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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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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Data Recovery Q&A – June 2017 – Part 2

June 26, 2017 / Chris Seeley / Data Recovery Services, News

In this post we look at two common hard drive problems and what you can do about them. Both questions were submitted to us last week. Hard drive Recognised but won’t read data Q: The HDD is a Seagate Barracude 3TB 7,200RPM mechanical hard drive and has recently failed. I am unable to run any […]

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Portable Hard Drives – Help and Advice Problem Page March 2016

March 7, 2016 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd, Data Recovery Services

Portable Hard Drive Faults In the last few days we’ve had many enquiries about problems with external hard drives – here are 3 of them. Samsung M3 Portable Hard Drive Not Recognised Bought a Samsung M3 portable 1TB external hard drive last August. Although it is under warranty, it can be replaced only but not […]

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Recovering Images From A Vandalised CCTV System

January 11, 2016 / Chris Seeley / News

This week we provide help and advice to the owner of a vandalised CCTV system who was burgled. I need to recover data from a hard-disk drive from a desktop PC CCTV system which was damaged by vandals. Certainly there appears to have been physical damage done to it. The drive has not been spun-up […]

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Help and Advice: A Buffalo LinkStation in Emergency Mode

December 9, 2015 / Chris Seeley / News

“We have all our data stored on a Buffalo LinkStation Duo. We had bought a second one about 18 months ago onto which we were going to install a RAID 1 configuration but before getting round to it we received a message saying Failure – into Emergency Mode Tried Firmware update as noted in dialogue […]

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Data Recovery Q&A, October 2015 Part 4

October 28, 2015 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd

Here are 3 enquiries from this week’s data recovery questions. A Data Loss Situation Not Related To A Hard Drive Fault Hard drive is now saying it needs formatting. I cant access any of the data on it. When I plug it in to lap top file explorer stops working. This is a prime example […]

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Hard Drive Help and Advice – An Unresponsive Hard Drive

October 1, 2015 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd, News

Here’s a useful Question and Answer session about an unresponsive hard drive. The information here applies to all types of hard drive – desktop, laptop, external, portable etc and all manufacturers – Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba, LaCie etc. “I’m writing to enquire about a quote for a hard drive recovery. We have a hard drive […]

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Old IDE (PATA) Hard Drive Recovery Q&A

September 11, 2015 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd

A Faulty Western Digital IDE Drive I have a Western Digital WD5000AAJS HD that died on me seven years ago now. It became completely dead and unable to connect or power on, the hard drive itself has been removed form its outer shell in one piece. I just never got round to taking to a […]

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Help With Hard Drives – Q&A, September 2015

September 8, 2015 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd, News

Problems With Portable Drives Here are some enquiries we’ve had come in this week about problems with portable (or ‘USB’) external hard drives. As always, refer to our main external hard drive recovery page for general recovery information on all types of external, portable and USB hard drive problem. Western Digital’s… My western digital my […]

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We had a double-disk failure in a RAID5 array which Data Clinic were able to recover and return all the data to us. The service and communication at each stage of the process was excellent. Scott Fuller, Head of ICT, Diocese of London

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