UK based data recovery company?
Hey
Not quite sure were to ask this but id imagine most people here have needed such a company in the past.
One of my external HDDs died on me a while back, multiple PCs wont read it, nor can I get anything from it directly once removed from its casing. Im looking for a good, trustworthy, reasonably priced data recovery company who might be able to recover the HDDs contents for me. Anyone able to help? I live and work around London so preferably south east if possible.
Western Digital Elements 1tb external drive, one day it just couldn't be read, tried multiple PCs at home and at work, I wondered whether it might be that the hdd to casing connectors that were at fault so I took the casing apart. I have tried plugging the exposed hdd directly into my motherboard as if it was an internal drive. Still unfortunately nothing.
It does spin, no unusual clicking or such noises. Windows Explorer / Device Manager does not recognition it but Disk Management does acknowledge it exists (when plugged directly into mobo), however it wont initialise it due to 'Device I/O Error'.
Thanks!
Not quite sure were to ask this but id imagine most people here have needed such a company in the past.
One of my external HDDs died on me a while back, multiple PCs wont read it, nor can I get anything from it directly once removed from its casing. Im looking for a good, trustworthy, reasonably priced data recovery company who might be able to recover the HDDs contents for me. Anyone able to help? I live and work around London so preferably south east if possible.
Western Digital Elements 1tb external drive, one day it just couldn't be read, tried multiple PCs at home and at work, I wondered whether it might be that the hdd to casing connectors that were at fault so I took the casing apart. I have tried plugging the exposed hdd directly into my motherboard as if it was an internal drive. Still unfortunately nothing.
It does spin, no unusual clicking or such noises. Windows Explorer / Device Manager does not recognition it but Disk Management does acknowledge it exists (when plugged directly into mobo), however it wont initialise it due to 'Device I/O Error'.
Thanks!
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This will not be cheap no matter where you send it and I think you can be looking at up to an beyond 200 pounds for this (depending on the disk size).
Try this first (if your system can see the disk that is):
open up the cmd prompt
chkdsk ?: /f replace ? with the disk name
and last but not least before you send it in, give the disk a shake forward-backward-left and right (i am not joking with you here it has worked for me in the past)
good luck :thumbup:
I also have a broken hdd that has some valuable stuff on it but I see recovery companies as a last resort option.
I wanted to try clonezilla since it's free.
Anyone here had luck with some particular recovery tool?
Ill try that repete thanks.
Over on CGTalk someone suggested getting the same HDD again and swapping the circuit board on the drive... thats an idea I never thought of! Going to give that a try aswell.
The firmware must be identical on both drives for this to work !!!
of course they update then ;')
I had a massive internal drive failure on a WD 2Tb drive, bought a new one then proceeded to clone over the information. Took 2 days in total but i had a full clone of my drive. My pc is only 2 year's old (£1200 built) so i had close to 1.4 terabytes to move, the drives bad sectors caused the massive slowdowns hence 2 days ;')
I used the manufacturers software which was free, does your drive have similar recovery tools put out by the manufacturer?