E-man Data Recovery: If You Care About Your Lost Data, Leave the Data Recovery to the ExpertsAdvanced Data Recovery on Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320820AS

    SNOHOMISH, WA, July 09, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- One of the most frequent problems of modern hard drives is spindle engine shaft jamming. There are especially many Seagate hard discs, so popular in the United States that come to my lab for data recovery because of this failure.

This particular case is about a Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320820AS 320 GB SATA drive from which the customer needed only a quick books data base recovered, of about 97Mb in size.

When you power on the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320820AS HDD, it starts to buzz in the hermetical zone and it is not recognized by BIOS. A problem like this can be the result of a mechanical failure in the hard drive (a strike, a fall etc.) or a factory defect of the hard drive.

The bearing seizing is often aggravated by the burned-out chip, as it tries to accelerate the motor and causes an overload resulting in temperature rise and chip failure. Replacement of the printed circuit board from a serviceable drive in this case may result in another burned-out chip.

A donor disc is needed for data recovery to install platters of the defective HDD into its hermetical zone. The operation is complicated as it demands posterior plate centering because any shaft micro shift can interfere with the heads being correctly positioned on the servo marking.

HDD hermetical zone with the spindle engine shaft jamming

In 30% of the cases we are able to use one of our prototype tools that we designed especially for this particular Seagate model. We also have for sale different tools for different models of hard drives for $349 per tool (patent pending).

In about 70% of the cases we have to remove the platters, magnets, heads and logical board from a donor hard drive to a patient hard drive. Be aware that this operation has to be done in a clean room environment (class 100) and the process is very delicate due to the fact that the alignment between the platters must be maintained.

The heads can never touch each other (head slap). The use of a head removal tool is absolutely recommended to maintain the distance between the heads.

Also you need a special tool that is able to read the bad sectors because most likely you will have a large number of bad sectors (pc 000 Udma - data recovery experts know what I am talking about)

Be careful at the spacers between the platters; you don't want to cause any additional damage to the platters.

Make sure that the donor hard drive is compatible with the patient, otherwise the transplant will not be successful. First attempt is your best chance, you don't want to keep trying with different donors.

Good luck in your attempt (don't try this at home) unless the data is not important.

Disclosure: this article is for reference only. The name of some tools and also some of the important steps are maintained confidential.

If the data is critical, send it to the experts www.emandatarecovery.com phone: (425) 347-3732.

In this particular case the data was successfully recovered for the price of $500.

Many thanks to our partner who recommended the customer to our shop.

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-- Your hard drive crashed and your data is gone. Your first instinct is to try everything you can to get your data back, from software applications to unconventional home remedies. On the other hand, if you really care about the information on that crashed drive, getting it to an expert is the first and only step that guarantees a high success rate in recovering your data.

As data recovery specialists, we have seen it all - from over-damaged platters due recovery attempts using utility software, to defrosted hard drives that were placed in the freezer in an attempt to recover the data from clicking heads. Permanent data loss is likely to occur if you don't understand how fragile the mechanism inside a hard drive is and treat it as such.

Here are a few tips:
- Any clicking or grinding noise means that your hard drive is likely to have physical damage. Do not attempt to retrieve the data using utility software, as the continued operation of the hard drive is likely to result in more damage. Sometimes the data is scraped from the hard drive's platters and turned into magnetic dust. Your data cannot be recovered if it's not there anymore.
- If the hard drive is not recognized in the setup when you connect it to a computer, do not attempt recovery. If you attempt to swap the circuit board with an identical model, there is a chance the bad sector table (adaptive) could be removed in the process.
- Running utility software that changes the drive's firmware or bad sector table might cause permanent corruption of the data, and you should avoid it.
- Don't try this at home. "Home remedies" belong to the era where experts were not readily available to help. If you really want the data, get it to a specialist.

The first data recovery attempt has the greatest chance of extracting the data from a damaged hard drive. E-man Data Recovery is a data recovery firm in Snohomish, Washington. We are the end experts - we don't send your drive to a third party. Our specialists are on site, available to answer any questions you might have. We are equipped with a clean room environment and the most advanced data recovery tools available.

Our process is simple: we conduct an advanced diagnostic on the hard drive, let you know what the problem the drive has, and if a recovery is possible, we give you a firm estimate on the cost. Aside from the initial diagnostic fee, unlike other data recovery companies, we don't charge you if the data turns out to be unrecoverable.

Our specialists have successfully recovered data for individuals, small and large businesses, municipalities and government agencies. We have an extensive referral program and partner with many local computer repair shops. No job is too small or too difficult for us to handle. Visit or site at www.EmanDataRecovery.com or give us a call at 877-247-5991. If your lost data is important, leave the data recovery to us.

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