by Digby Saunders | Dec 16, 2017 | Data Recovery, Deleted Files, Hard Drives, NTFS Filesystem, Raw Recovery
A client came to me with a failing 1 terabyte seagate hard drive and he desparately needed his Chief Architect files to be recovered. Chief Architect is a 3D design tool primarily for the design of houses which my client now did in his retirement , interestingly...
by Digby Saunders | Aug 19, 2017 | Data Recovery, firmware corruption, Hard Drive Firmware
Here at Data Recovery Perth we have been using DFL Firmware Repair tools for approx 2 years now and I have found this tool essential in the repair of hard drive firmware and data recovery in general for Seagate, Western Digital, Samsung and Hitachi drives. My goal in...
by Digby Saunders | Jul 9, 2016 | Data Recovery, Deleted Files, NTFS Filesystem
I recently received a call from a distressed farmer who had driven 4 hours from Southern Cross because his GPS device attached to his tractor had received a power surge and would no longer boot up. These devices are used by farmers to track where chemicals have been...
by Digby Saunders | Nov 4, 2014 | Data Recovery, Hard Drive Electronics, Hard Drive Firmware
Diagnosis of a damaged PCB One of the first steps in Data Recovery is assessing the health of the electronics of a hard drive and a replacement of the PCB should occur if The PCB appears damaged If the hard drive does not spin up then it is usually due to a damaged...
by Digby Saunders | Apr 23, 2014 | Data Recovery, firmware corruption, Hard Drive Electronics, Hard Drive Firmware
I use data recovery tools from Salvation Data which are specifically designed for Western Digital and Seagate hard drives and they are essential in my daily work when assessing the health of a hard drive. These tools allow you to do the following tasks; Diagnose...
