External Hard Drive Data Recovery – Help and Advice

June 27, 2016 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd, News

We get a lot of enquiries for external hard drive recovery. Most of us have at least one portable drive to keep our data on and below are a selection of questions that were asked this weekend. To help, I’ve put the links to the various parts of the site where you’ll find more information […]

SSD vs HDD – Who Wins ?

December 3, 2013 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd, SSD

If the news and magazine articles are to be believed you could be forgiven for thinking that SSD hard disk technology is sweeping all older technologies like HDD before it. But you’d be wrong. A significant study looking at the industry take up of SSDs and their effect on technology has found that SSD technology […]

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How To Spot Imminent Hard Disk Failure

October 21, 2013 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd, Data Recovery General, Seagate, Western Digital WD

Unlike most of a computer’s components, the hard disk is mechanical and can be damaged by both mechanical and electrical factors. As a result, the hard disk is particularly vulnerable to damage and problems. Hard disks are subject to wear and can fail for a number of reasons. Mechanical failure is the cause of most […]

Hard Drive Data Recovery Services – Birmingham Area

August 5, 2013 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd

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DataClinic’s Birmingham data recovery service centre is located in central Birmingham, on Broad Street. Open from 9am until 5.30pm from Monday to Friday (and for drop offs during the weekend), the office covers the following areas: West Bromwich, Oldbury-Smethwick, Sutton Coldfield, Water Orton, Solihull, Halesowen, Walsall, Dudley, Aldridge, Hampton in Arden, Barnt Green, Alvechurch, Knowle-Bentley […]

Hard Disk Drive Data Recovery Services – Liverpool, Merseyside, Wirral Area

July 31, 2013 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd

DataClinic Hard Disk Drive Data Recovery Liverpool Area

DataClinic’s Liverpool data recovery service centre is situated in the centre of Liverpool. Open from 9am until 5.30pm from Monday to Friday (and for drop offs during the weekend), the office covers the following areas: Birkenhead, Bootle, Wallasey, Bebington, Litherland, Huyton-with-Roby, Crosby, Maghull-Lydiate, Greasby, Kirkby, Heswall, Prescot, Hoylake, West Kirby, Hightown, Neston, Ellesmere Port, Rainford, […]

What’s The Most Reliable Hard Disk Drive?

July 30, 2013 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd

Hard drives…. Not really that interesting are they ? You probably think that because they all look the same and do the same things that they’re as reliable as each other. But you’d we wrong. A study by a French hardware site has shown varying degrees of hard drive reliability in both 1TB and 2TB […]

New Phone Numbers for Hard Disk Drive Data Recovery Services

July 23, 2013 / Chris Seeley / Uncategorized

Telephone numbers for hard disk drive data recovery services

Our hard disk drive data recovery service centres in Birmingham, Sheffield, Northampton and Sunderland now have local phone numbers you can call instead of the generic 0871 UK wide number. They are: Data Recovery Birmingham 0121 629 0436 Data Recovery Northampton 01604 529 356 Data Recovery Sheffield 0114 208 6027 Data Recovery Sunderland 0191 204 9612 We’ve now got […]

What Does A Spindle Failure / Seized Motor On A Hard Disk Look Like ?

July 18, 2013 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd

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If you’ve ever dropped your external hard drive whilst it’s been switched on and then found it does nothing except go buzz… buzz… buzz… then you’ve had a seized motor or spindle failure…. This is one of the worst types of hard disk failure as it involves the mechanical (moving) parts of the hard drive. […]

It’s Not Just Big Businesses That Need Data Recovery

June 27, 2013 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd

We’ve been proud to help lots of different businesses recover their data after experiencing hard drive failure or problems with a server. However it doesn’t stop there. It’s easy to assume the only businesses that have trouble with data loss from time to time are the large ones, but this isn’t the case. It’s probably […]