Laptop and notebook computers make up an ever
increasing percentage of the computer population. Regardless
of the manufacturer of the laptop or notebook, its hard
disk will nearly always be either an IBM Travelstar, Hitachi
DK23, Fujitsu or Toshiba hard drive.
All laptop hard disks are prone to the same
problems as their desktop counterparts, but because of their
smaller size and greater density they are uniquely prone
to a few others also. Typical data loss situations that
arise with laptops are -
- Impact damage eg. the laptop is dropped or sat on
- Inaccessible drives and partitions
- Virus attack
- Hard disk component failure
- Hard disk crashes
- Fire, water, coffee and other liquid damage
- Media surface contamination and damage
- Accidental reformatting of partitions
- Accidental deletion of data
- Inaccessibility
of data due to drive being protected by ATA password
The Data Clinic has extensive knowledge of all
laptop drives and are able to recover data from them in almost
all situations, regardless of whether the failures are logical,
electrical or mechanical. By the very fact that laptop drives
are used in mobile devices, they also suffer from bad
sectors
IBM Travelstar and Hitachi Travelstar
disks: Laptop computers that contain the IBM
Travelstar or Hitachi Travelstar hard disk have some common
failure symptoms
Hitachi DK23 series hard disks:
Read our page about drive
failures on the Hitachi DK23 family of hard drives,
PLUS read about problems
and symptoms on the Hitachi DK23BA
family of drives. Also see the General
IBM / Hitachi Travelstar drive failure
link (above).
Fujitsu laptop hard disks:
Read our page specific to failures
on the Fujitsu MHR, MHS, MHT, MHU, MHV etc. series of hard
disk drive
Toshiba laptop hard disks:
Failure
symptoms and data recovery from Toshiba laptop hard disks,
Advanced
Data Recovery on Toshiba laptop hard drives
Seagate laptop hard disks: Data
recovery from Seagate Momentus hard disks
Samsung laptop hard disks: Data
recovery and associated failure symptoms on Samsung hard disk
drives
Western Digital hard disks: Failure
symptoms and data recovery from Western Digital Scorpio laptop
hard disks
>> Data
Clinic's ADR (Advanced Data Recovery) service for laptop disks
now allows us to recover data from laptop hard drives that
was once unrecoverable
>>
Take a look at what's actually going on inside a knocking
hard disk drive with a head failure
by
viewing our online movie
