A client from the East Midlands contacted data recovery England for professional services to recover a faulty Toshiba hard drive. This damaged disk was shipped for data recovery via the uniquely offered free collection service provided.
Here is the case study of Hitachi HTS726060M9AT00:
The client said the laptop was in the car and got knocked by a passenger whilst in operation, this subsequently damaged the internal hard drive and resulted in a need for data recovery services to be undertaken on the disk.
Diagnosis of Hitachi HTS726060M9AT00:
The head stack assembly became parked on the platter, commonly known as a head crash. An internal repair of the drive is required in a cleanroom, this is not achieveable for a home user.
Spec of this Hitachi HTS726060M9AT00 laptop hard disk drive:
60GB IDE Laptop hard drive
Manufactured February 2006
7200RPM
8MB buffer
115g weight
Operating temp: 5 - 55 °C
What was the outcome?
You will be pleased to hear that all the requested data was successfully recovered from the disk, it comprises of 39GB of choir music files which the user spent many years comprising.