Hard Drive Failure After System Reboot
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, "boot disk not...
Western Digital 2TB Hard Drive 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...
Inaccessible Partition Showing As RAW?
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 Sector(BS) is...