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Basic hard drive check for data recovery professionals

May 23, 2018 No Comments Data Recovery

The next steps can save beginner users from making mistakes when working on user drives.

1. Hold that drive with your hand and carefully shake it from side to side, and then listen if there are any moving parts bouncing inside. Powering the drive in this situation is dangerous, since it may lead to platter scratch. In the case where you can hear sound of bouncing parts inside the drive it is better to estimate your skills and ask permission from drive owner for opening the drive’s LID and checking hard drive internal parts.
2. When no suspicious sounds were discovered while shaking the drive, it worth to check its logic board. Its always a good idea to take off the board and see what happened to its pads on the other side, since they damage very often. Clean the contacts with rubber eraser or a spirit and put the board back. Also check the elements on that board. Maybe you can discover a broken fuze unit or any removed or resoldered elements on that board. That is very important for new drives, which have adaptive data in the ROM.
3. Carefully check the top label and see if it is torn off above the screws on the top lid. That could be somebody else having worked on this drive before you.
The above three steps will determine the chances of success on any physically damaged hard drive. In case all goes wrong, you can contact data recovery experts.

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DATA RECOVERY TIPS

November 8, 2015 No Comments Data Recovery

Have you Lost Data? Your Next Steps are very Crucial!

To avoid permanent data loss, follow these simple steps:

  • If your hard drive is making clicking, grinding or whirring sounds, shut down the drive or your computer immediately. These sounds could be the read/write heads hitting or scraping the hard disk platters. Severe or complete data loss could result.
  • If your data is important, make sure you choose a reputable recovery firm that can properly recover data from mechanically failed or physically damaged drives. Even the simplest recovery attempts could render your data unrecoverable.
  • Avoid “home remedies” you may have read about on the web such as placing a non-spinning hard drive in a freezer or hitting a drive on its side. Much of this information is inaccurate and while some may claim success, these suggestions may actually harm the device and could lead to permanent data loss. We recommend that you do not gamble with your irreplaceable data.
  • The first recovery attempt is always the best recovery attempt. At East Africa Recovery Experts, our engineers use the safest methods available to ensure your data is not lost from repeated recovery attempts.

Preventing Data Loss

Everyone should adopt strategies to ensure critical information is protected from corruption and loss.

Best Practices:

  • Never upgrade to a new version of an operating system without having a verified backup
  • Use up-to-date hardware and software utilities for data security, such as firewalls and virus protection
  • Scan all incoming data; such as emails, websites and downloads for viruses and malware
  • Connect computers to an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) to protect against power surges
  • Avoid static discharge when touching or handling any storage media, especially in excessively dry environments
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