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Data Recovery from
Dell, HP, Sony, Samsung, Toshiba,
Fujitsu
All makes including 2.5"inch and 1.8"inch
Notebook hard drives   
  
Common Faults observed in Hard Disk Drives
- Failure - Failed - Dead
Blue Screen of Death
We often get laptops that have failed
to boot up or partially boot into windows
before ending in the Blue Screen Error message.
This is commonly known as the Blue Screen
of Death or BSOD. We recover the files and
folders from such problems.
Hard Drive failing to spin up / small
creaking sound
Sometimes the first thing you know is
that the hard drive has failed to be found
by the laptop BIOS or Operating System is
not found. On closer inspection you may
find the drive emits a small creaking /
groaning sound as though it is trying to
spin up but is having trouble. However there
is no vibration or hum sound that you would
normally hear or feel when it boots up normally.
We can fix / repair this problem and recover
your data.
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.
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.
Repair / Recover fix
Electrical / Firmware Hard Diskdrive Problems
Hard Disk Drive not recognised in BIOS.
smoking harddrives!
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
- 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
- No spin on diskdrive motor
- Forgotten or Lost Password removal from
Hard Disk
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Laptop Notebook
& Data Recovery Repair
Recent
Client Comments
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Fujitsu 30GB Notebook Hard Disk Data Recovery - Web-Ideas.com Limited. Cranfield Bedfordshire UK 17/05/2009, Web-Ideas.com Limited.
I cant say how grateful I am for the work and effort Apex placed in recovering my data. Its difficult to put a price on recovery, and it is only when you receive the recovery disk, you realise how much was lost, and the potential cost to the business had it not been recoverable. Having arrived in at 6am this morning, both my laptop and me personally are now restored to harmony. Thank you again for your kind efforts and excellence in this matter.
Toshiba Notebook Data Recovery - 20GB - SIBSoftware Limited. Athertstone Warwickshire UK 11/05/2009, SIBSoftware Limited.
I was not hopeful of recovering any data as the hard drive had suffered a serious impact and was not recognised by the computer. When booting the hard disk made loud clicking noise when powered up. I took the drive to an authorised Toshiba dealer who replaced the drive's IDE interface pcb, but this did not yield results and they recommended I send it to a specialist data recovery company.
Having looked into other data recovery companies I was surprised by Apex Technology's 'no recovery, no fee' offer, especially when they ordered a new donor drive to rebuild my failed unit, stating that there would be no fee if my data was not recovered.
After initial contact by phone I delivered my drive to Apex at 8am on a Friday to find that they had already sourced the donor drive and would begin work the same day. After several calls from Apex to keep me informed of progress the data was ready for me to collect on Saturday at 6pm. I was delighted to find Apex had managed to recover all my files, not just folders I had previously selected as a high priority!
Needless to say I am delighted to have recovered my data and highly recommend Apex Technology to others.
Dell Notebook Hard Drive File Recovery - RJCA Development, Kingston Jamaica 19/04/2009, RJCA Developments.
We had a 48GB IBM Hard Drive in a Dell Inspiron Laptop holding several years of accounts and contract information. After failure the IBM hard disk would not boot up the computer. After no success with local data recovery companies,
we couried the hard drive to Apex Technology for Data
Recovery. They successfully recovered Excel Spreadsheets,
Word Documents and emailed them back to us within 48
hours to allow business critical work to continue. DVD's were posted with the complete set of data recovered totaling 15GB including emails, address book
Outlook Express
Apex Technology - you achieved miracles and we were delighted with your customer service, response times and attention to detail. We have no hesitation in recommending you to anyone else. Thank you.
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Laptop
Notebook Data Recovery Repair Archive
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