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What happens when we repair a Hard Drive /
Hard Disc / Hard Disk?
Apex Technology provide a Professional Hard Disk
Drive Repair and Data Recovery Service. We have
the specialist hardware to fix your HDD HardDisk
/ HardDisc / HardDrive and recover the data from
the drive. Although the harddisk undergoes repair,
we never recommend using them again for data storage.
Usually by the time a HDD hard drive reaches us
it is the last chance to recover the data from
it. The hard disk undergoes repair purely to extract
the data from it. We repair all types of faulty
hard disks electronic, software, virus, firmware
problems. We repair Desktop & Laptop Notebook
Hard disk drives IDE ATA drives, Serial-ATA SATA
drive repairs.
When is it time to call a specialist Hard
Disk Drive Repair Centre?
There are various faults that you may observe
during the harddrive or harddisc operation. Discs
can go faulty, we have seen many cases including
smoke, firmware, not spinning/starting.
We recover data in the UK from the following Hard Disks
Western Digital, Fujitsu, IBM, Hitachi, Toshiba, Quantum, Seagate, Lacie, Conner,
TEAC, Samsung, Kalok, Iomega
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here to see a list of disks we recover data when they are not recognised in BIOS
Buffalo Tera-Station NAS XFS 0.6TB, 1.0TB, 2.0TB
Lacie Carte Orange USB Disk Drive Data Recovery
Lacie 80GB 160GB 200GB 250GB 320G 400GB 500GB Serial ATA SATA
Lacie Companion Hard Drive, Design by F.A. Porsche 250GB USB 2.0
Firewire USB2.0 Firewire Desktop Mini, Big Disk Extreme, Bigger Disk Extreme
Hard Disk Drive Motor Failure
The motor spins usually between 4200rpm upwards
to around 15000rpm in todays higher end desktop
drives. It is precisely controlled to enable synchronisation
for reading the data off the platters. It fails
in two main ways. The first is fairly obvious,
it simply doesn't spin or won't start. Perhaps
due to a power surge, spark or incorectly plugging
the power lead in. You can usually feel a slight
vibration or hear a humming sound on the drive
when it powers up. If you can't then it is likely
the motor isn't spinning. Erratic speed variations
of the motor may cause the drive to take an extended
period of time to come to the 'Ready' state. Prolonged
or repeatedly powering the drives could well cause
further damage. Disconnect the drive and give
us a call for recovery of the data from the drive.
Again, do not run 'software' recovery programs
in this state. They cause Disk I/O read / writes,
and this places increased stress on the heads,
which causes errors to be written to the disk,
further decreasing the chances of data recovery.
Hard Disk Drive not seen in BIOS
You may wonder what the BIOS is? BIOS stands
for Basic Input/Output System and in simple terms
it provides a set of instructions to your computer,
telling it how to start, and interface to the
first 'Boot' device. When it has reached the first
boot device, it can receive further instructions
from there, and eventually load your operating
system. During the start-up, the BIOS may have
failed to detect the Hard Drive, and therefore
is not shown. First check all connections and
try again.
If it still won't work, then the recognition failure
may be caused by a number of factors, eg corrupt
boot sector, however, at startup on your computer
you can tell whether the drive is being seen by
the system BIOS. Power up the computer, and look
for the on-screen instruction to tell you how
to enter the BIOS. Usually this is achieved by
pressing F1, F2 or DEL keys. Examine the menus
for options on viewing the BIOS IDE peripheral
setup and set your BIOS to automatically detect
IDE drives. On some BIOSes there is an option
to "automatically detect hard drives now".
If you run this option and the computer 'hangs'
or appears inactive for a a minute or more then
it is likely that your Hard Disk Drive had failed
to be recognised by the system BIOS.
Power Surge, Reversed Polarity, Power Supply plugged
in the wrong way around
This is a frequent occurence - particularly plugging
the power lead in the wrong way around. Despite
the shape of the molex connector, the cheaper
versions are often made of soft plastic and can
easily be plugged in incorrectly. Often this results
in the drive appearing totally dead with no noise
coming from the motor and an unpleasant burning
smell. Similar faults occur when a mains power
surge can damage the computer motherboard and
hard drive circuitry. Immediately unplug the computer
from the mains supply and withdraw the hard drive
to a safe place until recovery can take place.
Repair / Recover from following Operating
File Systems
Data recovery for FAT FAT32 and NTFS file systems.
Linux with EXT2fs, EXT3, XFS, reiserfs & jfs
filesystems on standalone & RAID volumes
Recover from partitions, even if the boot sector
or FAT has been erased or damaged
Recover files with the original time and date
stamp
Recover files on network drives
Recover from all Win 95, Win 98, Win ME, NT 4.0,
Windows™ XP and Windows™ 2000 systems.
HDD
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