Toshiba Data Recovery Edinburgh- Portable Hard Drive Recovery Edinburgh

Data Recovery from a Toshiba External Hard Drive in our Edinburgh Based Office.  This is the offending drive.  The Customer reported yet again that the drive was getting very slow when in use.  The first indication of a problem was the customers laptop switched itself off and restarted.  She decided to disconnect the drive and start the laptop.  All was fine.  She then reconnected the hard drive only for it to switch off straight away.

We connected the Toshiba portable drive to our imaging machine to start the data recovery process.  We tried to get the drive to ID.  This took about 30 minutes.  Working through the various setting that we can use to maxmize the chances of a drive to ID.

After we got access to the drive you can see its going to take around 12 hours to copy on the first pass.   Only 92% of the drive to go.

Bit Locker Encryption

Another complication in this case was the Toshiba drive had Bit-locker encryption on it, fortunately the customer new the password and in the next photo you will see the drive unlock and the file list. External drive recovery with a Bitlocker encrypted drive can sometimes be a problem.  If only a partial data recovery is possible then sometimes the portable hard drive wont unlock.

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And here is a censored file list.

At JT Data Recovery we can help withe any Toshiba data recovery case.  Our policy is to evaluate the drive and give the customer a fixed price for our data recovery service, we are one of the few truly independent data recovery companies in the Edinburgh and Lothian’s.

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CCTV Data Recovery Edinburgh – Seagate

CCTV data recovery Edinburgh.  This Seagate Nas drive was recording CCTV footage for a security companies client.   The power to the office suddenly switched off.  When the power came back on in the office there must have been a power spike or something.

The Seagate hard drive looked ok but when the PCB was taken off you could see the burn marks on the back of the board.

After fixing the hard drive PCB, we managed to get power to the hard drive.  Unfortunatley this didn’t help us much.  We decided to connect the faulty PCB to PC3000 and read the hard drive Rom.  We would copy this to a replacement PCB.

This turned out to be the case.  We set to work on the Seagate hard drive CCTV data recovery process.  The copy process, we call it imaging took around 8 hours.    The drive speed and head speed all looked good.

The data was recovered 100%.  The customer arrived and checked all the data was good. 

JT Data Recovery in Edinburgh is a one of the few fully independent data recovery specialist companies in Edinburgh.  We can recover data that the average computer repair shop cant.  We invest thousands of pounds a year in specialist data recovery training, hardware and software.  This enables us to offer industry leading data recovery rates for any make and model of hard drive or SSD drive.

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Our free data evaluation from our Edinburgh office will give you a reason for the failure, the chances of data recovery being a success and a fixed cost for the service.  Remember we have strict no data no fee policy.

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SSD Data Recovery Edinburgh – SSD Data Recovery Specialist

SSD Data Recovery Edinburgh. 

This customer had reported his laptop had been running slow.  This shouldn’t be the case as it has a super fast SSD drive inside.   After a few days the laptop could not boot up.  Checking the Bios we found the the drive wasn’t even detected.   After taking the laptop  apart we ran the evaluation tests on the faulty SSD drive. 

As you can see after changing some settings in the DDI machine we managed to get access to the SSD Drive.  We then started to try and copy the contents of the SSD drive. This was a very slow process which took about 3 days to complete.  The good news is it was a full recovery and the customer was delighted with the results.

SSD Drives the positive and the negative.

On this positive news we quickly ordered up a replacement Samsung SSD drive for the customer.  This SSD will be fitted and a clean install of Windows 10 installed before I copy over all the data recovered.

Just a few positive notes on SSD drives:

No moving parts inside.

Extends the battery life of your laptop or Macbook

Really can speed up and old laptop, PC or Macbook.

They can usually take an impact or two.

Just a few negative notes on SSD Drive:

They can be very difficult to recover, needing specialist tools like PC 3000 with SSD add on.

Most of the failures are down to the on board controller.

If an SSD fails, you might not get any warning.

SSD drives by their nature do a have an inbuild life span.

At JT Data Recovery we have the tools to help with any SSD related Data Recovery Job.  Our Edinburgh based Lab is one of the few strictly indepenedent data recovery companies in the Edinburgh and Lothain’s area.

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WD My Passport Data Recovery

Our Edinburgh office received this WD Passport in for data recovery.  Little did we know how much time and effort this drive was going to take.  We knew from the customer that the drive had been dropped.  We had already advised her the that the chances of data recovery would be slim.  The donor drive was in stock so a little time was saved here.  After changing the heads we would normally get a full data recovery done in an afternoon.

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As you can see this is going to take along time.  The drive did Id and allow access every time its connected.  However the data imaging process is very very slow.  One of the longest data recovery jobs I’ve ever seen.  Data recovery too 7 weeks.

At JT Data Recovery we have the time and dedication to get your data back.  Unlike the big national data recovery companies we will spend time on the more difficult cases if the data required is critical.

We can handle any Western Digital hard drive data recovery case.  From faulty USB3 and USB C cable connection problems to faulty encrypted Smart Ware external drives, we can help.

Smart ware encryption is active in some WD external hard drives.  We can recover your data and bypass the encryption during the drive recovery process with PC 3000.  PC 3000 is the industry leading data recovery hardware and software solution.  Any specialist data recovery company will have at least one of these machines.

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