1600JB
WD Dual-option Media Center USB 2.0 FireWire
WD3200B012 WDXF3200JB WD2500B012 WDXF2500JB WD2000B012
WDXF2000JB WD1600B012 WDXF1600JB WD1200B012 WDXF1200JB
WD Dual-option Combo USB 2.0 FireWire
WD3200B011 WDXB3200JB WD2500B011 WDXB2500JB
WD2000B011 WDXB2000JB WD1600B011 WDXB1600JB WD1200B011
WDXB1200JB
WD Dual-option USB WD4000B015 WDXUB4000KD
WD3200B015 WDXUB3200JB WD2500B015 WDXUB2500JB
WD2000B015 WDXUB2000JB WD1600B015 WDXUB1600BB
WD1200B015 WDXUB1200BB WD800B015 WDXUB800BB
WD Combo FireWire USB 2.0 and Combo Special
Edition WD3200B007 WDXC3200JB WD2500B007 WDXC2500JB
WD1600B007 WDXC1600JB WD1200B007 WDXC1200JB WD2000B006
WDXC2000BB WD1200B006 WDXC1200BB
WD FireWire IEEE 1394 External Hard Drive
WD2000B002 WD2000B02
WD1200B002 WD1200B02 WD800B002 WD800B02 WD600A001
WD450A001 WD300A001 WD200A001 WD100A001
WD Essentials USB 2.0 WD4000K029 WDXUL4000KD
WD2500B014 WDXUL2500BB WD2000B014 WDXUL2000BB
WD1600B014 WDXUL1600BB
WD1200B014 WDXUL1200BB WD800B014 WDXUL800BB
WD Series 2 USB 2.0 WD1600B008 WDXU1600BB
WD1200B008 WDXU1200BB WD800B008 WDXU800BB WD400B008
WDXU400BB
WD My Book Pro Edition WD5000E032 WDG1T5000
WD2500E032 WDG1T2500
WD My Book Essential Edition WD5000C032
WDG1U5000 WD4000C032 WDG1U4000 WD3200C032 WDG1U3200
WD2500C032 WDG1U2500 WD1600C032 WDG1U1600 WD800C032
WDG1U800
WD My Book Premium Edition WD5000D032 WDG1C5000
WD4000D032 WDG1C4000 WD3200D032 WDG1C3200 WD2500D032
WDG1C2500 WD1600D032 WDG1C1600
Also Data Recovery or Drive Repair for following
WD Drives Sizes
500GB 400GB 320GB 250GB 200GB 160GB 120GB
100GB 80GB 60GB 40GB 20GB 10GB
Protege: WD400EB, WD300EB, WD200EB WD
Spartan: WD153DA, WD75DA
WD Caviar WD450AA, WD300AA, WD153AA, WD75AA WD307AA,
WD205AA, WD153AA, WD102AA WD272AA, WD205AA, WD172AA,
WD84AA, WD43AA WD205AA, WD172AA, WD136AA, WD102AA,
WD64AA WDAC313000, WDAC310200, WDAC28400, WDAC26400,
WDAC14300 WDAC310100, WDAC38400, WDAC26400, WDAC24300,
WDAC13200 WDAC38400, WDAC37100, WDAC25400, WDAC24300,
WDAC12500 WDAC36400, WDAC35100, WDAC24300, WDAC23200,
WDAC12100 WDAC35100, WDAC34300, WDAC23400, WDAC22500,
WDAC11700 WDAC34000, WDAC33200, WDAC22500, WDAC22000,
WDAC11200 WDAC33100, WDAC32500, WDAC22100, WDAC21600,
WDAC11000 WDAC32500, WDAC32100, WDAC21600, WDAC21200,
WDAC1850 WDAC31600, WDAC21000, WDAC1540 WDAC21200,
WDAC1635 WDAC31200 WDAC31000, WDAC2700, WDAC1365
WDAC2850, WDAC2635, WDAC1425 WDAC2850, WDAC2700,
WDAC1425 WDAC2540, WDAC1270 WDAC2420, WDAC1210
WDAC2340, WDAC2250, WDAC1170 WDAL2170, WDCU140,
WDAC2200 WDAC2120, WDAC160 WDAC280, WDAC260, WDAC140
WD93044A, WD95044A, WD93024A, WD95024A
What happens when we repair a Hard Drive / Hard Disc
/ Hard Disk?
