Are there Instances where Lost Data cannot be recovered?

 

Yes, there are instances where the damage to the hard drive is so severe that data recovery is not possible.

There is neither magic power nor miracle in the real world that can recover the lost data from the scratched, extremely corrupted hard drive, or the drive with overwritten sectors. That is why - as professional and honest as we are - no data recovery specialist ever can guarantee the successful recovery outcome beforehand, based on the described symptoms from the customer.

Speaking from our experience, almost every failed hard drive is recoverable only if it is timely brought to our attention, i.e. at the first signs of initial crash. It's really hard to understand why some people postpone bringing the failed device to the professional care in the desperate attempt to revive it, thereby causing the data media slowly die – making data unrecoverable. Something that could be easily avoided, if were brought to the attention of the professionals.

Developing Scratches on Hard Disk Platters

1. When the drive starts failing, there are no visible scratches on the internal disk platters, that covered with the thin magnetic layer – that is practically the DATA!

The disk platters remain clean and shiny...yet:

No scratches on failing HDD yet

2. As soon the first visible scratch lands on the surface, that drive is doomed to die very quick...

Here we go - First visible scratch

3. And finally, what we have now: Absolutely unrecoverable drive. The scratches are all over the platters, the filter (shown with the red arrow) turned black from the dust. The conclusion: drive is brought down to a complete waste - too late to recover anything from one.

Ruined Hard Drive - lost data

Don't bring your crashed drive to both hopeless and beyond recoverable condition. Don't postpone and take it out for professional investigation and data salvaging. We guarantee to recover from your drive everything what is yet possibly recoverable on it and you won't be charged for our labor in those rare and unfortunate situations where no data is recoverable or the recovery outcome is not up to your satisfaction.

From Benjamin L. Malibu, CA USA: Fujitsu MHT2040AH laptop - Events:
The computer was on the ground and a person accidentally kicked the side of the computer (exactly where the hard drive is located).
Recovery Attempts (3 months ago):
1.) Used an enclosure to try to extract data. Failed.
2.) Tried to bypass the OS by booting Linux from a CD. Failed.
3.) Sent it to a hard drive specialist's company. They couldn't do it for under $500, so I got it back. Failed.
However, the actual hard drive was never manually tampered with.

THANK YOU! Got it all back, looks perfect...

From Karen L. US District Court Fresno, CA USA: Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 ST3500841AS 500 Gb external - Drive is failed in OS
Attempts by IT guy - not successful; says hardware problem. IO error. He did take apart the case.

Thank you so much!!! I am really frilled by your outstanding services! My highly recommendations to anyone in need of fixing this kind of disaster I'd gone through. Superb!!!

From Off The Front Marketing Tracy S. Bend, OR USA: Seagate ST3120022A external - Unable to access the drive. Was connected to a test machine by local IT professional and wasn't able to see in BIOS.

Thanks for what looks to be a great job so far. Thanks again, what speedy job you've done. ...I'll definitely write a recommendation for you guys and let other know about your services.

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