Why is Your Hard Drive Not Spinning?
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Fixing a Smoking Hard Drive
Someday, the hard disk drive inside your computer may become a fire hazard. In this data recovery case, our client came to us for our hard disk repair services after their computer began to smoke, make crackling noises, and emit a…
VDI Recovery: Hard Drive PCB Replacement
The client in this case had been storing Oracle VDI files on their computer’s internal Western Digital hard drive. A VDI file, or “virtual disk image”, contains the contents of an entire “virtual” hard drive inside a single large file.…
Maxtor Data Recovery: Taking Control
The client in this data recovery case came to us after their Maxtor hard drive had bitten the dust. Their important photos and documents were stranded on the hard drive they’d pulled from their computer—which was now, to them at…
SQL Data Recovery: Hard Drive Boot Error
The client in this SQL data recovery case had been storing the database for their small business’s point-of-sale (POS) system on an 80 GB Seagate hard drive. One day, they lost access to their SQL database. Without the database, their…
Whining Western Digital Hard Drive
Cats and dogs whine. Children whine (and some adults, too). And, as it turns out, even hard drives can whine sometimes. While a whining child can be placated (and in rare instances, a whining cat), a hard drive that is…
Seagate ST1000DM003 Not Spinning After Lightning Strike
During the summer, we here at Gillware see an uptick in hard drives that have stopped spinning. These hard drives come into our data recovery lab with shorted control boards. Thunderstorms happen a lot more frequently during the summer, and…
Seagate Barracuda with Motor Failure
In this data recovery case, the client’s drive had multiple failure points. However, the primary reason this Seagate desktop hard drive was not detected was because the hard drive spindle motor had seized. The hard drive spindle motor is responsible for spinning…
Samsung Spinpoint HD204UI with Failed PCB
Data recovery involving a failed hard drive PCB used to be simple many years ago, when hard drives had simpler and less sophisticated designs. There was a time when any two hard drives made by the same manufacturer, with the…