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Data Recovery from mechanically well-functioning Hard Drive

Before using a data recovery software you must make sure that Software recovery tools can be applied only to the fully functional hard drive in the working condition. It must be obvious that you have a mechanically and electrically functional hard in your hands before continuing working with running device and applying any kind of drive-interacting software and manipulations, including data recovery software utilities.

Computer's UEFI/BIOS has to correctly identify the model of the drive, of course.

Moreover, even if the drive is detected by computer, it is not nearly enough to say for sure that your drive is 100% functional. The drive is fully functional only if all sectors on the disks are readable. When the drive has problem with accessing the sectors (for instance: if of one of the heads is damaged, or drive has a damaged surface, i.e. micro scratches), any attempts to use software data recovery tools lead to the further data damage, very often making data recovery impossible.

Before using any recovery utilities, be sure your drive is fully functional: mechanically and electrically.

If you suspect any of hardware problems:

  • Do NOT run any repair utility as they can further aggravate the problem. The purpose of such utilities and what they are made for is to rectify the anomalies in the file system, but useless against other issues
  • Do NOT let anybody, even your support engineer, aka IT support experimenting with the failed media.
  • Do NOT keep working on the media.

If you hear any of strange noises (grinding or clicking) coming from your hard drive this can be an indication of a hardware/physical problem. Continuing to operate your system may damage your hard drive beyond repair and/or cause permanent data loss. Professional data recovery company is the only solution for such situation, do NOT delay and apply for its service while the data is still recoverable.
Start right now and right here, by placing data recovery order with us, our professional engineers with many years of extensive experience in data recovery are capable and will save your data, doing the job right from the start point.

Is my Hard Drive functioning properly?

Something is going on with my hard drive and I don't know what to do about it.

Here we'd like to give you a few tips from HD-repair specialist that you might find useful in regarding how to instantly detect what's wrong with your suspiciously behaving hard drive.

If the hard drive does not show any signs of life, such as no sign of the light humming sound of rotating motor, it can be an indication of circuit elements failure, a pure mechanical problem with the stuck motor spindle, or even both. The noisy drives with distinctive clicking/ticking or screeching alerting sounds have a reading heads system failure in most cases. If so, that is the most dangerous hazard that causes the instant damage to data on disks.

The better prognosis for successful or satisfactory data recovery may have a hard drive that has no signs of physical damage, and yet it is inaccessible for reading data and even undetectable by computer's CMOS.

Sometimes you may learn about drive malfunctions by reading the various error messages related to failing hard drive right from the computer screen.

At any signs of drive failure it's a good idea to replace it by new one and not to play with the faulty one that contains the important files on it. Taking it straight to a good professional HDD-restoration lab; otherwise any improper attempt to fix the problem may render drive condition to unrecoverable. Then, even the best drive clinic will not help you.

A Laptop Hard Drive intalled inside MacBook PC

From previous data restoration projects

How to recover Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001
I believe Windows 10 was doing and update and it looked like it was in a 'loop' of some kind ... stopped it after 2hrs. Tried to use Win 10 recovery disc made when system was upgraded from Win7 to Win10 … nothing!! Used a SATA to USB bridge (powered) but couldn’t see none of C:/Boot and D:/Data disks and it indicated no files found. Tried Disk Management on my other PC and it basically gave the same info.
Nothing else was done. Hardware is intact. Files to Recover: Most important is the D: Data partition
Likely folders under something - Personal, Quicken, Projects - something like that.
Excellent result. North York ON

Western Digital WD10EADS WD Caviar Green Hard drive squeaking
The failed hard drive is producing very clicking noise.
As always A+++. Thanks for your services. Great Job! NCR CANADA LTD Waterloo, ON Canada

Client: IBM Inc. , Waldwick, New Jersey with Western Digital WD20EURS; This is another failed hard drive we are sending in for data retrieving. The faulty hard drive is part of WD Elements Desktop external data storage, stopped working without giving any prior warnings.
For the second time you are giving us the excellent data recovery. We are so grateful for all of your support. Thank you.