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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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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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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Unresponsive phones – need data

October 24, 2017 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd, Data Recovery General

Here’s just some of the data recovery enquiries we’ve received from phone users this month. As you can see – we get questions regarding many different types of problem from all types of phone. We can recover phone data in most situations, our main phone recovery page is here – https://www.dataclinic.co.uk/data-recovery-from-mobile-devices-phones-tablets-etc/. Successful recovery of files […]

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Hard Drive Recovery – Q&A October 2017

October 9, 2017 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd, News

Here’s a few interesting data recovery enquiries we’ve received over the last weeks. Orphaned files and bad sectors I’m near Harrogate in Yorkshire in a place called Knaresorough and I have a problem with a Toshiba 855 satellite laptop. It has been playing up for a few weeks when on the Internet, where I use […]

Need to recover the data from a hard drive or mobile phone?

September 22, 2017 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd, Data Recovery General, Data Recovery Services

Since 2002, Data Clinic have provided expert data recovery services – retrieving the files and folders from hard drives and phones where the data is no longer accessible by normal means. We provide a ‘no recovery no fee’ which means we only charge if we are successful in getting your files back. In addition to […]

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