If your Western Digital My Passport hard drive is clicking, you’ve come to the right place to help. Read on to find out what makes your hard disk drive click, how much danger the files on your hard drive might…
When a hard drive comes to our data recovery lab here at Gillware after spending some time in another data recovery company’s lab, it’s usually for one of two reasons. Commonly, the other data recovery company had charged the drive’s owner an…
When a hard drive starts making unusual clicking noises, it is because the drive’s magnetic read/write heads have run into a problem while attempting to read data from its platters. Although this can happen for a few reasons, in many data…
Updated 7/8/2015 One important question clients ask when considering data recovery is: “How likely will a successful data recovery be?” For us, the answer depends mostly on whether or not the data still exists. That seems obvious in hindsight. But…
Recovering the data stored on a failed hard disk drive (HDD) has always been hard…really hard. The nano-scale tolerances and cutting-edge technology that make the ultra-high capacity drives being sold today possible are not making the recovery task any easier.…
A read/write head is the business end of a hard drive. It’s the hitch of a trailer, the edge of a knife, the nib of a pen, the glove of an outfielder. It’s the interface of separate parts. It’s where…
