Desktop Data Recovery

Desktop Hard Disk Disk Data Recovery Services & Information

Data Recovery has been performing Data Recovery on desktop hard disk drives for over 28 years. We have recovered data from just about every type of hard disk drive ever produced. We started back in 1980 recovering data from a 10MB MFM Tandon Tm502 that was attached to a Radio Shack Model one. Today we routinely recover data from all desktop hard drives ranging in size from 10MB to 1TB. This includes IDE, SATA, SCSI, SAS, ESDI and MFM hard drives.

WHY US?

Everyone faces a data loss situation at one time or another. When it happens, you can count on ITS - Data Recovery to solve the problem and get your data back quick. When you call on us to successfully recover your data, you can be rest assured that we will get it right the first time. Our ability to recover data from desktop hard drives far surpasses most data recovery companies. The reason? We've been around since 1980 and have seen it all. Our accumulated knowledge base of technical information and vast inventory of hard drives gives our engineers a great advantage in completing a successful data recovery. O and did we mention price yet?

Practical Information on Hard Disk Drives

When you buy a computer you never even think about losing the data until it is too late. Today's hard disk drives are prone to failure for a number of reasons. Every year, hard drives increase in capacity, using smaller and fewer parts. Today's average hard drive spins at 75 mph. and the R/W heads are flying above the media at a distance of about 3 nanometers. What's this like? Like a 747 airplane flying 4 inches from the ground! The bottom line is that hard drives are very sensitive hardware/software devices that have a high rate of failure therefore it is imperative to back up your data.

Who Makes the Best Desktop Hard Disk Drive ?

All hard drives are prone to failure but from a data recovery stand point, some drives are better than others. In our experience, we have found that Seagate Drives generally have the highest success rate on data recovery. The high capacity drives tend to have the spindle motor go bad. They do however have a 5 year warranty. Western Digital drives are a popular low cost alternative but we have found over the years that some older models have a high rate of servo failure resulting in data loss.
The new high capacity Hitachi Drives perform extremely well but not the older models they acquired from IBM. Maxtor has good drives (not the low profile ones they inherited from Quantum) and they have been acquired by Seagate. 

If you buy an external USB or Firewire hard drive you may not know who's drive is inside the case unless you buy an external drive from Seagate, Maxtor or Western Digital. Just make sure to use it for backup purposes.

Avoid RAID 0 configurations that is common from companies like LACIE because if one drive is toast (has a severe head crash) then the data may not be recoverable since it is striped across two drives. More on that on our RAID page.

Tips for Failed Hard Disk Drives:
Never remove the cover from a hard disk drive. It should be opened only in a class 100 clean room by a "Date Recovery Specialist". In fact many drives will lose the servo just by removing the cover. One example is the IBM Deskstar Drive (A.K.A. - Deathstar) It can't even be opened in a clean room so if the heads go bad usually it is done.
In addition, do not ever...
- Place the drive in a freezer. This rarely helps and can cause more damage.
- Attempt to recover data with commonly available software.
- Continue powering up a drive you believe has been damaged.