At Data Clinic we have quite a few enquiries from professional photographers. These days photographic images are huge and take up a large amount of hard disk space. So most serious photographers will store their images on a backup device such an one or more external hard drives. Unfortunately these hard drives get knocked and [...]
Read MoreYou know how it is… Everything’s digital these days… Your computer is your own personal information store… You download music onto it, you download films onto it, you download photos from your camera onto it… Then you notice that as time goes on your machine starts running slower and slower… Sure it’s getting old but [...]
Read MoreWe’ve all heard the term “HEADCRASH” and know it means something bad has happened to our data and hard drive, but what exactly is a headcrash ? and what does it mean ?? Ok, see the photo above? That’s what a hard disk looks like if you take the lid off, except it shouldn’t [...]
Read MoreSince 2002, Data Clinic Ltd, the UK’s leading data recovery company has successfully recovered data from faulty and broken hard disk drives for thousands of companies, organisations and people across the United Kingdom. We are delighted to announce that DataClinic Ltd and Seagate Data Recovery Services have formed a unique data recovery partnership in the [...]
Read MoreIf you think of a few places across the globe that are remote and difficult to get to, Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia will probably be on your list. Originally founded in 1693 as a Buddhist centre it is a destination point on the Trans Siberia railway and for 6 months of the year [...]
Read More“They Did What ??!!” is an irregular feature documenting some of the funny, strange and sometimes ludicrous things people have tried in order to get data back from faulty hard disks… Episode 1 – The PC Repair Man… Several years ago we had a call from a PC repair man. He’d been to visit a [...]
Read MoreData Clinic’s Advanced Data Recovery Service goes from Strength to Strength We’ve just completed the successful recovery a badly damaged 750GB Seagate hard drive that came to us all the way from Australia. The hard drive had previously been sent to other data recovery companies who were unsuccessful in recovering the data. Faults and Problems [...]
Read MoreIt’s been a good month so far for DataClinic’s Advanced Data Recovery (ADR) service. We’ve currently seen 4 hard drives whose data had been declared unrecoverable by other data recovery companies. Good job these 4 customers hunted around and decided to send their drives to us for a second opinion because we’ve been able to [...]
Read More(see, the jokes have started already and the article hasn’t even begun yet!) The announcement late last year that the HGST (Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) division of Western Digital were planning to launch a range of helium filled 3.5” hard drives aimed at the high level server and data centre market, may have taken some [...]
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