Hard Disk Drive HDD Data Recovery

What happens when we repair a Hard Drive / Hard Disc / Hard Disk?

Apex Technology provide a Professional Hard Disk Drive Repair and Data Recovery Service. We have the specialist hardware to fix your HDD HardDisk / HardDisc / HardDrive and recover the data from the drive. Although the harddisk undergoes repair, we never recommend using them again for data storage.
Usually by the time a HDD hard drive reaches us it is the last chance to recover the data from it. The hard disk undergoes repair purely to extract the data from it. We repair all types of faulty hard disks electronic, software, virus, firmware problems. We repair Desktop & Laptop Notebook Hard disk drives IDE ATA drives, Serial-ATA SATA drive repairs.

When is it time to call a specialist Hard Disk Drive Repair Centre?

There are various faults that you may observe during the harddrive or harddisc operation. Discs can go faulty, we have seen many cases including smoke, firmware, not spinning/starting.

We recover data in the UK from the following Hard Disks

Western Digital, Fujitsu, IBM, Hitachi, Toshiba,Quantum, Seagate, Lacie, Conner, TEAC, Samsung, Kalok, Iomega

Hard Disk Drive Motor Failure

The motor spins usually between 4200rpm upwards to around 15000rpm in todays higher end desktop drives. It is precisely controlled to enable synchronisation for reading the data off the platters. It fails in two main ways. The first is fairly obvious, it simply doesn't spin or won't start. Perhaps due to a power surge, spark or incorectly plugging the power lead in. You can usually feel a slight vibration or hear a humming sound on the drive when it powers up. If you can't then it is likely the motor isn't spinning. Erratic speed variations of the motor may cause the drive to take an extended period of time to come to the 'Ready' state. Prolonged or repeatedly powering the drives could well cause further damage. Disconnect the drive and give us a call for recovery of the data from the drive. Again, do not run 'software' recovery programs in this state. They cause Disk I/O read / writes, and this places increased stress on the heads, which causes errors to be written to the disk, further decreasing the chances of data recovery.

Hard Disk Drive not seen in BIOS

You may wonder what the BIOS is? BIOS stands for Basic Input/Output System and in simple terms it provides a set of instructions to your computer, telling it how to start, and interface to the first 'Boot' device. When it has reached the first boot device, it can receive further instructions from there, and eventually load your operating system. During the start-up, the BIOS may have failed to detect the Hard Drive, and therefore is not shown. First check all connections and try again.

If it still won't work, then the recognition failure may be caused by a number of factors, eg corrupt boot sector, however, at startup on your computer you can tell whether the drive is being seen by the system BIOS. Power up the computer, and look for the on-screen instruction to tell you how to enter the BIOS. Usually this is achieved by pressing F1, F2 or DEL keys. Examine the menus for options on viewing the BIOS IDE peripheral setup and set your BIOS to automatically detect IDE drives. On some BIOSes there is an option to "automatically detect hard drives now". If you run this option and the computer 'hangs' or appears inactive for a a minute or more then it is likely that your Hard Disk Drive had failed to be recognised by the system BIOS.

Repair / Recover from following Operating File Systems

Data recovery for FAT FAT32 and NTFS file systems.
Linux with EXT2fs, EXT3, XFS, reiserfs & jfs filesystems on standalone & RAID volumes
Recover from partitions, even if the boot sector or FAT has been erased or damaged
Recover files with the original time and date stamp
Recover files on network drives
Recover from all Win 95, Win 98, Win ME, NT 4.0, Windows™ XP and Windows™ 2000 systems.

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