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Below are some data recovery enquiries from people who want to get their data back. They sent their hard drives and mobile phones into Datlabs for data recovery.

Data recovery in North London

I’m based in North London and I’ve just had a 4tb external hard drive fail after it suffered a fall. When would I be able to drop in the drive for repair to a data recovery specialist in London?

Seagate SSHD Recover Files

I have a Lenovo laptop with Seagate SSHD 500GB, the laptop is failing to boot. How much will it cost to recover all data? please email rather than phoning due to work. There are many files and folders on the SSHD that i’d like to recover.

I also have a Seagate external hard drive that is no longer mounting and is causing crashes when it’s plugged in. Really need the data to be recovered from it if possible!
Seagate Expansion Portable Drive. I live Chester and work in London.

Data recovery from HGST hard drives

HDD: z7k500-500 HGST disk makes a clicking noise and sounds like th e-reader heads have misaligned. The drive isn’t recognised by the laptop. I have tried taking the hdd out of the laptop and attaching as a secondary disk in a different system and it isn’t detected by the Disk manager.

External 3TB drive failed – need to recover data rapidly.

Spilled water on my laptop and want to recover the data. Already have bought a caddy. Need help on how to do it

HGST data recovery

I had my laptop and hard drive stolen. My laptop was recovered by Datlabs data recover but the data on my external hard drive was erased I wanted to know if there is ay possibility of recovering data from it.

My laptop is not starting Win10. I need to recover the data on its SSD drive and get Win10 reinstalled. Can you help me please?

Dell laptop knocked off sofa. Has been removed by team know how at pc world now looking at options of data recovery.

When I connect to my `MacBook the hard drive does not do anything – no light comes on – and the Mac does not connect to it.

Recover Seagate files from hard drive

An old IDE drive Seagate Barracuda 160 Gb ST3160021A. I have tried with a USB -> IDE adapter, the drive shows up on Windows and then disappears again. Does make noises suggesting it is reading/spinning. This drive belongs to a friend, she is looking to get her photos only from it.

Turned laptop on one morning and it didn’t boot.
Our IT department said it’s corrupted, nothing can be saved. Do you know if there’s a way round this? I’ve heard Datlabsdatarecovery are an excellent company for retrieving data from hard drives and mobile phones.

Disk is not seen on laptop or on usb SATA cable. the disk can be heard spinning and seeking for about 3-4 seconds, then just spins.

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January 28th, 2020 at 1:13 pm

A Data Recovery Adventure in Scotland – Part 1

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Exposed Hard Disk DriveThis New Year I found myself in Edinburgh, and a very fair city it is too. It had been 12 months since my extended family had been gathered together in one place – it’s something we do each New Year, so packed my case and travelled up north of the border.

Accompanying me on the trip was my trusty 2TB external hard drive. This thing is totally invaluable and stores all my work and music, plus the movies and photos that I was looking forward to showing everyone over the Xmas holiday. I arrived safely on a wet New Years Eve morning and in my haste to get inside and out of the rain managed to accidentally throw my external hard drive from the car. I watched in horror as it flew across the pavement and landed in my parent’s garden. Oh No! I thought, but at least it had landed on the soft grass rather than a hard pavement. I retrieved the hard drive and went inside hoping it would still work.

I plugged the drive into my parent’s Windows computer and all was looking good, I heard the beep-beep noise that you get when you attach a USB device, so far so good. I then got an error message telling me the hard drive could no longer be read and asking me whether I wanted to format the drive. I said Yes. Several minutes later I got another message saying the process had failed. Uh-oh… what do I do now I thought…

My father told me a friend of theirs had recently had a hard disk problem too. He said they had to use a data recovery company to get the data off the hard drive but couldn’t remember the name of the company. A phone call later he told me the data recovery company was called Datlabs. But they weren’t in Edinburgh they were in Glasgow. Could we not use a company in Edinburgh I asked? He told me that his friend had done exactly the same thing but the the company in Edinburgh were not very good and he got the impression that they didn’t know what they were doing.

I agreed we should then follow my father’s friend’s recommendation and drive across to Glasgow to see the Datlabs data recovery people. OMG, I’m very glad we did. They were able to look at the hard drive and tell me one of the heads was about to fail. This apparently was bad, they said there was probably only a limited amount of time before the drive failed completely and recommended they get the data from it ASAP…. To Be Continued

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January 3rd, 2014 at 1:58 pm

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.