Hard Disk Drives (HDD) are electromechanical devices that store data on discs called Platters that rotate at speeds of 5400 to 15,000 rpm and read using Magnetic or Magneto Resistive Read/ Write heads. Solid State Drives (SSD) are a new entrant that stores persistent data in solid state memory while emulating a hard disk drive interface, easily replacing HDDs in most applications.
We are well experienced and fully equipped in recovering data from different drive interfaces like: -
- 3.5’’ Desktop drives in IDE (PATA), SATA, SCSI, Hot Swappable SCSI, Serial SCSI (SAS) etc.
- 2.5’’ Notebook Hard Drives in IDE (PATA) or SATA interface.
- 1.8’’ Notebook Hard Drives (Micro HDDs with ATA/ Flex or ZIF interface)
- 1.0’’ Hard Drives used in iPods etc. (HDDs with CFII or ZIF interface)
- SSD (Solid State Drive) drives
Common problems among Hard Drives include: -
- Hard drives not mounting on the desktop or not being recognized by the operating system.
- Drives making noise (not getting recognized by system BIOS also).
- Drives getting detected by BIOS but not recognized by Operating System.
- Drives often detected as Factory alias (like Maxtor N40P) due to corrupt System Area/ Firmware.
- Drives with burnt Logic board / Spindle motor / Pre amplifier units etc.
- Drives that won't spin up due to electronic failure or frozen spindles.
- Invalid or corrupt FAT/NTFS partitions.
- Drives whose partitions recreated and or formatted.
- Drives that were ghosted with another operating system.
- Drives with physical/ structural damage, such as being dropped.
- Other problems such as deleted files, formatted disks, or virus attacks etc.
- Unreadable/ corrupted mailbox files (.pst, .ost, .dbx or edb), MS Office files, ZIP files etc
