Posts Tagged ‘fault’

Recovering files from a Mac

Friday, December 15th, 2017

Using Disk Utility is a good way of recovering your files from a dodgy Mac hard drive. As basic types of data recovery go, Disk Utility is OK, but anything more complex and you’ll need a data recovery company. These posts are courtesy of such a company, thank you Recover Deleted Data.

Disk Utility

Old WD Mybook not working
I have an old 500GB WD Mybook, one that still has to connect to an external power supply and is connected to USB via Firewire. The hard drive is never moved and has been working as expected in the last few years. Recently, after not being used for about a year, it powers on but the connection via laptop(s) does not pick up the external drive. I purchased another Firewire cable but no luck here. There is no sound coming out from the drive which is unexpected. I believe it is a simple case of the connection between the SATA drive being loose/broken and I just need this drive connected to another external USB drive, and the data transferred. There will be no need to fix the WD 500GB drive and happy for you to keep and re-sell it if you like. The hard drive will not turn on any more. The model is a Western Digital MyBook (Essential Edition 1TB USB 2.0) External Hard Drive.

Old Iomega drive makes clicking sound
I’ve had Iomega 500gb external hard drive for about 4 years and just recently when I connected it back on all I hear is some clicking sound. I have tried doing the basic by opening and resetting the reader back in its position however to me it sounds more like the drive to me. I need to recover the deleted photos and the videos of my kids which is more precious to me and my partner.

The hard drive beeps when first powered on. The driver will not be recognised by the computer. The make of the external drive is WD and the files are deleted.

Received file disk error upon restart after downloading OS X High Sierra on MacBook Pro 2012 model. Apple store suggested a damaged disk and advised a reformat.

Note: With all the above examples, you may first like to attempt running Disk Utility before contacting a data recovery service to recover your data.

Data Recovery Q&A

Sunday, May 28th, 2017

My friend has seagate external hard drive and had mac format, but i tried using on windows 10 pc, it didn’t work so tried back on my friend’s mac, now it says not readable, can you please provide any suggestion why it could be that and is it recoverable?

HDD not readable messageI’m told by my local computer repair place that the controller of my seagate external 2TB drive has failed. If this is the case, could you give a rough guide as to the price for recovery.

Internal Seagate Barracuda 500Gb hard drive just died. it is making clicking noise while my computer is starting up and doesn’t get detected by W7. is any chance to recover the data from it? at least the photos

Dropped WD My Passport Ultra (not hard or far from the floor) and now no computer will read it. It lights up and is recognised in the driver yet I cannot open it. Is this something you could repair or get back my information from?

My computer suffered some trauma and my hard drive is inaccessible. I have tried as much as I can DIY to get access to the files but I can’t. Can you examine the hard drive such that you can see how much you can recover of the hard drive before actually going ahead and retrieving the documents? Secondly, how much do you charge for your retrieval service?

No power at all. Need to recover the data to another HD (provided, but Windows 10 operating system).
Details: Apple imac mid-2011 21.5″ Hard-Drive.
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB.
Serial No: S2A4G1P6 ST3500418AS
P/N: 9SL142-240 Firmware: AP73
Date Code: 12333 Site Code: SU
DOM: 02/2012 Made in China
Printed Circuit Board details: foxcom
Rev 100535704 Rev C
winbond W9412G6JH -5 1143W
61325W000 8265F
LSI- B5502D0 Seagate
Data connector – 100504880

24hourcomputerrepairs comment: Data recovery is rarely simple. If the hard drive is still working and you instead have a problem with your data then software fixes can sometimes help. But if you have a problem with your actual hard drive, no software is going to help. You will need hardware assistance so Google a data recovery expert.