Advanced data recovery on a Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 ST3200827AS

on Mar 24 2011 in Data Recovery tagged by Emanuel

Today I want to highlight the benefits of  the microscope as a necessary tool for any engineer recovering data from a damaged hard drive.
It seems strange that a lot of professionals who have been recovering data for a long time don’t have a microscope and don’t take advantage of this tool.  It is as elementary as opening the hard drive only in a clean room environment and using the proper data recovery tools.

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About viruses

on Mar 21 2011 in Viruses tagged by Emanuel

 

Computer-virus infections don’t cause your hard drive to crash anymore. Though we have seen same rare cases of data corruption and encryption due to same viruses  .Nowadays, the criminals behind the infections usually want your computer operating in top form so you don’t know something’s wrong. That way, they can log your keystrokes and steal any passwords or credit-card numbers you enter at Web sites, or they can link your infected computer with others to send out spam.
Here are some signs your computer is infected, tapped to serve as part of “botnet” armies run by criminals:
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Recovering the data from the hard drive, which has a stuck spindle motor

on Mar 21 2011 in Data Recovery tagged by Emanuel

Advanced data recovery on Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320820AS and Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST3100524AS

One of the most frequent problems of modern hard drives is spindle engine shaft jamming. There are especially many Seagate hard discs, so popular in the United States that come to my lab for data recovery because of this failure.
This particular case is about a Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320820AS 320 GB SATA drive from which the customer needed only a quick books database recovered, of about 97Mb in size.

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