by Digby Saunders | Mar 24, 2014 | Data Recovery, Hard Drive Electronics, Hard Drive Firmware
It is quite common to encounter firmware corruption on Seagate Hard Drives of all their models but the latest Seagate drives the 7200.14 have added a new twist. The Seagate 7200.11 and 7200.12 drives had the familiar busy error where the drive does not show up in you...
by Digby Saunders | Oct 6, 2013 | Data Recovery, FAT filesystem, NTFS Filesystem
File Systems File systems describe the records and indexes that an Operating System (Windows , Linux) use to retrieve and store data on the hard drive. Before we talk about the simplest filesystem FAT it is important to note all windows based hard drives contain 2...
by Digby Saunders | Jul 17, 2013 | Data Recovery, Hard Drive Firmware
OK we have got our hard drive with all it’s parts working properly what else can go wrong? Well as explained previously the data is contained on the magnetic surface of the drive and this surface can fail. In addition the data written to it can be corrupted and...
by Digby Saunders | Jul 15, 2013 | Data Recovery, Hard Drive Electronics
A frequent response I receive from customers when I try explain the Data Recovery process is “I don’t care about the Hard Drive I just want the data back”. Unfortunately much of the time the reason for the data loss is damage to the hard drive and...
by Digby Saunders | Jul 10, 2013 | Backup Systems, Data Recovery, Hard Drive Electronics, Hard Drives
You have gone and purchased a Backup drive such as a Western Digital My Book Essential and backed up all your important data or you have had to transfer data from your computer’s hard drive because it has become too full. You now feel the warm glow of securing...
