Hard Drive Recovery

We work with a variety of hard drives. Whether it's ide, raid, sata, scsi, 3.5" , 2.5", 1.8", floppy disk, tape or a memory stick, we can help with data recovery. Manufacturers continue to develope drives that will handle more and more rigorous conditions, still it's just a mechanical device. Hard disks are incredibly reliable these days, with a Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) of 500,000 up to 1,000,000 hours. Corruption and data loss can and does occur, whether from a virus, accidental erasure or format, power loss, a physical crash of the device or a combination of any and all of these reasons, The Computer Hospital has many tools and methods for recovering lost data and we are sure to help you with you recovery needs.

If you hear a noise from inside your computer specifically a click, click, click; if you are unable to boot into your Operating System (Windows, Linux, ect.), or if you receive a “Delayed Write Failure” message while working in Windows - Immediately turn off your computer. The contact us, The Computer Hospital and we'll do what we can to help recover your precious data at a price you can live with. We can help!

People are always asking - Why did this happen. This happens for as I said for any number of reasons.

All hard drives have the same basic construction or architecture as we say in the business. If you were to open one up, you would see the same standard components in any hard drive. After removing the PCB board or electronics board and removing the cover (which of course will ruine the drive not to mention void any warranty you would see the heart of the drive. The hard drive is not much different than an old style turntable with a motor, arm with head, and platters much like a 45 or 78 vinyl record except this spins at more then 5400 revolutions per minute.

	Hard Drive Components Under the Electronics board of a hard drive, one can find:
		Motor - This component turns the hard drive's “platters” Arm- The arm contains what are called the heads, which read and write data to the platters of the hard drive. The mechanism that controls the position of the arm is incredibly fast and precise (moves back and forth up to 50 times per second) Platters- These are the components of the hard drive that spin (upwards of 3,600 to 15,000 RPM) and store the data. Most platters are made from a very finely machined aluminum/alloy and can store a tremendous amount of data, at a relatively permanent level.