Forensic Hard Drives Repair
For Police & Law Enforcement
Data Clinic Ltd specialise in forensic hard drive data recovery and repair from unresponsive, damaged, or broken HDDs. While most Digital Forensics teams can perform software-based imaging or data recovery, physically damaged drives require advanced skills. If the hard drive is degraded, corrupted, or unresponsive, standard tools often fail to recover critical evidence, risking loss of valuable data for investigations.
Since 2002, Data Clinic has been the trusted partner for forensic HDD data recovery, offering extensive expertise, advanced equipment, and techniques not available in the public domain. We support police forces, government departments, regulatory agencies, and legal professionals who require reliable forensic disk recovery services for evidential data retrieval.
Supporting Digital Forensic Investigators
At Data Clinic, we not only provide the highest level of forensic data recovery but also ensure seamless support to Digital Forensic Investigators through:
- A single point of contact for all forensic hard drive recovery cases
- Emergency forensic data recovery services with 24/7 availability for critical investigations
- Maintaining exhibit continuity and strict evidence chain-of-custody
- Streamlined forensic reports with clear findings
- Comprehensive contemporaneous notes and photographic documentation
- Regular progress updates throughout the recovery process
- Tailored processes to suit client-specific requirements
- Continuous research & development to retrieve data from new technologies
- Secure, security-cleared courier services for device transportation
- CPD presentations to enhance investigator understanding of hard drive forensic data recovery capabilities
Hard Drive Repair, Imaging and Cloning
Most cases involve media degradation, where obtaining a clean, complete image is vital for forensic analysis. Our advanced imaging equipment and custom techniques enable us to achieve the best possible clone, even from drives with severe sector damage or degraded tracks. Our capabilities include:
- Firmware manipulation and head replacement
- Custom imaging configurations, head mapping, and temperature-controlled reads
- Recovering unreadable or corrupted sectors effectively
Interface Conversion and Bypass
Modern hard drives with USB-PCB integration complicate data recovery and forensic imaging. Our expertise in interface conversion allows us to tap directly into SATA data channels, enabling service area manipulation, firmware repairs, and efficient cloning while bypassing USB interface limitations.
Advanced Firmware Reprogramming
Hard drives contain hundreds of critical firmware modules (SMART, P & G-Lists, translators, control areas). Corruption or damage here prevents data access. Our technicians diagnose, repair, and reprogram firmware modules to restore access for forensic hard drive data recovery. Services include:
- ATA password unlocking
- WD SED lock removal and slow response fixes
- Seagate Rosewood media cache repairs
- Translator rebuilds and ROM lock bypass
- Full read/write capabilities across models
Precision Cleaning & Head Stack Assembly Repairs
Sometimes clicking noises arise from particle contamination rather than head failure. Using ultra-high magnification stereo microscopes and medical-grade acetone cleaning, we restore head functionality.
When heads are defective, our engineers replace head stack assemblies with precise compatible parts, manipulating ROM and service modules to complete complex recoveries successfully.
Encryption Bypass
Many Western Digital external drives and NAS solutions are hardware encrypted. Our imaging tools decrypt these sectors seamlessly to produce accessible forensic images for analysis.
Why Choose Data Clinic?
With decades of experience in forensic HDD data recovery, we deliver reliable, fast, and secure services essential for police and legal investigations. Contact us today to discuss your forensic data recovery needs and ensure no evidence is ever lost.
