Hints from S&R Department
From our experience we know that many customers using their own packaging materials available at hand. The most common of such: plastic bags or zip-bags to enclose their hard drives instead of antistatic ones; crumpled paper as cushioning, instead of foam-rubber or bubble wrap; sometimes the bubbled envelopes are used to ship the small (from laptop) hard drives.
Technically, there is no much difference between the standard packaging and improvised, as long as the failed media packed with precaution and secured firmly inside of package.
Well, the improvised packaging is OK. Just please keep in mind that extra precaution with boxing of your failed media is always a plus.
Shipping instructions
Major Databe Recieving Centers in USA and Canada*
 U.S.A. Shipping Address
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 Canadian Shipping Address
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* We also have a growing list of walk-in and drop-in locations. Those locations with detailed directions, maps, and operating hours will be offered to select from the list in online service form.
Before preparing for shipping your package, you must place an online data recovery order, then print the your order and with shipping insitructions on it.
If you've done with order already, LOGIN to obtain detailed shipping instructions for your order.
The basic shipping hints and examples are provided here to give you a general idea about shipping a failed device to our data recovery lab.
Example 1: Cardboard box with the foam-rubber cushioning:
Example 2: UPS Express box with the bubble wrap cushioning:
You may also follow the common packaging preps to ship a failed hard drive as well as any other failed data storages:
- To ship a BARE hard drive: Remove and retain all brackets, mounting screws and interface adapters unless otherwise instructed.
- To ship the WHOLE unit (external enclosure, laptop, etc.) include all needed accessories and software (like power adapters, cables, drivers, controllers, etc.)
- Place the drive inside a plastic bag (preferable anti-static material or wrap in aluminum foil). Suspend the hard drive in the center of a sturdy box of foam-rubber or bubble wrap around all sides. Use crumpled paper as cushioning material to fill any empty spaces in shipping box.
- We recommend to ship hard drives via air service to minimize handling, such as UPS Express or UPS Expedited services, although the choice of the shipper is yours.
- Include a printed copy of your order in the package along with your failed hard drive and ship out.
- We accept all carrier companies, but advise you to use a shipping method with ability to trace shipment.
- We accept Saturday Delivery shipments before 4pm EST.
It's a good idea to use a shipping service with tracking capabilities, such as
| UPS | 1-800-744-7877 |
| FedEx | 1-800-463-3339 |
| DHL | 1-800-225-5345 |
| Purolator | 1-888-744-7123 |
From Richard G.T. Executive Director, MIS Garden Fresh Restaurant Corp.: Toshiba MK3021GAS laptop - System failed to complete boot process, getting stuck before finished. Attempted to do image backups to an external USB drive using Acronis (Linux based image), it reported errors reading the drive, and when errors were ignored and only backed up 200 MB(compressed) of what should be 6 GB(compressed)Attempted to install as a second drive in a desktop, drive was detected but could not be properly recognized. Drive spins and does not click. BIOS HDD Self test causes the drive to spin, reports Read Failure.
Everything has worked out just fine, thank you very much for your work.
Rich T.
From H-Tzer C. Geneva SWITZERLAND: Western Digital WD10JPVT laptop - Not spinning
Thank you for the nice work done. I received the recovered data on the external HDD. Sure I'll recommend you to anyone if needed.
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...
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