Hard Drive Recovery 101

This is an excellent article that lays out the 3 types of hard disk data recovery services and drive failure. Continue reading for the full article.

clipped from www.cuddletech.com This post will refer solely to drives for personal use. In the datacenter you should be using RAID and/or backup or redundancy method in which case a single drive failure isn’t something you waste time trying to analyze or fix. I’ve run into 3 major types of drive failure: PCB Failure: A case in which the PCB has been “fried”. This happened dramtically once when connected an IDE drive to a system and let the disk rest, upside down, ontop of the case. It ran fine for aminute and then pop/spark there was a hole burned in a chip on the PCB. In this case the only solution is to go to eBay and buy an identical drive and swap the PCB.