Archive for February, 2018

Recover data from Western Digital hard drives

Friday, February 23rd, 2018

WD logoIn the previous post to this, I wrote a lot about how hard drives become mechanically damaged and what to do to recover the data from them when they break. In this post I give some further examples of data recovery from Western Digital hard drives.

I have a WD external hard drive that when plugged in it makes a noise “tick” every second as if something was hitting something else. It is not recognised by the pc…

I have a 2 week old WD Mycloud Home Nas Drive which has stopped working. I took it back to curry’s who said that the clicking sound when trying to boot means the drive cannot read the data. The PC does not recognise the drive either.

I used a WD external hard drive to set up a windows 10 boot drive. Windows partitioned the drive and I can now only see it as a 4GB flash drive. In device manager I can see the rest of the drive is not formatted. The data is still there, I just cant get to it without formatting which will erase it. The drive holds about 1TB of data. Can you format or recover the data?

I have two WD elements external hard drives (1 x 1tb 1 x 2tb). one was working fine until i dropped it the other day it reads but it is very slow and the other one says F: Drive Is Not Accessible. The Parameter Is Incorrect or something similar both contain music, videos and pictures which is important that i get back.

After my wife has dropped my harddrive during a decoration weekend it has stopped responding.
the device still registers connected and shows all folders saved but I can not access these folders
also makes like a skidding noise periodically.
The device name is WD Elements
i need to try and recover the files on here as i have alot of buisness data
and family photos

WB Mybook 2Tb HD broken; I’ve taken it out of its casing and can’t recover any data from it. It contains laptop backups and other data I’d like to recover. How much would it cost to get it recovered onto a USB HD?

WD passport ultra. I sent it to a data recovery service, but have been told it has a mechanical fault that means the data cannot be recovered- the head stack?
They looked into mechanical repairs for me but there was chance it could not be fixed and it would cost a lot of money ([probably for nothing).
I would be grateful if you could offer your opinion/advice.

In my opinion, if you have a broken WD hard drive and you want to recover the data, I would only recommend you try and do this yourself if the data on the hard drive is of no value to you. The reason for this is you’ll probably make a mess of it. I’ve learnt that if you have files on a Western Digital hard drive that are of value to you then you should ask a good data recovery company to retrieve your data for you. Do not try and recover the data on your own.

Examples of mechanically damaged hard drives

Saturday, February 10th, 2018

There are many faults that can befall a hard drive. One of the most common is a mechanical failure. These are most often caused by that hard drive falling and landing on something firm like a floor. This impact damages the heads of the hard drive and if the files and folders on the hard drive are valuable then you’ll have to consult a data recovery company (like Data Recovery Tips), or a country wide hard drive recovery specialist like Data Clinic Ltd to get them off. Why? Because a mechanical fault damages components inside the hard drive that need to be replaced in order to access the data again.

A damaged hard drive

  • I have a Verbatim external hard drive which stopped working today whilst I was in the process of organising some of the folders on it. When I connect it to my laptop, it beeps for a few seconds (this then stops), but it does not register with the laptop. I have tried a new USB lead and have tried to connect it to a desktop but the issue remains the same. I have a great deal of personal photos of my child, and documents which I need for my job as a teacher.
  • Seagate Expansion Portable Drive SRD0NF1 fell off table and hung down without hitting the floor. Since this the hard drive will no longer connect. When inserting USB into Macbook it just produces a consistent beeping sound, with around 1 second in between each beep. At first the blue light was on constantly and not flashing, but then after a while this no longer appears at all and just has the beeping sound.
  • I have a Transcend 1TB Hard Drive (TS1TSJ25D2). When I try to connect the hard drive to my laptop, the blue light on the hard drive comes on but my PC doesn’t recognise the hard drive. The hard drive also make a strange sound, like the drive spinning inside. Please can you advise on possible reasons for this and recommended course of action to access the data on my hard drive.
  • My hard drive stopped working. When connected to the laptop there’s a sound like a bip coming from it but it is not recognised by the computer. Needed to recover some of the files on it.

To summarise, the 4 examples are all mechanically damaged hard drives that will need the attentions of a hard drive data recovery specialist to retrieve the files. Look through some other posts on this site to find some more recommendations.