Laptop Data Recovery

Here the situation is. A laptop comes to us with a dead hard drive. Unfortunately, the user needs some files from the dead drive. After much research on the Internet and a few data recovery quotes we decide to try that restore information itself.

Fortunately, the drive will spin up for us.I say fortunately, because the usual problem is that bad ging.Das does not mean the Board on the bottom of the drive that something else is not the problem, but replace the Board is the easiest thing to the try.

The first thing needed a different hard disk. This sounds simple, but it is not. Need an identical hard disk and identical is the same model number the part number, the firmware, the everything. In our case we had a Hitachi Travelstar hard drive, which had the same three numbers. Important was the model number, part number and MLC number. I think the MLC number has to me something to do with the firmware, but did not quote. I was referred to a company called CueTech after speaking with Hitachi. They specialize the search for "hard to find" or outdated computer parts. Wanted to charge $ 200 to $ 400 for the drive that I thought was appropriate for the work required to find.Instead of using you, I decided to look at my own and not yet found after two days, had a different drive for sale that have my needs erfüllt.Wir then began in the House for similar laptops and found that had an identical drive. Now we were in business.

Well, we had our ride we had to protect because the user wanted your machine back in order. So before we made any kind of operation we a ghost image of your hard drive. After waiting, the 20 minutes or so to stop backup we started the surgery. First we have removed the hard disk from the working system and put it up on a static pad with the Board. We a D 5 Torx drive then used to remove the screws of the Board on the hard disk. Your drive may be a different size or style of the screwdriver must. Then we repeated the process on the bad drive.We focus on the dead hard drive the Board from the good drive and placed it back booted in the Laptop.Es!Once we setup new it we worked to make the system a fast drive image.After waiting another 20 minutes, we had restored a disk image from the bad hard drive and our data.

To complete the process, which we had to put the Board back to the original good hard disk and verify returns that it properly run this completed wurde.sobald and the laptop to its owner, we have a new hard drive in the system that had the original problem installiert.Der last step was the drive image to the new disk restore, make sure it worked, and give the laptop back to the owner.

Gary Higbee
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