Apex Technology provide a Professional Hard Disk Drive Repair and Data Recovery
Service. We have the specialist hardware to fix your Western Digital HDD HardDisk / HardDisc / HardDrive and recover the data from the drive.
Although the harddisk undergoes repair, we never recommend using them again for
data storage.
Usually by the time a Western Digital HDD hard drive reaches us it is the last chance to recover the data from
it. The hard disk undergoes repair purely to extract the data from it. We repair
all types of faulty hard disks, mechanical, electronic, software, virus, firmware
problems. We repair Desktop & Laptop Notebook Hard disk drives IDE ATA drives,
Serial-ATA SATA drive repairs.
When is it time to call a specialist Hard Disk Drive Repair Centre? There
are various faults that you may observe during the harddrive or harddisc operation.
Discs can go faulty, we have seen many cases including smoke, firmware, dropped
drives. This section contains useful information on diagnosing Hard Disk Drive
faults. Also included is a list of hard disk drives which we have fixed and any
useful data sheets on Hard Disk Drives.
Cost of Data Recovery or Hard Disk / Disc or File repair
For more information on our Data Recovery or Hard Disk Drive Repair capabilities
and pricing please click
here
We recover data in the UK from the following Hard Disks
Western Digital, Fujitsu, IBM, Hitachi, Toshiba, Quantum, Seagate, Lacie, Conner,
TEAC, Samsung, Kalok, Iomega
Click
here to see a list of disks we recover data when they are not recognised in BIOS
Buffalo Tera-Station NAS XFS 0.6TB, 1.0TB, 2.0TB
Lacie Carte Orange USB Disk Drive Data Recovery
Lacie 80GB 160GB 200GB 250GB 320G 400GB 500GB Serial ATA SATA
Lacie Companion Hard Drive, Design by F.A. Porsche 250GB USB 2.0
Firewire USB2.0 Firewire Desktop Mini, Big Disk Extreme, Bigger Disk Extreme
Common Faults observed in Hard Disk Drives - Failure - Failed - Dead!
Defective Hard Disk Drive Heads
Commonly known as the 'Click of Death'. Your hard drive is on its way out, along
with your data. One of the noisy hd faults.
A common fault which is usually easy to spot. When the drive is initially powered
up, a logic check ensures that the drive has attained the necessary speed before
launching the heads across the platter. If the drive can not attain a 'Ready'
state, the logic is repeated for a pre-determined number of times causing a clicking
sound, after which it stops trying.Your Western Digital HDD hard disk drive now appears dead. Do not run 'software' recovery
programs in this state. They cause Disk I/O read / writes, and this places increased
stress on the heads, which causes errors to be written to the disk, further decreasing
the chances of data recovery.
Crashed Hard Disk Drive Heads
The hard drive is most likely making a grinding and scraping noise. Think dentist
drill, its painful, and thats how it feels for your drive. Sounds nasty and is
stripping the magnetic coating off the platters. Immediately turn the drive off
and disconnect it from your computer. Then call us. Repeated use in this state
is rapidly decreasing the chances of recovery. The sooner we can start the recovery,
the greater the chance of success before it totally corrupts the hard drive data
platter.
Again, do not run 'software' recovery programs in this state. They cause Disk
I/O read / writes, and this places increased stress on the heads, which causes
errors to be written to the disk, further decreasing the chances of data recovery.
Hard Disk Drive Motor Failure
The motor spins usually between 4200rpm upwards to around 15000rpm in todays higher
end desktop drives. It is precisely controlled to enable synchronisation for reading
the data off the platters. It fails in two main ways. The first is fairly obvious,
it simply doesn't spin or won't start. Perhaps due to a power surge, spark or
incorectly plugging the power lead in. You can usually feel a slight vibration
or hear a humming sound on the drive when it powers up. If you can't then it is
likely the motor isn't spinning. Erratic speed variations of the motor may cause
the drive to take an extended period of time to come to the 'Ready' state. Prolonged
or repeatedly powering the drives could well cause further damage. Disconnect
the drive and give us a call for recovery of the data from the drive. Again, do
not run 'software' recovery programs in this state. They cause Disk I/O read /
writes, and this places increased stress on the heads, which causes errors to
be written to the disk, further decreasing the chances of data recovery.
