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...
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...
