Archive for June, 2017

Buffalo Hard Drive Fault

Wednesday, June 21st, 2017

This month I’ve had a spate of enquiries about faulty Buffalo hard drives. IMO any hard drive that produces ticking or buzzing sounds should be sent to a data recovery company. Don’t try and fix it yourself !

My hard drive produces a clicking/ticking noise when turned on. This happens no matter how many times I reset it. It’s a Buffalo branded external hard drive.

hard drive exposedMy daughter is taking A-Level exams and has kept her work on a USB stick. She has plugged it into her Mac tonight and the system is saying that there is an error. (She did not back her work up! aggghh).
We have tried various fixes but none seem to work.
The work that is on the USB needs to handed in by Tuesday afternoon at the latest.
I know it is a big ask but is it possible to recover the work at such short notice? If so, I would be able to drop the USB of at Geldard Road, Leeds when you open at 8am for possible recovery?

My external Buffalo harddrive will no longer show up on my computer but I have hundreds of photos on there that I would really like to retrieve if possible. Please can I send it to you to see if anything can be done?

My hard drive no longer mounts on both Mac and Window platforms. The cable is relatively new and I tried the different USB ports available to me. It did mount temporarily a few days ago on my windows 10 tablet but its connection sporadically cut out by itself. Now it no longer mounts. It is still receiving power once connected as I can hear and feel the drive whirring. It’s a portable Buffalo type.

Hard drive was accidentally formatted and as a result all files are no longer accessible. I tried running a recovery and was able to see the files but unable to recover them as I wasn’t confident of what I was doing and didn’t want to lose the files.

Samsung S4 Mini is completely unresponsive, although when connected to a computer the computer does recognise the phone as an “unkown device” with an error message being displayed saying (“one of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned, and windows does not recognise it”). I would like to make an enquiry to recover my personal data / photo’s directly from the phones memory if this is possible?

Ireland Data Recovery

Thursday, June 8th, 2017

Data recovery services in Ireland are not widespread. UK companies like Data Clinic will provide a decent service, although you’ll have to send your equipment to the UK mainland to have the information retrieved.

A map of Northern and Southern Ireland

I am currently living in Ireland. I would like to ask you some questions for fixing my iPhone 5 I can’t turn it back on. There are a lot of precious photos and movies of my family on the phone, and I hadn’t backed them up yet. I really want to recover the data but I don’t know if it’s possible. Would you be so kind as to assist me with my problem? I’ve included the technical detail regarding my iPhone.
Status of the trouble
2.1. Basic information
Unit type: iPhone 5 (32GB) *Japanese model
iOS version: iOS 6.1.4 or 7 (not sure)
Storage space: 1.0-1.2 GB (probably)
– Pictures: around 22 GB
Mobile phone carrier: Softbank (Japanese company)
The sequence of events
May 2016; The power can’t turn on. (The iPhone did not show anything.)
June 2016; The Apple showed only apple logo, but did not start. I tried to update iOS (Firmware and OS) but I failed to update it. It maybe because of insufficient storage. Japanese data recovering company suggested that there are no hardware defects. The Apple logo sometimes on, sometimes off. I tried to update several types of iOS (iOS 9.3.2-5 and iOS10) again, but I failed to update it.
February 2017; The iPhone did not show the Apple logo.
Questions
1) Is it possible to repair the iPhone5 and recover the data under these circumstances?
2) If yes, what kind of approaches will you use to do it, and how much does it cost to recover the iPhone?
3) In case you try to fix the iPhone, are there any risks where in to the trouble could worsen such as data destruction?
4) If you cannot fix the iPhone, do you know any companies which may be able to repair it?
Special concern
As this data is very important for my family, I really want to avoid negative impact, such as losing the data. If you have any further questions regarding my email, please don’t hesitate to ask me.

Not detecting the external drive – making a click sound continously – anywhere in Northern Ireland (eg Belfast) that can help? I am unable to get to Dublin.

I have an external hard drive a Samsung 3m portable 1TB. About two months ago it failed and i sent it away for a data recovery. I know the drive was almost full but the previous data recovery company was only able to recover about 200GB of data. I was given the drive back but my PC still don’t recognise it. After reading your reviews i am wondering if you can recover more. It does have adult material (pics and videos) on the hard drive is something i like to disclose just in case its something you don’t recover. The company said it may had a power surge.

I have an iPhone where the camera roll has been wiped (approx 600) photos deleted and then the deleted photos section also cleared.
Are you able to recover the photos from my holiday in Ireland?

My Samsung Galaxy Ace 3 has stopped working. I’ve tried various things to get access to the data (mainly the photographs) on the phone, including taking it to the Samsung shop in Dublin. They diagnosed it as a hardware fault. I’m due a new phone so I didn’t follow-up with a repair from them as this would have involved losing the data. I’m not worried about what happens to this phone or getting it repaired, just more about the options for getting the data from it. Is this something you could help with? What would the likely cost of this be?