A client from Essex contacted Data Recovery England in January 2011 regarding a Hitachi hard disk drive which had failed on the user and needed expert hard disk recovery solutions.
Here is the case study of Hitachi HDT725050VLAT80:
Client phones the labs for advice on data retriveval for the disk that had failed, a telephone diagnosis assumed that the drive was suffering from internal failures and needed expert repair work in the cleanroom.
Diagnosis:
The diagnosis concluded that the head stack assembly of the disk had failed, this manifested itself as a clicking sound, known in the trade as the 'click of death' and a replacement of these parts in cleanroom conditions would be the only hope for data recovery for this doomed hard drive.
Spec of this Hitachi HDT725050VLAT80 Hard Disk Drive:
500GB SATA Desktop 3.5" hard disk drive
Manufactured March 2007
7200RPM
Transfer rate: 3GB/s
8MB buffer
What was the outcome?
After a head transplant was completed, a full recovery was achieved for the client, a total of 40GB of business files were extracted, all thanks to our Hitachi data recovery services which recovered this crucial data in 3 days.