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<h2>Some Facts &amp; myths About data Recovery</h2>
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<h2>Do you really need a clean room to recover data from a hard drive?</h2>
<h2>Never put your hard drive in the freezer</h2>
<h2>Hard drive clicking are the heads damaged</h2>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><strong>In order to recover data it must be done in a clean room. This is based on what is called a Level 3 repair. Where the hard drive must be repaired in a dust free environment. </strong><strong>If the cover is removed from the hard drive for a head, platter or motor replacement.</strong></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><strong>The biggest data recovery “ MYTH “ is based on a </strong><strong>the</strong><strong> false </strong><strong>premise</strong><strong> that all data from hard drives must be recovered </strong><strong>in a dust free environment for the successful recovery of your data, from the defective hard drive. </strong></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><strong>&nbsp;Experience has shown about 70% of all bad hard drives can be successfully recovered without the need for level-3 ("which is very expensive to say the least") repair in a clean room.</strong></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><strong> If your drive wasn’t dropped, your&nbsp; chances for data recovery increase to about an 85%.</strong></p>
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Do you remember hearing this from the so called data recovery experts on the internet If your hard drive won’t spin-up, put it in the freezer for about an hour or two or maybe just overnight, and then <i><b>Whamo ... </b></i>it will spin-up. Really?

The chances of this working successfully are about zero to nil and then again if it did it would be a very short time before it died doing more damage to the hard drive which would end up being a Level 3 repair. The cover of your hard drive is removed and the platters of your hard drive must be inspected and in a clean room, costing you a lot of grief and dollars if the data was really important to you.

If your hard drive is overheating putting it in the freezer is not going to cure the problem its just going to add to the problem. Once the drive is taken out of the freezer condensation begins to build up on the platters. The condensation that built up on your platters will more than likely drip down on to your PCB board containing all the electronic chips that drive depends on to power up the drive control the speed of the platters and most important of all reading the data on your drive.&nbsp;

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<h6 style="text-align: center;"><em>Condensation build - up on the platters</em></h6>
<p style="text-align: left; padding-left: 40px;">If your hard drive is clicking does it mean that it has a defective head or heads ? No it doesn’t necessarily mean that the head(s) are damaged. The problem can be related to the following :</p>

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<p style="padding-left: 40px;">There are quite a few different clicking sounds that originate from a hard drive. And these clicking sounds can be caused from a variety of problems depending on the type of hard drive you have. Western Digital ,Seagate, for instance some Western Digital hard drives have a clinking sound which could be caused by a bad PCB board,</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;">Some Seagate drives depending on their firmware version will cause a clicking sound.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Actuator Arm</p>
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<h2>Hitting or banging on a dead A hard drive can bring it to life</h2>
<h2>Most Professional data recovery starts anywhere from $ 500 - $ 600</h2>
<h2>Soft Ware Can it really retrieve my data?</h2>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;">According to a top data recovery company on the U.S west coast approximately 20 % of clicking that is heard in hard drives are usually caused by sticking heads or scratched platters. And that is about what we have encountered.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><img src="https://bonelltechnologies.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/download-1-1.jpg" alt="" width="276" height="183">If the clicking is due to damaged heads, the heads can sometimes&nbsp; be replaced providing a full recovery. Head replacements are possible when the matching donor parts are available.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;">Donor parts are an <em><strong>extra cost</strong></em> on top of the data recovery and have to be done in a clean room environment..</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;">If your hard drive has 2 platters it will have 4 heads 2 heads for each platter data is stored on both the top ( in the form of 0’s and 1’s ) and bottom of the platter. We may be able to disable the one bad head in the drives firmware ( which is a safe and none destructive way) to recover anywhere from 80 - 90 percent of the data without having to remove the cover&nbsp;</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;">If your hard drive has 2 platters it will have 4 heads 2 heads for each platter data is stored on both the top ( in the form of 0’s and 1’s ) and bottom of the platter. We may be able to disable the one bad head in the drives firmware ( which is a safe and none destructive way) to recover anywhere from 80 - 90 percent of the data.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Actuator Arm</p>
Our Data Recovery fee is a<i><b> flat rate of $300 (</b></i>&nbsp;this does not include spare parts or donor parts as they are called ) Like we mentioned before approximately 85% of the hard drive data can be recovered for&nbsp; $300 due to most of the problems being firmware related.

