Laptop data recovery - 0800 072 3282
As laptop (or notebook) hard disk drives (HDD) are very small in comparison to desktop disks, the internal mechanics are miniature versions of their desktop counterparts, and so special tooling, equipment and handling procedures are required to recover data from laptop hard disk drives.
Typical failures that we have seen with laptop hard disk drives are mainly due to electronic or mechanical failure, where either the drive does not spin at all, or if it does, then 'ticking' or 'crunching' noises can sometimes be heard when switching on the computer - this particular problem is mainly due to an internal head amplifier failure or, more seriously, a head crash or misalignment problem - most of time, the data is recoverable.
We offer a range of prices and time scales to suit your budget and urgency of the drive.
- Emergency service - work completed within 24 hours from receipt of drive.
- Priority service - work completed within 48 hours.
- Standard service - work completed within 4 days.
- Non urgent - completed within 7 - 14 days.
Please note that the time scales will vary according to the problem with the drive. In some cases, for example, excessive bad sectors, the drive may take longer to image than the time scales described.
We have a very high success rate for data recovery on laptop hard disk drives, and have performed data recovery from all manufacturers of notebook and laptop hard disks, including IBM®, Toshiba®, HP®, Fujitsu®, Hitachi® and others. We can recover data from standard 2.5" and 1.8" format laptop hard disk drives.
Seized motors ... loud grinding or rattling noises from your laptop
We are starting to see a failure mode with certain laptop hard disk drives where the motor bearing has seized. We have now developed procedures to recover data from this type of problem. The symptoms are that the hard disks either make no noise at all as the bearing has seized or it makes loud grinding or rattling noises at start up and the drive motor stops. When attempting to restart the computer the hard disk makes very quiet 'creaking' noises or no noise at all. The techniques and platter re-positioning and alignment systems we have developed now enable us to recover data from all manufacturers of hard disk drives with seized motors.