by Recovery Force | Jul 5, 2016 | Blogs, Hard Drive Data Recovery
We just recently completed a data recovery project from a Western Digital WD20EARX-22PASB0 hard drive that was reported to us as having a knocking noise. During our assessment, we did not encounter any unusual noises and found that the drive powered on and detected...
by Recovery Force | Jun 23, 2016 | Blogs
A very common symptom of a failing hard drive is for Windows to pop up with a message saying, “You need to format the disk in drive E: before you can use it.” From the perspective of Windows, this message is brought up for a couple of reasons: The Boot...
by Recovery Force | Jun 20, 2016 | Blogs, RAID Data Recovery
The Recovery Force team just recently recovered data from an Apple Xserve 2008 setup with three 1TB hard drives configured in a RAID 5 storage array. The original issue was a failed system board, but things got a little worse when the computer tech who first looked...
by Recovery Force | Jun 15, 2016 | Blogs, RAID Data Recovery
The Recovery Force team recently recovered all the data from a critical storage volume contained on an HP Smart Array P420i 6 x 300GB SAS Drive RAID 5 array which was accidentally formatted. We were informed that without this data, several hundred employees were...
by Recovery Force | Jun 10, 2016 | Blogs
Ever hear someone say, “what is the worse that could happen?” You aren’t the only one. Very frequently, we see the end results from clients following online suggestions from various forums and YouTube videos telling end users how professional data...