Data recovery businesses offer a wide range of pricing when it comes to the recovery of your data. Some data recovery businesses wil list their pricing and other data recovery businesses will not list their prices. Instead they will have you fill out an email form or questionnaire. After you fill it out you send it back and then they give you an estimate of the cost.

Sometimes&nbsp;these companies try to entice you with rates “starting at $199,” but you will find the actual starting price is closer to $499 and quickly goes up to $1,500+ (not to mention fees for&nbsp;“donor parts” and “rush” service to get your data back<em>&nbsp;</em><em><i>in a few weeks</i></em>).

Another consideration in the price of a successful data recovery is the <strong><b>problem with your hard</b></strong> <strong><b>drive</b></strong>. A general rule of thumb: if your drive has bad heads, other companies will charge at least $1,000, but could charge more than $2,000. This all comes down to the honesty and integrity of the data recovery company you choose (and the true problem with your hard drive) because hard drives can often mimic symptoms of bad heads when the problem is something else completely.&nbsp;<em><i>*Note: if your drive has a bad head, we can often disable it and provide you with a partial recovery using the good heads.</i></em>

<strong>Software-based data recovery</strong>&nbsp;requires the hard drive to mount in the operating system. On a PC, that means it shows up in the BIOS or Window’s Disk Management. On a Mac, this means the hard drive appears in Disk Utility or on the Desktop. If the hard drive doesn’t show up on the computer, then software data recovery tools can’t access the hard drive and therefore can’t help recover any data.

Even if your drive is visible to your OS, running software data recovery tools can kill your hard drive. Repeatedly encountering bad sectors and re-reading problem areas on the drive can result in increased damage to the platters and a greater number of unrecoverable sectors.

Another significant risk when running software on your PC or Mac is that your OS may also attempt to “repair” your hard drive while it’s connected to the computer.&nbsp;<strong>This “repair” can completely destroy data</strong>&nbsp;when the hard drive has bad sectors (and most hard drive’s we receive have bad sectors along with more serious problems). This automatic repair often happens in the background without any user approval or knowledge.

Read&nbsp;<a href="http://www.deepspar.com/blog/Software-Recovery-Attempts-1.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">this</a>&nbsp;article on Deepspar’s blog for more details about the software data recovery myth, including the risks of connecting a bad drive to your computer (or even just leaving it powered on).

<strong>If you need your data back, don’t run the risk of destroying it forever by running software data recovery tools!</strong>

<strong><b>Software-based data recovery</b></strong>&nbsp;requires the hard drive to mount in the operating system. On a PC, that means it shows up in the BIOS or Window’s Disk Management. On a Mac, this means the hard drive appears in Disk Utility or on the Desktop. If the hard drive doesn’t show up on the computer, then software data recovery tools can’t access the hard drive and therefore can’t help recover any data.

Even if your drive is visible to your OS, running software data recovery tools can kill your hard drive. Repeatedly encountering bad sectors and re-reading problem areas on the drive can result in increased damage to the platters and a greater number of unrecoverable sectors.

Another significant risk when running software on your PC or Mac is that your OS may also attempt to “repair” your hard drive while it’s connected to the computer.&nbsp;<strong><b>This “repair” can completely destroy data</b></strong>&nbsp;when the hard drive has bad sectors (and most hard drive’s we receive have bad sectors along with more serious problems). This automatic repair often happens in the background without any user approval or knowledge.

Read&nbsp;<a href="http://www.deepspar.com/blog/Software-Recovery-Attempts-1.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">this</a>&nbsp;article on Deepspar’s blog for more details about the software data recovery myth, including the risks of connecting a bad drive to your computer (or even just leaving it powered on).

<strong><b>If you need your data back, don’t run the risk of destroying it forever by running software data recovery tools!</b></strong>