Hard Disk Data Recovery

Optimum Data Recovery, Inc. provides hard disk drive data recovery services for IDE, EIDE, SCSI hard disk drives. We work with all operating systems including Windows, DOS, MAC, Novell, UNIX, Linux. Hard Drive manufacturers and models.

Reasons for physical damage to the hard drive

Mechanical failure, clicking noise

Electrical failure
Misalignment of Read/Write Heads
Damaged Read/Write Heads
Hard drives not being recognized by the BIOS.
Drives with burned chips on the logic board
Drives with physical damage, such as being dropped, flooded etc.
Drive Platters with excessive bad sectors

Reasons for non-physical (logical) damage to the hard drive

Corrupted Partition Tables
Corrupted File Allocation Tables (FAT)
Corrupted Master File Tables (MFT)
Deleted Files
Formatted Drives
Virus Attacks

If you notice any irregular noise coming from the hard drive, it means that the hard disk drive in question has either crashed or going to crash very soon. Please, try to back up your data, while the computer is still running. Ways to Backup Your Data!

Increased noise is the first sign that hard drive is becoming unstable and it is going to crash on you. Shut down your computer, if the Operating system has stopped working and there is clicking, scratching or grinding noise coming from hard drive. Keeping the system running at this stage may damage the platters to the extent that it will destroy all the data. Do not even try to hook it up with another computer as the drive is already crashed and the data is inaccessible.

Sometime, you feel that the drive is spinning but it is not detected by BIOS. This is another sign of hard drive crash. This case should also be treated with care. If you feel that physically, the hard disk drive in question is fine and being detected by BIOS and the BIOS is reading the correct size of hard drive, then you can hook it up with another computer to see if data is accessible. If you can access the data, that is a good news, but if you still cannot access the data, do not try to recover it by using repair utilities as these utilities are designed for few specific problems and if the problem is not the one these utilities are designed to fix, this may lead to further damage to the data. You should only use the repair utilities, if you are sure of the problem and that the repair utility will fix that particular problem.

If you need further assistance or have any questions, feel free to Contact Us OR Call Toll Free at: 1-800-580-4959. We will provide you with the best possible assistance.Get free Data Recovery Diagnosisfor your hard drive now!

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