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...