Hard Disk Drive not seen in BIOS
You may wonder what the BIOS is? BIOS stands for Basic Input/Output System
and in simple terms it provides a set of instructions to your computer, telling
it how to start, and interface to the first 'Boot' device. When it has reached
the first boot device, it can receive further instructions from there, and eventually
load your operating system. During the start-up, the BIOS may have failed to detect
the Hard Drive, and therefore is not shown. First check all connections and try
again.
If it still won't work, then the recognition failure may be caused by a number
of factors, eg corrupt boot sector, however, at startup on your computer you can
tell whether the drive is being seen by the system BIOS. Power up the computer,
and look for the on-screen instruction to tell you how to enter the BIOS. Usually
this is achieved by pressing F1, F2 or DEL keys. Examine the menus for options
on viewing the BIOS IDE peripheral setup and set your BIOS to automatically detect
IDE drives. On some BIOSes there is an option to "automatically detect hard
drives now". If you run this option and the computer 'hangs' or appears inactive
for a a minute or more then it is likely that your Hard Disk Drive had failed
to be recognised by the system BIOS.
Power Surge, Reversed Polarity, Power Supply plugged in the wrong way around
This is a frequent occurence - particularly plugging the power lead in the wrong
way around. Despite the shape of the molex connector, the cheaper versions are
often made of soft plastic and can easily be plugged in incorrectly. Often this
results in the drive appearing totally dead with no noise coming from the motor
and an unpleasant burning smell. Similar faults occur when a mains power surge
can damage the computer motherbaord and hard drive circuitry. Immediately unplug
the computer from the mains supply and withdraw the hard drive to a safe place
until recovery can take place.
Useful Data Sheets on Hard Disk Drives We recover data and repair the following
Hard Disk Drives
Western Digital, Fujitsu, IBM, Hitachi, Toshiba, Quantum, Seagate, Conner, TEAC,
Samsung, Kalok, Iomega
Click
here to see a list of hard disks we recover data from or repair when they are
not recognised in BIOS
Hard
Disk Drive Knowledgebase and Database
Fujitsu
MPG3 series Hard Drive Data Sheets
Fujitsu
MPF3 series Hard Drive Data Sheets
Desktop Laptop Notebook USB & Firewire IEEE1394 harddisks
We recover desktop and laptop notebook harddisks, master/slave discdrives, USB
Firewire hard discs, and have our own Class 100 clean room facilities as required
by harddisc manufacturers for rebuilding failed drives.
Repair / Recover fix Mechanical / Electrical / Firmware Hard Diskdrive Problems
Hard Disk Drive not recognised in BIOS. Dropped harddiscs, smoking harddrives!
Hard Disk Drive Noisy, Clicking, Scraping, Sound. Disc Drive Head crashes.
Repair / Recover from following Operating File Systems
Data recovery for FAT FAT32 and NTFS file systems.
Linux with EXT2fs, EXT3, XFS, reiserfs & jfs filesystems on standalone &
RAID volumes
Recover from partitions, even if the boot sector or FAT has been erased or damaged
Recover files with the original time and date stamp
Recover files on network drives
Recover from all Win 95, Win 98, Win ME, NT 4.0, Windows™ XP and Windows™
2000 systems.
Recover / retrieve files in the following situations
- UNC Uncorrectable Data Error - especially Maxtor SATA
- Mains Power Surge
- Reversed power polarity / voltage from incorrectly plugging in power leads or
cable
- Fix Broken Pin or Pins on the Data Cable IDE SATA SCSI Connector
- Corruption of file systems FAT
- Corrupt Files
- Recycle Bin emptied or files were deleted without Recycle Bin
- Hardware or software failures
- Power failure
- HDD (Hard Disk Drive) not recognised in BIOS, computer not detecting harddiscs
- Virus attack
- Formatted Hard drives
- System shutdown
- Partitioning or boot-up sector problems
- Controller pcb Board failure / burnt
- Discdrive making repeated clicking sound
- No spin on diskdrive motor
- Forgotten or Lost Password removal from Hard Disk.
Main
Locations covered for Hard Disk Drive
by Apex Technology UK |
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We have undertaken Hard Disk Drive
repairs & data recovery throughout the UK
from Brighton, London, Birmingham and Manchester.
