Back Up Your Data !
There is a great variation in the problems with which we are confronted at Dataclinic. They generally involve some kind of data recovery, often after the failure of a hard disk or a Raid system, but...
View ArticleTen “To Do’s” should your hard drive fail…
Ten Steps to Aid Recovery of your Data if your Hard Drive Fails… 1. Be aware – How does your hard drive or data storage system behave normally, how fast is it usually, what messages do you normally get...
View ArticleHelium Filled Hard Drives… Will They Take Off?? (There’s a joke there…)
(see, the jokes have started already and the article hasn’t even begun yet!) The announcement late last year that the HGST (Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) division of Western Digital were...
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More Success for DataClinic’s Advanced Data Recovery Service
It’s been a good month so far for DataClinic’s Advanced Data Recovery (ADR) service. We’ve currently seen 4 hard drives whose data had been declared unrecoverable by other data recovery companies. Good...
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Advanced Data Recovery Case Study – 750GB Seagate Barracuda
Data Clinic’s Advanced Data Recovery Service goes from Strength to Strength We’ve just completed the successful recovery a badly damaged 750GB Seagate hard drive that came to us all the way from...
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They Did What ??!! – Episode 1
“They Did What ??!!” is an irregular feature documenting some of the funny, strange and sometimes ludicrous things people have tried in order to get data back from faulty hard disks… Episode 1 – The PC...
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A Wonderful Location To Get Work From
If you think of a few places across the globe that are remote and difficult to get to, Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia will probably be on your list. Originally founded in 1693 as a Buddhist centre...
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DataClinic Ltd Sign A Historic Data Recovery Deal With Seagate
Since 2002, Data Clinic Ltd, the UK’s leading data recovery company has successfully recovered data from faulty and broken hard disk drives for thousands of companies, organisations and people across...
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Ok, so what is a headcrash exactly ???
We’ve all heard the term “HEADCRASH” and know it means something bad has happened to our data and hard drive, but what exactly is a headcrash ? and what does it mean ?? Ok, see the photo above?...
View ArticleWhat Are the Most Common Server Failures You Could Encounter?
Some businesses are happy to rent space on a shared server rather than having one of their own. However if your business expands into a much larger going concern, you may find it is easier and more...
View ArticleRemember: Prevention is Always Better than Cure
No we’re not talking about being poorly – we’re talking about data retrieval. You alone know the value of your own data, and if you’re eager to ensure it stays safe from harm, you should focus on...
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A Head’s Up on NAS
What is NAS?… Do you know?? It stands for Network Attached Storage and as our individual needs for data storage grow and grow, so do the appeal of NAS devices. Here’s a 30 second guide to NAS – with,...
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Recovery Completed For Everton FC
Data Recovery For Everton Football Club We’ve just successfully recovered a PGP encrypted hard drive for Everton FC. Not entirely straightforward but nothing the brainboxes who are our recovery team...
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Data Recovery on RAID 1+0 Servers
RAID 1+0 is a blend of RAID 1 and RAID 0 setups and requires a minimum of four disks to build. In a RAID1+0 set up, the data is first mirrored across two drives (a RAID 1) and then striped to the other...
View ArticleGet hard drive help at this new web site
Data Recovery Tips Is a new website with a unique concept: It provides online hard drive fault diagnosis by describing, in detail, the various types of hard drive fault. If you have a broken hard disk...
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A Common Fault on WD1002FBYS Disks Found ??
We’ve had several of these drives in for recovery now and noticed some common failure symptoms in some cases. It appears that if power is taken from the drive suddenly the drive “kicks back” and moves...
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How Easy It Is To Recover Data After It’s Been Deleted ?
Recovering data from a formatted drive is often easier than you might think. This post looks at how software can recover data from a hard disk drive that has been formatted or had data deleted from it....
View ArticleHow To Spot Imminent Hard Disk Failure
Unlike most of a computer’s components, the hard disk is mechanical and can be damaged by both mechanical and electrical factors. As a result, the hard disk is particularly vulnerable to damage and...
View ArticleData Recovery from SSD Hard Drives
SSDs (Solid State Drives) are different from conventional hard disk drives (HDD’s) in many ways – the biggest of which is that they don’t contain any mechanical moving parts. Now, when you drop an HDD...
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The RAID Rebuild Process
When a RAID rebuild fails a considered and calm approach is necessary in order to successfully retrieve the data. Rebuilding a RAID is a complex software driven process that is built into many RAID...
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