Recovering data from hard drive and phone with broken PCB

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 data is held on chips that are attached to the phone’s motherboard (PCB). Data extraction is often more difficult because of the way that mobile phone PCBs break and the damage this does. Readers can find out more about our hard drive recovery services here and our mobile phone recovery services here.

Below are two examples of data recovery questions regarding damaged PCB’s, one from the owner of a Samsung S7 Galaxy phone and the other regarding a 4TB Western Digital hard drive.

Data Recovery from a mobile phone with a broken PCB

“I would like to know if you can help recover my data, specifically my photos and videos from my Samsung Galaxy s7. I have been told the motherboard is gone, but wanted to know if there is a way of recovering the data before i sell the device.”

Data Recovery from a hard drive with a faulty PCB

“I have a 4tb internal hard drive that suddendly stop working. I was pretty sure was a problem with the pcb, so i swapped the pcb but now the hard drive is not recognised by my system.
Here the specs of my hard drive
Western Digital WD4003FZEX – 00Z4SA0
WWN:50014EE20872ADB5
DATE : 24 OCT 2013
DCM: EARCHVJMBB
DCX: 5P06808R6
R/N: 771822
The hard drive should be format in HFS as i use the drive in macos x.
There is anything that i can do to recover the data in the hard drive? I’m pretty sure they swapped the wrong pcb. How much it could cost to retrieve the data?”

If you have a broken hard drive or mobile phone that you’d like the data recovering from give us a call on 0871 977 2525 or fill out the form to the right and we’ll call you back.

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Jacob Greenwood

14:38 30 Mar 18

5* customer service! Recovered my father's book from an old drive, also retrieved some long forgotten about photos. Simply cant put a price on something like that.

Jarek Roover

12:21 30 Jul 18

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Tony Cowgill

15:56 10 Apr 13

We've used Data Clinic twice now - once for my son's laptop which held all his University work and suddenly seemed to just die, that was recovered with ease. And then secondly in connection with work when our office computer system backups were somehow corrupted. These people really know their stuff - they are very helpful and professional and quick! Thanks so much for everything.

Rob Deighton

11:33 09 Dec 16

Happy to recommend Data Clinic to anybody that suffered Data Loss on storage Media. The guys were extremely helpful and knowledgeable and made the recovery of our valuable data a stress free experience.

George Thorpe

12:19 20 Feb 14

My company provides IT support to approximately 60 Yorkshire based companies ranging from small 10-15 users up to Enterprise sized organizations. Due to disk failure a client recently lost their entire database. We contacted Data Clinic and within hours a representative was onsite, several hours later the drive was returned, again in person by Data Clinic Manchester. I would not hesitate contacting them again, outstanding service in a market that can mean life or death to a business. 10 stars if there was an option!

Kieran Collins

21:02 25 Oct 18

Fantastic. Could not fault them at all, Brilliant, 10 year old iMac full of data and they had the data back to me in 72 hours. Communication via e-mail was fast, clear and superb.

David Tett

14:36 24 Aug 18

Sent them a 4tb WD Red hard drive to recover. They quoted me £588 incl VAT and recovery media. I was a bit sceptical so I asked for it to be returned. First they sent me the wrong hard drive (a 500GB WD Blue). Not too careful about data protection then. When I eventually got the drive back it had been totally stripped and outer casing binned (would have been nice to know about this beforehand). I decided to send it to Curry's PC World. They quoted £90 + recovery media. All data recovered and both hard drives returned within a week. What more is there to say.

Elle Sweet

22:12 20 Aug 18

Awful communication, I was constantly chasing them for updates on my device. My device was with them days before work was started on it. The data this company couldn’t retrieve was later retrieve by Apple. Waste of a £110.

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