Macbook Hard Drive Fails to Boot
Our client here in this Macbook data recovery case was in trouble. Their Macbook had served them well for years—but now it was toast. They would turn the Macbook on, and it would greet them with a gray screen. It…
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Hard Drive Failure Recovery
Hard disk drives are really incredible inventions when you think about how much data they cram into such a small space (although that alone doesn’t seem too impressive now that we have solid state drives). The fact that a bunch…
Recovering Data from a Hard Drive After a Power Surge
Hard drives, like any electronic devices, need electricity to function. But they can also suffer a lot of damage if they’re exposed to too much electricity. For your phone, your TV, your computer, etc. an electrical surge is a bit…
Samsung 850 EVO Data Recovery Case Study: In Short Supply
Unlike hard disk drives, which can make a lot of noise when they kick the bucket, solid state drives live and die in near-complete silence. This can make it hard for a layperson to have even the faintest clue what’s…
HDD Failure: Getting a Second Opinion
Hard disk drives, like everything else, eventually stop working. No matter how well you care for your computer’s internal hard drive or your external hard drive, sooner or later it will kick the bucket. In general, hard drives have a…
HDD PCB Repair: More Than Meets the Eye
The client in this data recovery case had been storing their company’s Peachtree financial database on an old Seagate Barracuda hard drive. Eventually, as all hard drives do, the old Seagate hard drive installed in the client’s computer gave up…
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…
Laptop Water Damage Data Recovery
Spilled Water on Laptop – What’s At Risk? A glass of water, juice, tea, or anything else can wreak havoc on your laptop computer’s keyboard. Spilling water on laptop computers can mean that water seeps through the keyboard and get…
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.…