New Data Clinic Office Locations in Belfast and Leicester

July 24, 2020 / Chris Seeley / Data Recovery Services

Data Clinic have recently acquired 2 new data recovery locations, one in Belfast and the other in Leicester. These are both offices where customers can bring in and drop off faulty equipment such as hard drives and mobile phones for data recovery. Data Clinic Belfast The Mount Business Centre 2, Woodstock Link Belfast BT6 8DD […]

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Data recovery on a damaged iPhone 8

June 16, 2020 / Chris Seeley / Data Recovery General

In this blog post we look at a badly damaged iPhone 8 Plus that came in for data recovery. The iPhone had been deliberately smashed several times against a wall. As you can see there is extensive damage to both the exterior and interior of the phone. After other phone recovery companies had assessed the […]

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Hard Drive Recovery

May 4, 2020 / Chris Seeley / Data Recovery Services

There’s a new page on the Data Clinic site specifically about getting files and folders back from broken and unresponsive hard disk drives. Take a look at our new hard drive recovery page. Seagate external hard drive. I am hoping that the problem is only a loose internal connection at the point where the lead […]

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Recovering data from a water damaged iPhone XS

March 18, 2020 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd, Data Recovery General

A Case Study In this case study we have been sent a water damaged iPhone XS (A2097) for data recovery. It contains all our customer’s essential data. The device became water damaged on March the 7th and we received it the following week. You can see from images 1 + 2 below that the device […]

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Western Digital ‘Slow Response’ Fault

March 4, 2020 / Chris Seeley / Data Recovery Services

This is a well known problem that affects all current models of Western Digital hard drive. Data Clinic successfully recover the data from all models of WD hard drive with this problem. Drives affected: All WD External hard drives (WD Elements, WD My Passport etc), Desktop 3.5″ hard drives, Laptop 2.5″ hard drives Hard Drive […]

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Data recovery and the SSD TRIM Feature

January 23, 2020 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd, Data Recovery Services

TRIM is a feature on solid state drives (SSDs) that provides an effective way of managing the data they contain. We are interested in TRIM in terms of data recovery because of the way TRIM handles deleted data. It’s not possible to recover deleted data from TRIM enabled SSDs. This is because when an SSD […]

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Data recovery from Bitlocker Encrypted Volumes

December 11, 2019 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd, Data Recovery Services, News

Data Clinic have two methods of successfully accessing, decrypting and recovering the data from Bitlocker encrypted hard drive volumes. What is Bitlocker ? Designed to protect the data stored on digital devices such as computer hard drives, BitLocker is a full volume encryption system for Microsoft computers running Windows Vista or later. It protects data […]

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Huawei Phones hang on loading screen

December 5, 2019 / Chris Seeley / News

Here are a selection of enquiries regarding data recovery on Huawei phones – you can find Data Clinic’s page about Huawei phone data recovery at https://www.dataclinic.co.uk/android-data-recovery/. After a recent update my Huawei phone hangs on the loading screen. there are a large number of non-backed up photos that i hope can be recovered. please confirm […]

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Data Clinic Sheffield – We are moving

September 17, 2019 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd

September 2019 sees Data Clinic moving offices in Sheffield. From 18th September our new address will be: The Balance 2 Pinfold Street Sheffield S1 2GU Our phone number remains the same as before: 0114 208 6027 Our old address of The Portergate, Eccleshall Road, S11 8NX will close as the building is going into a […]

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Data Recovery Q&A – July 2019

July 2, 2019 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd, News

Welcome to Data Clinic’s data recovery Q&A for July 2019 – real data recovery questions from real people who have lost data all across the United Kingdom who want their files back. Recover Data from Seagate ST9500325AS Home user. Personal Seagate Momentus 500GB (ST9500325AS) no longer reading. All software recovery options failed with SATA connection. […]

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