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Certified Repaired Hard Drive

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This was the second drive in my desktop computer, where I kept my Windows profile. All my data was either in the Windows profile or outside of it, but on this drive. Windows was installed on another drive.

Certified Repaired HDD
One day (a few years ago) this drive started making (clicking) noises, and Windows started giving errors. It still worked, and I copied most of the data to another drive. However for some directories and files it gave errors. When Windows gave errors, the drive would disappear so I had to reboot, then it would be recognized again until I accessed certain data. To eliminate the time consuming process of rebooting I mounted it into an external USB hard drive bay, and I was able to copy most of the (still accessible) data that way.
That is the last known state of the drive. It still probably works but I didn’t want to keep trying to avoid possible degradation.
The label on the HDD states ‘Certified Repaired HDD‘ – by Seagate.

Hard drive freezes
Though my hardrive appears when connected to my laptop, it freezes when trying to open it/access any files and multiple attempts at using disk utility has failed to fix the issue. I believe the problem is multiple bad sectors as the hardrive continually causes programs on my laptop to freeze and thus I have to remove the drive without ejecting, likely causing further bad sectors. The drive came as a certified repaired drive from Seagate, but I have the opinion that it’s not a very good hard drive. I sometimes hear a beep noise too coming from the drive. I’ve tried downloading software to extract the files from the drive but it is so corrupted that it just causes my laptop to freeze. I was wondering if there was any way to retrieve my data and if this is solvable.

I have a seagate go flex drive which we cant access even though we have the passwords etc, it seems the drive has failed. it has our family photos on it, approx 1.7 gb of data [not 100% of how much is on there]. would you be able to retrieve the data? also what would be the costs?

Seagate Backup Plus external driver dropped. Makes beeping sound when trying to power up and not recognised by computer. Windows USB sound made but no drive available. Power light on HDD doesn’t come on either. Email only please, at work so can’t answer phone.

Please avoid ‘Certified Repaired’ hard drives, they are not up to the standard of brand new hard drives.

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January 26th, 2021 at 3:46 pm

Help with Samsung A50 Phone and WD HDD on Disk Manager

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Samsung A50 phoneIn this post we discuss saving photos from a broken Samsung A50 phone and a Western Digital Elements hard drive that is not showing up on Disk Manager.

Need help saving photos on a Samsung A50 phone
Before I broke the display on my Samsung A50 phone, I had a fingerprint and a template, but after changing the display, only the template I don’t remember remained. I asked at Samsung services but they said that factory settings are needed. Is there any chance you can help me remove the template or at least save my photos?

WD Element not showing on disk manager
This drive came from a WD Element external drive which I took out to use internally (this was a while ago). During a power surge, related to a faulty USB hub, this particular hard drive decided to not show up on disk manager. I then decided to disconnect it and reconnect it externally via a SATA-to-USB interface. Windows is not seeing any data on these partition, even though the drive was almost full, and prompts me to format (which I didn’t). The drive seems to be healthy and functional. There is a lot of important data on this hard drive and I need the folder structure to be preserved for the data to be useful.

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December 9th, 2020 at 12:44 pm

Memory Card data recovery

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An event has been captured on a digital camera, the images saved straight onto a 32gb sd memory card.
Approximately 300 Images were copied over to a mac book laptop after the event. or so we thought.
In actual fact, in the destination folder on the laptop, only 250 of them successfully copied, as for the rest, they are ‘greyed-out’, when they are clicked to open, a error message states, ‘this file can not be opened as it is in use by another program’.
-There is no other program opened with the images in use.
-The original 32GB SD memory has been formatted since. then another event was shot and saved onto this same memory.
Please let me know if you can help, if your service comes with a no data, no fee policy and what your price is for a job of this nature.

Card is an XQD card (possibly Sony), which has been accidentally formatted. Nothing written to it since, they ran some Sony device checking app over the card which could ‘see’ some files but could not access or recover them (customer assures me nothing overwritten). She will need to get authorisation but thinks they might go for Priority and get this overnighted to us themselves. They would also provide RM and an adaptor/reader (I don’t think we have seen this format before and none of our readers seem to mention it )

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September 9th, 2020 at 3:15 pm

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Broken Hard Drives Still Contain Recoverable Data !

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When you store important information on a hard disk drive, you take the chance of losing that information because hard disk drives can break for a variety of different reasons. If you’re not computer literate, losing data on a hard drive can be difficult because you don’t know what to do to recover your data. Fortunately, there are companies that can help you get that data back. These are known as data recovery companies and they can retrieve data from nearly any type of hard drive in any type of condition. So when you find yourself in a situation where you have lost valuable information you should not assume that this data can not be retrieved.

Hard drive with cover removed.There are some companies that specialise in repairing damaged hard drives. In the process of retrieving your data, theses data recovery companies can also repair your hard disk. Types of the problems data recovery companies can repair include broken boards, mechanical hard drive faults such as the ‘click of death’ and beeping hard drives. A recommended company in the UK are RAID and Server Data Recovery – you would use a hard drive recovery company when your local IT provider can no longer help you.

Sometimes when there is no damage to the hard disk, software programs can be used to help you retrieve your data by yourself. There are usually trial versions available on the internet that will tell you what they can and can’t recover first. If you decide you want to recover the data they find you’ll have to buy the program which usually costs several pounds. But at least it will get your data back for you. A word of caution though, what may at first appear to be a simple hard drive problem may be something far more serious and trying to recover the data yourself may cause many more problems. So if in doubt, you should always seek professional help as there could be problems inside your disk that prevent it from working properly.

Remember that just because your hard disk breaks or the information on it seems to have disappeared, this doesn’t mean that the data is lost forever. Skilled data retrieval companies that can find and rescue lost data on a damaged hard drive. In the process of restoring the data, the hard drive problems that caused the data to go missing in the first place will be fixed. This is helpful because it insures that it won’t happen again.