Hard
Disk Drive Data Recovery covers
Brighton, London, Manchester, Birmingham, Oxford, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Cheshire,
Derbyshire, North West, West Midlands, Walsall, Wolverhampton, Stafford, Newcastle
under Lyme, Stoke on Trent, Stone, Burton on Trent, Lichfield, Shrewsbury, Telford,
Newport, Cannock, Rugeley, Uttoxeter, Keele, Trentham, Blythe Bridge, Cheadle,
Barlaston, Festival Park, Hastings, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, Tamworth,
Bedford, Cambridge, Northampton, Milton Keynes, Cambridgeshire, Peterborough,
Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Middlesex, Norfolk, Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Northamptonshire,
Nottinghamshire, Warwickshire, Atherstone, Stevenage, Luton, Hemel Hempstead,
Glasgow, Scotland, Edinburgh, Fort William, Dundee, Perth, Stirling, Paisley,
Dumfries, Elgin, Peterhead, Fraserburgh, Oban, Basildon, Romford, Chelmsford,
Benfleet, Southampton, Edgbaston, Islington, Macclesfield, Bridgnorth, Bradford,
Sheffield, Leeds, Yorkshire, Fife, Kircaldy, Suffolk, Thetford, Bury St.Edmunds,
Ipswich, Newcastle upon Tyne, South Shields, Sunderland, Northumbria, Middlesborough,
Hartlepool, Preston, Darlington, Rotherham, Penrith, Workington, Lancaster, Durham,
Barrow in Furness, Gateshead, Carlisle, Teeside, Stockton on Tees, Erith, Kent,
Ashford, Northhants, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, Bristol, Swindon, Bournemouth,
Plymouth, Hastings, Maidstone, Southend on sea, Aberdeen, Inverness, Bridgnorth,
Flakirk, Cardiff, Swansea, Chester, Liverpool, Blackpool, Aberystwyth, Wrexham,
Carmarthen, Hull, Norwich, Gloucester, Bridgend, Torquay, Bath, Cantebury, Portsmouth,
Exeter, AbuDhabi, Dubai, Sharajah, Belgium, New Zealand, Epsom, Surrey, Northern Ireland, Belfast,
Dublin, Londonderry, Armagh, Cork, Eire
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WD HDD Data Recovery News
Client Comments
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| 160GB Seagate Firmware 3.AAC not spinning or recognised in computer BIOS |
| 07/04/2008, Nick Hews, Active Computing, Barnstaple, Exeter |
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Just to say thanks from our client for a speedy and successful data recovery. If something like this happens again you will be top of our list to call!
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| Archos USB drive file system not recognised |
| 10/01/2008, Hubna Butt, Bradford, Yorkshire |
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Thank you I have received the recovered dvd. I’d also like to thank you for a very prompt service, if ever I need any media recovering then I shall most definitely be using your company
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| Buffalo Terastation TS-0.6TGL/R5 0.6GB RAID5, E21 chip failure Network Controller. |
| 15/10/2007, Adam Monnery, AppiChar Ltd, London |
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Marvellous, thank you for all you’ve done. The client was very impressed with the speed and level of service… we’ll certainly be using you again!
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News Items
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| Western Digital WD NetCenter Data Recovery |
| 16/06/2007, Apex Technology |
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Apex Technology now offer Data Recovery for the WD NetCenter when it has lost its share folder, or when the NetCentre cannot be viewed through the utility. Recover accidental removal of the Share Folder. Gradual failing or reporting of incorrect file size. Lost File & Folders on the NetCentre. Also recovery from Corrupt Superblock. The Western Digital NetCenter is not visible from a standard Windows system.
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| Netgear SC101 firmware and drive partition data recovery |
| 16/06/2007, Apex Technology |
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Data Recovery for Netgear SC101. Following firmware upgrade the drive partition has been known to disappear. Apex now offers data recovery of files and folders from the SC101. The SC101 uses a proprietary file-system and is not visible from a standard Windows or Linux system. Sometimes (when the SC101 is in Mirror drive mode RAID1 one drive disappears from the system for a while. A user upgrades the firmware and then nothing is visiable on te drive. Contact Apex Technology for data recovery.
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| Adaptec SATA RAID Data Recovery. |
| 17/03/2007, Apex |
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Apex Technology can recover your data from such advanced data protection features which are currently available for the Adaptec SATA2 Serial ATA II RAID 2420SA four-port controller, the Adaptec SATA Serial ATA II RAID 2820SA eight-port controller, the Adaptec Serial Attached SCSI RAID 4800SAS eight-port PCI-X controller and the Adaptec Serial Attached SCSI RAID 4805SAS eight-port PCIe controller. These include Hot Space (RAID 5EE) and Striped Mirror (RAID 1E).
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