Tales from the Blizzard Data Recovery lab: advice for data recovery, tips for data preservation, and general wisdom from someone who has been working on computers and other electronic hardware for decades.
This is an example of a recent recovery we did at Blizzard Data Recovery. In this case the USB flash drive had been broken in half. Some cases are just a matter of replacing the broken connector, testing for shorts or open circuits, and then recovering the data. Although that doesn’t sound too difficult we […]
We recently added to our long list of HDD repair tools and were pleasantly surprised at the quality and value of these new tools. The platter removal tools and platter stand from HDD Head Tools (DFL) support both 2.5″ and 3.5″ hard drives. The platter removal tools (1 x 2.5″ and 1 x 3.5″ tool) […]
SORRY! This offer has ended. If you have an old 2GB, 4GB, or even an 8GB USB flash drive, you can trade it in for a brand new 8GB flash drive. Just stop in at Blizzard Data Recovery. Do you have a 16GB USB disk and want two 8GB devices in trade? No problem, as […]
We continue proving to new customers that we are more than competitive, “we make data recovery affordable”. This past month, we received cases that had already been quoted by Drive Savers and by Seagate Recovery Services. Here are two examples. Case number 1 was a Western Digital SATA drive model WD5000AAKS. The drive was sent […]
This post might be helpful if you are thinking about starting your own hard disk drive data recovery lab, but the primary reason for writing it is to let our customers see why the business is different than computer repair and support. We also get questions about the the cost of recovery, even with our […]
This week’s special case was a 2007 PATA HDD. This Samsung SP2514N was in an external enclosure and got knocked over. Since the drive was identified as dropped and “previously opened” we first opened it in one of our laminar airflow workstations. Upon inspection we noticed a stiction mark on the top platter but the […]
At Blizzard Data Recovery we sometimes get asked “What is a re-certified hard drive?” According to Seagate if you return a defective drive they “may replace your product with a product that was previously used, repaired and tested to meet Seagate specifications”. In our experience the replacement drive the customer receives will often have a […]
The following is information we have gathered to help find compatible hard drives for Seagate data recovery cases. None of this information is guaranteed to provide a matching donor. This is just information that we have gathered from other resources and then refined from our own experience. Use at your own risk and expense. There […]
This weeks special case was a 6GB Western Digital EIDE hard disk drive. That’s right! That was not a typo, six gigabytes of storage in one desktop hard drive that was manufactured in 1999. The data was distributed across two platters but only used 3 heads. This hard drive was making some very unusual screeching […]