Data Recovery Mistakes

April 12, 2018 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd, News

We often get asked to rescue situations where hard drives have been sent to a “local IT specialist” or taken to a “local computer shop”, who haven’t been able to recover the client’s data but know exactly what the problem with the hard drive is. In truth, nearly all of the time, the local shops […]

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Hard Disk SMART Errors

March 19, 2018 / Chris Seeley / Data Recovery Services

In this post we look at 2 common hard disk problems: How to get your data back when you get a “Disk Error” message Recovering data from a hard drive with a SMART error How to fix a disk error “Disk error” is a common message to see when a hard disk stops working. The […]

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Network Attached Storage Data Recovery

February 27, 2018 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd

There’s plenty of people and business using NAS hard drives as their main data storage systems these days. We recover data from all types of NAS device – you can read our specific NAS data recovery page here: https://www.dataclinic.co.uk/nas-data-recovery/. Price wise, it depends on how many hard drives you’ve got in your device, what the […]

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Unknown Disk – Not Initialised Hard Drive Problem – Solved

February 12, 2018 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd, Data Recovery Services, News

“I just moved in a new house and when I fired up my desktop PC I noticed that the system did not recognize my HDD SATA drive. Windows doesn’t recognize the disk at all. Disk Management shows the disk as: Not Initialized – Unknown Windows is not able to detect the disk space as well. […]

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Cookies – A Privacy Factsheet

January 29, 2018 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd

Each time you visit a web site, regardless of whether you are using a Mac or PC, a phone or a tablet, a snippet of computer code known as a ‘Cookie’ is placed on your device. However, far from it’s innocuous and slightly cuddly name, cookies can intrusively track what you do online… Here’s a […]

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Serious Security Flaw in some WD NAS Hard Drives

January 11, 2018 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd

A number of Western Digital NAS hard drives are vulnerable to a remote hacking attack due to a hardcoded backdoor in the device that can give a hacker full access to the files on the NAS. Which WD hard drives: Some of the My Cloud NAS range. What’s a hardcoded backdoor?: It’s a (until now) […]

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Data Recovery Services over Christmas 2017

December 21, 2017 / Chris Seeley / News

Thank you for visiting and supporting Data Clinic in 2017. We wish you a peaceful and happy Christmas. If you happen to get stuck without access to your files and data over the Christmas period, here’s our guide about what you can do and the actions to take to get your files and data back. […]

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File record segment xxx is unreadable / Read failure with status

November 29, 2017 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd

How do you recover data in situations like this? When you see error messages like these ones involving unreadable segments and read failures, it means you have a serious problem with your computer’s hard disk. The rest of your computer is ok, so you can stop worrying about it. Instead concentrate your efforts on the […]

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Safe mode and System32 boot problems

November 22, 2017 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd, Data Recovery General

In this post we examine various hard drive problems encountered when booting a Windows PC and offer advice on how to copy the data off to another hard drive. Here is the user’s enquiry: “PC is 2007 bought from new. It’s an Advent with a 250gb hard drive. Worked fine shut down last week, turned […]

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PCB Problems with phones and hard drives

November 10, 2017 / Chris Seeley / Data Recovery Services

To answer the question “Is it possible to recover data from a phone or a hard drive with a broken PCB?“, the answer is USUALLY YES. Hard drives don’t store their data on the PCB but there are certain chips whose information has to be transferred across during the data recovery processes. Similarly, mobile phone […]

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