by Recovery Force | Nov 7, 2016 | Blogs, NAS Data Recovery, RAID Data Recovery
Over the past few months, we have been seeing more QNAP servers coming in for data recovery. The issues we have recovered range from multiple drive failure to accidental deletion of the RAID arrays. A few common mistakes made that complicate the recovery efforts by...
by Recovery Force | Oct 26, 2016 | Blogs
Over the years, we have seen a lot of fatal head crashes. In some cases, we encountered what we thought to be fatal head crashes, but even surprised ourselves when we recovered significant amounts of data from those drives. So, it is rare that we see anything new...
by Recovery Force | Aug 23, 2016 | Blogs, Hard Drive Data Recovery
Although we like to think our success rate is very high, cases like these make sure that no data recovery lab can boast a perfect success rate. These are all Seagate 7200.12 hard drives over the past couple weeks. If you have a clicking hard drive, turn it off right...
by Recovery Force | Jul 25, 2016 | Blogs
It’s a warm summer’s Monday morning. You arrive at the office to hear the news that the main server is not accessible. After some investigation, you discover that there was a power outage over the weekend and the server is now showing an error message,...
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...
