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 […]
Tag: User Guide to Data Recovery
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 […]