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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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