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Death Of A Hard Drive

Does Your Drive Sound Like This?

• Head Crash
• Bad Head
• Bad Head 2
• Bad Head 3
• Slow Spindle Motor
• Head Stuck To Platter


If your hard drive sounds like any of the above, power your system down immediatly! Just pull the plug if you have to, and do not reapply power to the drive. Call a data recovery professional to have the drive evaluated.


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• GE
• Nestle
• Raytheon Missle Systems
• Lockheed Martin
• St. John's University
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• SAIC
• St. Luke's Episc. Hospital
• Clorox
• Washburn University
• Xerox
• U.S. Bankruptcy Court
• TXU Electric
• 1st Pacific Bank of California
• Technicore
• Johnson Controls
• Lear Siegler
• Dell
• SportsfanOutlet.com
• University of Notre Dame
• University of Texas
• University of S. Carolina
• U.S. Army
• U.S. Marines
• Killeen I.S.D.
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• DOS Computers
• Naval Surface Warfare
• XAP Corporation
• Fig Leaf Software
• Louis Berger Group
• University of Missouri
• FlightSafety
• Motorola
• Naval Research Lab
• Hilton Grand Resorts
• DynCorp
• XFab - Texas
• Indiana University
• City of Ottawa KS
• Alemite
• Gyro Trac


Customer Feedback

"Our critical customer data was lost on our primary and backup systems. With 2 dead drives in a RAID 5 array, we thought our data was gone for good. Thank you for all of your help in getting us back up and running."
- T. Fisher


"When our RAID crashed, ACS Data was able to save our business. Thank you Thank, You Thank, You!"
- J. Davis

"My hard drive sounded like it was full of gravel when it crashed, all of my accounting and graphic designs were lost. ACS data recovery was able to recover all of my data and save my business."
- M. Bartonelli
"ACS Data was able to recover all of our product database when our server's hard drive crashed. We were given a reasonable price range, and they stuck by their quote. We are extremely pleased to have our data back."
- T. Blaine

"We called a number of data recovery companies, and we elected to go with ACS. We're glad we did. You folks were able to get every file back (even some we had deleted long ago), your technicians were friendly and knowledgeable and kept us informed throughout the entire process."
- J. Robnett

"Most of my wedding images were taken digitally and stored on my laptop. My hard drive crashed, and I lost all of the photos. ACS Data was able to recover all of the pictures for me. THANK YOU!"
- A. McAllistor

"ACS Data got the job done right and in a reasonable amount of time. Great job."
- S. Martin


"Thanks for your honesty. Even though my hard drive was unrecoverable, you still stuck by your promise and didn't charge anything for attempting the recovery. I was worried that there would be some hidden charges, and was happy to know there weren't."
- C. Mitchell

 


Data Recovery Methods
By Michael Russell

Sometimes, due to unforeseen occurrences, it may become necessary to recover information from your hard drive. For instance, you computer may encounter problems and you need to recover documents. In many cases such data retrieval is quite possible. So, how exactly does data recovery work?

Specialists in data recovery will take your hard drive and evaluate it. Skilled technicians will determine how much information can actually be retrieved from your hard drive and what will be necessary to retrieve the lost data. Once this evaluation is complete; the data recovery provider will advise you what needs to be done to retrieve your data and how much the work will cost you.

Lost data can be recovered successfully about 80 percent of the time. Bear in mind however, that the evaluation process can take several days to weeks, and it may or may not prove successful in determining what the problem with the computer is. Then, if you should decide to give the data recovery provider the go ahead, they will clone the system and begin attempting to retrieve the data that is on your hard drive. Laptops and notebooks can also have data recovered from them. Despite the fact that the procedures for doing so are different than those used on standard computers, data can still be recovered from these mini-computers. In essence, the primary difference is that these computers require smaller tools in order to recover the data on them because they are so much smaller. Specialists do not require your entire computer to recover your data. Rather, you can simply ship your hard drive to them and they will retrieve the data from it.

Nevertheless, as a hard drive is a sensitive piece of equipment it, needs to be shipped very carefully. The drive will have to be wrapped in material that will not produce static and you should avoid the use of Styrofoam peanuts at all costs - they create a significant amount of static and static can destroy a hard drive.

There are also some other things to be aware of if you want to attempt data recovery. For instance, if you hard drive is exposed to water, you should be quite careful when shipping it. It is advised that data can be retrieved better before the hard drive dries out, therefore it is suggested that you ship it with a damp cloth in a plastic bag to ensure that it stays wet until it can be evaluated. Finally, when you do ship your hard drive to a data recovery provider, be sure to place it in a cardboard box, wrapped in bubble wrap, where it will have very little room to move around.


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Michael Russell
Your Independent guide to Data Recovery
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Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Michael_Russel


If you have experienced a loss of data, contact ACS Data Recovery today. ACS Data Recovery will work with you each step of the way. We know how valuable your data is, and that is why we each case gets the same undivided attention.

To get started, please take a moment to call and speak with one of our friendly data recovery professionals toll-free at 1-800-717-8974. They will consult with you and give you a flat-rate price for your recovery, depending on the type of failure you have experienced. After you have spoken with a representative, please Complete Our Data Recovery Request Form. Once you have completed this form, simply print it out and ship it with your media. It's that simple! Once we receive the drive, we will evaluate it and give you a call to confirm the price before we ever start the recovery procedure.

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• FAT & NTFS
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Hard Drive Types
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• Laptop Drives
• SATA
• SCSI
• USB Drives
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Hard Drive Brands
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• SmartDisk
• MicroNet
• Edge
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• Iogear
• Pocketech
• SimpleTech
• Samsung
• Memory Sticks
• Compact Flash
• USB Drives
• Media Players

RAID Systems
• RAID 0 Striped Set
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• Dell Poweredge
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• SNAP
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• Flash Memory
• Hyperdrive
• Memory Stick
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