WD My Passport Data Recovery
The WD My Passport drive is a portable storage that gives you the confidence and freedom to drive forward in life. With a stylish design that fits in the palm of your hand, there’s space to store, organize, and share your photos, videos, music, and documents. But what to do when it fails and you […]
Why my portable Toshiba drive is clicking?
There are three major reasons for a Toshiba hard drive to start clicking. Modern disk drives are complex devices and while most last three or more years eventually they do fail. Like others, Toshiba hard drives have seen great improvements in recent years achieving greater speeds and storage capacities. Today Toshiba hard drives come in […]
Western Digital Hard Drive Makes Clicking Noise
There are three major reasons for a Western Digital hard drive to start clicking. Modern disk drives are complex devices and while usually last three or more years they do fail at some point. Like others, Western Digital hard drives have seen great improvements in recent years achieving greater speeds and storage capacities. Today these […]
Dropped Portable Hard Drive
The most natural action after dropping an external hard drive or laptop, is to turn it on to see if it still works? If you are reading this post, there is a good chance that you had an external hard drive dropped and hit the floor, and after you powered it up it doesn’t work […]
My Seagate Drive is Clicking
Modern hard disk drives are complex devices and while usually last three or more years they do fail for one reason or another. Hard drives have seen great improvements in recent years achieving greater speeds and storage capacities. Today these are made in variety of shapes and sizes and for less money. Hard drives are […]
Engineers Explain USB Flash: XOR vs Encryption
We receive dozens of flash cases every week and our clients often ask us why is it so complicated to recover data from their flash device. Flash devices don’t store data like a hard drive, the controller (brain) of the flash device transforms data as it passes through it. Each transformation the flash drive makes […]
Password Protected Host Drive
Data storage device, a drive ( hard drive or NAND flash based one) by default can be accessed by any computer it is plugged into, so if a external hard drive or USB flash stores important data it should be encrypted and password protected. Data Analyzers places password on every host drive leaving our lab (unless specified otherwise). […]
Toshiba External Hard Drive is Beeping
Your Toshiba external hard drive is beeping and it does feel like it is not working? Often times portable drives suffer from shock after being dropped or accidentally bumped, many times while powered on and connected to the USB port. My Toshiba External Hard Drive is Beeping Toshiba external hard drive makes beeping noise when […]
External Western Digital Drive Makes Beeping Noise
Your Western Digital external hard drive is making beeping sounds? This may be very bad news! Often times portable drives suffer from shock after being dropped or accidentally bumped, many times while powered on and connected to the USB port. My WD Hard Drive is Beeping My Western Digital Passport Drive is broken, when I went […]
Seagate External Hard Drive Is Making Beeping Sounds
Your Seagate external hard drive is making beeping sounds and it does not feel like it is spinning at all? This may be very bad news! Often times portable drives suffer from shock after being dropped or accidentally shocked, many times while powered on and connected to a computer. My Seagate Hard Drive is Beeping I […]
