A traffic organization based in Cambridge contacted the team in January 2011 regarding a failed Hitachi 2.5” laptop hard drive the user reported no user data access, our data recovery labs arranged to have the faulty disk couriered to our labs.
Here is the case study of the Hitachi HTS542516K9A300 hard drive:
The hard drive was the boot and data drive for the computer user and was an internal hard drive..
Diagnosis:
Lab engineers carefully diagnosed the hard drive as having bad sectors which had seriously compromised the logical integrity of the file system this stopped any access to the user under normal conditions the IT department tried to recover the data however soon realized that this was not possible our team successfully cloned the complete user data area and rebuilt the operating system which was Windows 7.
Spec of this Hitachi HTS542516K9A300 hard disk drive:
160 GB Maximum storage capacity
Manufactured July 2008
Interface SATA
Rotation speed 5400RPM
Transfer rate: 150MB/s
8MB cache
What was the outcome?
14GB of reports and other live traffic data was successfully recovered much of this data could not be reproduced again and was one off and priceless to the client further to this important email data was recovered the data was copied to a Seagate Expansion Portable 500GB hard drive.