Dell and Buffalo Data Recovery

April 8, 2019 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd

Dell Data Recovery Hard drive on Dell XPS 8300 PC which is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB started making a lot of clicking, creaking noises and has now failed and will not boot after start up Windows screen (neither via ‘repair’ or ‘normal’ attempts). Gets stuck on blue Windows background screen (dove and tree twig). […]

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Array and Hard Disk Commands for Dell RAID Servers

February 12, 2016 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd

There are a number of commands available for user who work with Dell array disks. Please note: Use these with caution – should you require RAID assistance you can contact us here https://www.dataclinic.co.uk/raid-data-recovery/ for general RAID recovery advice, or here https://www.dataclinic.co.uk/dell-server-and-raid-data-recovery/ for Dell specific information. Format The Format command does a low-level formatting of the array disk. […]

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Recovering A 6 Disk Dell FreeNAS ZFS RAID 0

November 4, 2015 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd

A Case Study in ZFS Data Recovery System: 6 Disk Dell RAID 0 Operating System: FreeNAS File System: ZFS Location: London / Essex Outcome: Successful recovery We received a call from a customer with a crashed Dell 6 disk RAID 0 server. The server was configured using FreeNAS and running the ZFS file system. Zpools […]

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Data Recovery Case Study – Dell MD1000 Server

August 6, 2015 / Chris Seeley / Data Recovery Services, News

Recovering Data from a Failed Dell MD1000 RAID 5 Server Failed System Details Dell MD1000 RAID 5 15 x 2TB Seagate Barracuda XT’s 1 Drive is an unused hot spare Windows Server Failure Details Several drives had simultaneously failed resulting in the drives going offline and the server crashing. Restarting the server made no difference, […]

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Dell Server and RAID Data Recovery

July 20, 2015 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd

Dell’s popular Poweredge servers are available in 3 distinct types of model – Tower Servers (all with the letter T in their model name), Rackmount (with the letter R), and Blade (with the letter B). Recently Dell have announced an additional C line of servers, denoting high performance. Dell servers are capable of running many […]

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The RAID Rebuild Process

November 18, 2013 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd, Data Recovery General, Hard Disk Drive Storage

Rebuilding a RAID is a complex software driven process that is built into many RAID systems. Rebuilding is used to recreate data on RAID arrays when disks in the array fail. RAID systems offer a degree of data protection from hard drive failure by allowing the RAID array to copy data from the failed disk […]