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Data recovery
is the process of retrieving data from
damaged, failed, corrupted, or inaccessible hard disks, thumb drives,
or any type of media when it cannot be accessed by normal means.
Recovery may be required due to physical damage to the storage device
or logical damage to the file system that prevents it from being recognized
by the host.
SYMPTOMS OR SIGNS
OF MEDIA FAILURE:
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Raid Arrays, Hard drives,
Flash drives or Camera Cards won´t boot up
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Damaged or burnt logic
board
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Bad spindle motor (platter
does not spin)
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Grinding, Squealing
or Clicking sounds
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"Disk error",
"No operating system found", "Drive not found"
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Formatted hard drive
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Accidental file deletion
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Broken Flash Drives
or Camera Cards
LOGICAL
DATA RECOVERY
Logical failure occurs when the basic
file system is corrupted. An example would be when a virus attacks
or you lose a partition. The media is still mechanically intact but
you can no longer access the data. Using standard software utilities
to attempt self-recovery could render your data unrecoverable. Most
standard software utilities are good for preventive maintenance but
could cause irreparable damage when there are already logical problems.
Some times a combination of several data recovery procedures are needed
to get your data back.
Some tasks that we do to recover
your data from logical failure are:
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Master Boot Record
Repair
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Virus detection and
cleaning
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Core System Programs
restoration
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Bad sector repair
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Overcome CRC and ECC
errors
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and more...
PHYSICAL
DATA RECOVERY
A wide variety of failures
can cause physical damage to storage media. CD-ROMs can have their
metallic substrate or dye layer scratched off; hard disks can suffer
any of several mechanical failures such as head crashes and failed
motors; tapes can simply break. Physical damage always causes at least
some data loss, and in many cases the logical structures of file systems
are damaged as well.
Most physical damage cannot be repaired by end users. For example,
opening a hard disk in a normal environment can allow airborne particles
to settle on the platter and become caught between the platter and
the read/write head(s). This can cause new head crashes that further
damage the platter and thus compromise the recovery process. Furthermore,
end users generally do not have the hardware or technical expertise
required to make these repairs.
Ximatic - Data Recovery
Services recognizes three levels of physical failure in storage media
like hard disks, thumb drives and camera cards. These are:
Firmware, Electrical and Mechanical.
Firmware Failure:
In simple words, this refers to special programs that come with
the hard drive inside of the microprocessor or in a separate chip
(ROM) to make the hard drive become a hard drive. It is a specialized
type of software that controls the reading and writing to and from
the platter(s) in a hard disk or thumb drive or camera card.
Ximatic
- Data Recovery Service has the specials tools and instruments to
deal with this type of failure. We can repair adaptive, translator,
and other modules to make your media temporarily work enough to
recover your data.
Electrical Failure:
Basically, this refers to damage on the logic board or printed circuit
board (PCB) of a storage device, which holds the majority of electronic
components. Some electronics are located on the head assembly inside
of hard disks.
Ximatic
- Data Recovery Service can deal with burned components, current
out of range, burned traces, and with complex troubleshooting of
the logic board to determine what area has problems. It can be the
power area, spindle motor and voice coil motor area, read channel
area, or the microprocessor area. Our many years of experience and
knowledge allow us to perform a very accurate diagnosis of your
media and choose the right procedure to use.
Mechanical Failure:
This is when your media has problem like a stuck spindle motor,
bad read/write heads, etc. In other words, actual moving parts of
the drive have failed to function properly. With these types of
failures it necessary to open the hard disk to do the repair.
Ximatic
- Data Recovery Service will perform special procedures in a clean
environment to repair mechanical failures. In these cases the hard
disk needs to be opened to replace the head assembly or transplant
platters due to a spindle motor that doesn’t turn. These are
the most complex repairs to make but we have the knowledge, technology,
and the ability to get the job done!
Some
tasks that we do to recover your data from physical failure
are:
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Electronic component
replacement
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Rebuild burn traces
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Spindle motor and Voice
Coil Motor repair
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Platter Trasplant (
from "one" to "n" platters)
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Head assembly replacement
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Hex code repair (modules
such as; translator, adaptives, etc.)
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and more ...
When you come in or send us
your drive, we will immediately perform a free diagnoses, explain the
problem to you and give you an accurate price quote.We
have a certified, class 100 clean room and all work is perform locally,
in house by Electrical, Mechanical or IT engineers! with over 40 years
combined experience in Data Recovery, you can count on Ximatic to get
the job done! And if your data is unrecoverable, you pay nothing.
CALL US TODAY!
720.870.3739
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