Western Digital Data Recovery

Western Digital Data Recovery from a dropped 3.5″ hard drive, we expected to have to change some internal components.  We tried the drive first on the Deepspar Imager and didn’t expect to get any valuable data without spending money on some Western Digital donor parts to repair.  Oh how wrong we were.

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This is the picture from the DDI during the hard drive data recovery process, as you can see the white squares is where the imager has detected the area cant be read and skips to the next block.  This process can take a few hours to a few days depending on the hard drive problem.  Western digital drives are know for a slow responding issue.

This is only the first pass, the beginning of the drive to the end, the second pass goes from the end of the drive to the start and uses various methods to try and read the data that wasn’t read first time around.  A very handy bit of kit.   At some in the process this drive had over 2million unreadable blocks of data.

As you can see we managed to get this down to 843295, most of this was empty space on the drive so no data loss.

And here is the recovered file list.  This customer was very lucking, usually when a hard drive has an impact internal parts need to be changed, to do this we would need to obtain a drive exactly the same to get the parts off.

Our Edinburgh base lab is fully equipped to deal with any Western Digital Hard Drive Data Recovery.  Be it internal, external, PC, Mac or Linux or Nas at JT Data Recovery we can help.  Free quotes, fixed prices for any data recovery task and no data no fee

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Macbook Data Recovery Edinburgh

Customer popped in with this Apple Macbook for data recovery after visiting the Edinburgh Apple Store requiring data recovery.  They thought that the hard drive was faulty.  As Apple Edinburgh  don’t offer a data recovery service the customer got in touch with us.  Luckily this drive was in the early stages of failure.  It was a fairly straight forward Apple Macbook data recovery case for us.  It was the usual low capacity HGST hard drive that Apple fit to the older Mac’s.

The usual HGST hard drive inside a Mac Book of this vintage, only about 500gb.  Not seen by the Mac book operating system.  This can be caused by the hard drive cable.  This was checked, but was confirmed as a hard drive issue.  We will changed the Mac hard drive cable anyway.  These are very poor quality and don’t last very long.

Apple Data Recovery in Edinburgh

This is a Deepsar Imager, the machine is designed to get data off drives which are in the process of failing before they fail permanently.  In this case it did its job perfectly.

As you can see we have a full image of the faulty hard drive, next we will strip and clean the Mac book and fit  500gb SSD drive to speed up the Macbook Pro , then copy over the customers recovered data.   Good as new and much faster than it was.

At JT Data Recovery we can take care of all your Macbook, Macbook Pro, Macbook Air and Imac Data Recovery issue’s.  Our JT Data Recovery lab is equipped with the latest technology to enable us to offer both Hard drive and Mac SSD data recovery services in the Edinburgh and Lothians’s Area.

JT offer free fixed price quotes and fixed prices before the recovery is started with a strict no data no fee policy.

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Pro Data Recovery Edinburgh – JT Data Recovery

Pro Data Recovery Edinburgh.  This is a drive dropped in yesterday for evaluation.  Apparently the customers father thought he could help so decided to open the drive and try to fix it.  As you can see the dust and finger prints have wrecked any chance of getting data from it. Dust and finger prints wreck hard drives.  Thats not to mention someone playing with the head assembly stack and powering on the drive with the top cover off.

Free Evaluation – At JT Data Recovery we offer a free evaluation on any drive to ensure if you need hard drive data recovery you will stand a good chance of getting your data back,  in person or by posting the drive to us.

This is to avoid an ancident like this where the customer has many years of University work for her course on this drive.  Her father was only trying to help but without knowing has rendered the hard drive a paper weight.

Please seek advice before trying to recover hard drive data.  If in doubt please give us a call and ask for John.

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Maxtor Data Recovery Edinburgh

Another one for Monday morning, the dreaded I’ve formatted my drive. Looks like a drive fit for R studio. The customer called us needing data recovery for this Maxtor portable hard drive but she wasn’t based in Edinburgh.  She had managed to format the drive by accident.  Lucky for her a friend was on hand to be able to drop the Maxtor portable drive into us at the office.

Maxtor Hard Drive Recovery

The first thing to do with a formatted drive is to take a forensic copy of this Maxtor external Hard Drive.  We then work from the copy of the customers original drive.  Should anything go wrong during the data recovery process then we can still refer back to the original customers drive.  First rule of data recovery is cause no further damage.

Once we have a copy of the customers drive we then use a program called R Studio to search for any partition that has ever been on the drive.  If we find the partition then we can try to extract the user data from it.  If no partition is found then the only option is to use R Studio to scan the whole drive for Raw data.  On this data recovery job we found a partition and the customer only lost a small amount of data.  The file structure and folder names of the files has been maintained.  This is good as a Raw recovery may have weird and wonderful file names which makes it difficult for the customer to identify usable data.

At JT Data Recovery we are data recovery Specialists based in Edinburgh.  One of the few truly independent Data Recovery Companies where all the work is performed at our Edinburgh office.  We do not outsource any of our data recovery jobs.

Our customers security and piece of mind are priceless.

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Seagate Portable Hard Drive Recovery – Seagate Data Recovery Specialist

The customer handed in this Seagate portable hard drive for data recovery. This was a rush job as the pictures on the drive needed to be sent for publication the next day.  To her credit she knew something was wrong and she call us first thing.  At JT Data Recovery Edinburgh we ran our Seagate hard drive evaluation.  We  found the external hard drive had weak heads.  On imaging the data we decided to take the risk as the customer needed the data tomorrow first thing if not later the same day.  If we had to source a donor drive for new heads this would take a few days.

Hard Drive Data Recovery Leith – Edinburgh

Anyway this was one of those jobs that feels great.  The customers world was about to be shattered and potentially lose a lot of money.  This drive was handed in at 10am in the morning.  The customer was able to collect the recovered data around 5:30pm the same day.  Now that’s what I call service.

At Jt Data recovery we take pride in offering an affordable data recovery service for any make and model of hard drive be it portable, external, Nas, Mac or PC.  We have invested heavily over the last few years in the latest technology to be able to offer industry leading success rates in data recovery.  As we are actually based in Edinburgh customer can have a hard drive problem evaluated while they wait, including our fixed price guarantee.  No data no fee.

If you have a Seagate data recovery issue then feel free to pop into our office or give us a call for free advice.  In the long run this could save time and money.

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