Data Recovery:

All Western Digital Hard Drive Recovery is Recession price only £275+vat (excludes vat at 20%). We have permanently reduced all our data recovery products until the recession ends. We are currently the cheapest in the UK and offer this service on a 'No Fix No Fee' basis. We successfully recovery 99% of all hard drives we receive and in many cases, return it the recovered data within 48/72 hours! No Fix No Fee means if we cannot recover your data then you pay nothing.

Your Western Digital Drive will produce error messages as below:

Primary Hard Disk not found
CRC errors when you attempt to copy files
Invalid or corrupt FAT
Invalid partition table entries
System Virus attack
LED on external hard drive flashing
Cannot find file or program
Primary/Secondary Hard disk failure
Windows or Mac corrupt directory listing
Hard drive is making clicking or ticking noises
LED on external hard drive flashing
Hard drive beeps repeatly
Hard drive is quiet, probably means motor is not spinning
Master Boot Record Not Found
Non system disk or disk errors

Follow the steps below to send in your hard drive to us:

Step 1

Send us your Hard Drive to our postal address; details are below and on our contact page. Send the Hard Drive via a suitable postage service along with your Contact Details (Full Name, Full Postal Address, Phone Number & Email Address). We recommend Royal Mail Next Day Special Delivery. The average costs are £4.50 via this delivery method and the contents are fully insured up to a value of £500.

Our Address:

Advanced Data Recovery
88 Kingsway,
Holborn,
London,
WC2B 6AA

Step 2

Our Diagnosis will confirm the level of data recovery that we can attain from your Hard Drive, we will contact you ASAP to determine what data you want recovered.

Step 3

We will recover the data you want and copy the contents onto a suitable media.

Step 4

We send the recovered data back to you via a Next Day Courier Service. Our aim to send the recovered data back to you within 48/72 hours.

Western Digital Data Recovery Information:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital hard disks experience is burnt board (PCB).Western Digital manufactures a large portion of the world's hard disk drives. In recent years the company has broken ground in the storage industry with a number of innovations. In 2001, a series of ATA hard disk drives (Special Edition) with an 8MB cache buffer were released at a time when most hard drives ran with only a maximum 2MB of buffer. Then, in 2003, they launched the world's first 10,000RPM Serial ATA hard disk drive, The Raptor, a 36 GB unit with an access time of less than 6ms - followed soon after by a quieter 74GB version. Western Digital drives are vulnerable to overheating. Bad power supply unit's combined with a power surge is usually enough to damage micro chips on the electronics PCB and make the data inaccessible.

If your drive suffers from an electronic failure then we can recover the data for you. In our data recovery lab we use specialised hardware systems to modify a new PCB electronic board and then use specialised software to rewite corrrect firmware modules to the hard drive. This Western Digital fix helps us recover a large precentage of these electronic damaged drives.

Western Digital drives have a tendency to sustain damage to the hard drive's firmware zone thus blocking access to the data on the hard disk. Typically, when the system is booting up, it will hang for a few seconds while the BIOS tries to find the volume. Even though the hard disk may or may not be recognised correctly (if at all) the drive's performance will slow dramatically before it the hard disk fails altogether, other failures include:

1. It is not found in BIOS when you boot your computer.
2. Identifies the hard drive as its factory alias (for example WDC ROM MODEL-HAWK)
3. Shows up with wrong S/N (for example WDC-ROM SN# 254) or capacity,
4. Identifies fine but fails to read any data or boot up operating system giving I/O device errors whenever you try to access the sectors on the hard drive.

If you attempt to boot up from such drive or read any data from it you would get "Primary Master Hard Disk Fail" or "No operating system found" or "S.M.A.R.T. Capable But Command Failed" or "Disk boot failure. Insert system disk and press enter", "Hard drive not recognized", "Drive Mount Failure" or some other hard drive boot error.

The Western Digital drive can spin up and the head starts clicking right from the beginning with a regular clicking sound . More times than not this a sign of bad heads, if this is the case it is very important to perform accurate diagnostics and eliminate a chance of possible firmware corruption or PCB failure that sometimes could also cause clicking.

AV-GP Heads are normally parked on the parking ramp outside of the platters, but sometimes after a fall or abnormal termination they fail to return to their regular parking position and are left on the surface. Immediately after the motor stops spinning they stick to the ideally smooth surface and it becomes impossible to free them without proper tools and experience. Don't attempt to open the drive by yourself - you will damage the platters and this will make your data unrecoverable.

The last typical Western Digital hard drive issue applies also to all other hard drive makes and models, the problem is called bad sectors. After some period of time the platters were the data is located starts to degrade and bad sectors appear.
Whenever the hard drive attempts to read bad sectors it could start freezing, scratching, ticking and sometimes loud clicking. This leads to further damage to the surface and causes more data loss. As soon as you start experiencing such symptoms while reading important files, stop the drive immediately and consider sending it to a data recovery company like ourselves for a free diagnostic. Any further attempts to read the Western Digital drive would just add up to the problems and make more data unrecoverable. In our Data Recovery Lab we use expensive imaging tools that are capable of force reading bad sectors from Western Digital Hard Disks. This is usually the only way to effectively retrieve data from these Drives.

We are here to help, during working hours we respond to emails within 5 minutes. Out of hours is usually on the hour. Business hours are Monday - Friday 9am - 5.30pm GMT.

support@advanceddatarecovery.co.uk

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