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Cleanroom

A cleanroom is an essential facility for any reputable data recovery specialist because of the close tolerance mechanisms found inside storage media.

They are used in situations where environmental variables such as temperature, humidity, airborne contaminates etc. can adversely affect the critical repair of sensitive electronic components.

The cleanroom is a perfectly sealed environment designed to prevent migration of contaminants onto the highly sensitive media. State of the art filtration systems and air management equipment creates positive air pressure inside the chamber to provide the highest level of protection against potential contamination.

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The reasons of a Hard Disk Clicking Sound

Head Crash This is a physical damage of the disk platter when the head of a hard disk scratches the surface of the disk. This is the result of the grinding sound you hear when this occurs. Firstly, turn off your computer and do not attempt to power it up. Prolong power to the hard disk will only cause it more harm and causing further complications. Consult a data recovery firm immediately and avoid dismantling the disk to repair the problem yourself. Operating without the correct tools and a lab environment can result in further extensive damage that complicates the data recovery process.
Bad Sectors Typically bad sectors are physical damage of a span of disk area. When the head make several attempts to read from the same area of disk multiple times but fails, it generates the clicking sound. This can also occur when the head is unable to calibrate with the media servo tracks due to the gradual weakening of the magnetic domains on the platter that causes the drive to reset continuously. Perform a disk surface scan if the condition of the hard disk is not too bad. This helps to mark all bad sectors and prevent your system from writing new data on the marked sectors of the disk.

Mechanical Faults This is a physical damage and these sounds can be caused by a malfunctioning spindle, Read Write head or loose components. Backup your data immediately if you are still able to access data on the disk. Your disk is near the end of its life and will stop functioning anytime. If your disk stops spinning after a period of clicking sound, you may wish to send your disk to a reputable data recovery firm to recover your data.

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To prevent data loss

The best prevention is to always remember to back-up your data!

Accidents may happen: coffee is spilled on your CD or Zip drive, a CD falls on the floor and gets scratched, the hard drive does not want to spin after being unused during 2 humid summer months, … Anything may happen, but you should not worry if your most valuable data is stored separately in a safe place.

Another thing to remember is to use anti-virus software routinely, especially if you download from the Internet! Your data could be as easily corrupted by a computer virus as by any natural disaster. To protect your data from the newest viruses, update your antivirus program as often as possible.

Avoid electro-static discharge (ESD) during installation of the drives and later handling. Do not touch electric contacts on the controller board with your bare hands. When handling the drives, try to keep your other hand on a metal part of your PC, which will serve as a “ground”.

Keep your storage systems clean!
Particulate contamination is a clear and present danger for all types of storage media since is causes mechanical damage which is rarely recoverable and can crash the entire storage device!

Keep your data cool!
Storage systems, especially magnetic media, may suffer from the so-called ‘thermal decay’ of magnetic information. In other words, your magnetic domains will lose their magnetization much faster at higher temperatures, and your bits of information will disappear… Magnetic drives are designed to operate in conditions comfortable for humans. Therefore, there is no danger in keeping your drives at 40 (104F) and even 50C (122F). But, exceeding this temperature by much can be harmful.

Prevent impacts on your storage device, especially when it is running! For example, don’t move your desktop when the power is on! All commercial storage systems are designed to withstand significant shock and vibration, but there is always a chance that your drive may be damaged by an impact.

Keep away your magnetic storage from strong magnetic fields!

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My disk presented problems. What should I do?

Turn off the computer.
Call professional data company to make a more precise evaluation and to certify that the problem is really loss of data.

Remove the media (hard disk) from the computer carefully.

Do not let any person without specialization in this area open your hard disk or execute programs that promise to recover your data.

Do not reinstall the operating system or any other kind of program.

Avoid turning on and turning off the computer repetitive times to try to make the hard disk work, because this could damage it even more and make the recovery of data impossible.

If you feel or sense strange noises in your hard disk don’t even try to turn it on again.

Avoid using any utilities program to reconstruct the FAT tables and partitions. These programs could make the recovery work even more difficult and sometimes impossible.

If it was necessary, we could tell you if the program you are trying to use could or not have an influence with the data recovery.

Before sending your media to a professional data recovery company, make sure that it will really need the information that is within it.

Send your media to a specialized company in data recovery.

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Is there unrecoverable data?

Unfortunately in some cases is not possible to recover the data. Even with the most modern equipment, very extensive damages in the physical structure or the media logic can stop the recovery. In some cases, procedures or wrong attempts of recovery not executed by specialized companies or professionals, they result in the definitive loss of the data. Nowadays there is not any software market for media data recovery with any type of physical problems. Only after a detailed analysis it is possible to arrive to a necessary diagnosis, in which is defined the data that will or not be able to be recovered.

Observation: Even files that were recovered by other so called specialized companies, but presented problems for being in some way corrupted, they can still be reconstructed. If this is your case, although it is something more difficult to be done, we accept the challenge of trying to reconstruct your files.


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In which situations it is possible to recover the data?

It is possible to recover data in any one of the situations mentioned in the previous topic. Through owned technologies (especially projected for this specialty) and acquired specialized training in American laboratories, Digital Recovery offers real chances of data recovery. Through international partnerships we stay updated with what exists as far as the most modern in the world in this area. Being like this, which ever the media is (hard disk, diskette, zip disk, CD’s etc) or the used operating system (Windows 9X/ME/NT/2000/XP, Novell, Linux/Unix, Mac THE etc) we have the solution for your problem of loss of data. 

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Why Data Recovery is Necessary

If you have lost files on a desktop computer or a laptop, data recovery may be your only option in terms of retrieving all of the information lost on your system. Unless you are an expert as such things and have the right equipment, you probably have to leave it to the experts. As mentioned earlier, the software applications that handle various recovery methods are not always equipped to handle the hefty job ahead of you. Instead of running the risk of creating more damage and running programs that you are unfamiliar with, you should consider contacting a data recovery expert to assist you with your urgent computer issues.How are files on a computer lost in the first place? First, human error is the biggest cause of computer issues. Next in line to human error, are all of the dangerous computer viruses, Trojans, worms, and spyware that can clog up a computer system and in some cases, make the computer not work at all. Of course, there are preventive measures that a computer user can take in order to protect their computer systems; antivirus software protection and spyware removal tools are highly recommended to every computer user. Yet, it is a fact, that some viruses are devised so that they can get around the use an antivirus application. In fact, there are viruses that have been created that download their own updates every time the computer user signs on to the Internet. Such viruses are not only cleverly installed they are equally difficult to remove. Hence, data recovery measures become necessary.

Alternatively, sometimes computers are damaged during floods, fires, and other natural disasters. In some instances, it may be possible to retrieve some or all of the lost data if the computer is sent to an expert in data recovery. Consequently, a major loss of property due to unforeseen acts of God, does not have to mean that the computer owner has to also be stressed out over lost computer files and information.

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What is Data Recovery?

Data Recovery specialists work toward retrieving “lost data” on computer hard drives. The keyword in the latter statement is “lost”; no data is really lost on a hard drive, in fact, at least 85 percent of the time it is merely irretrievable. In addition, data recovery can not only be conducted on computer hard drives, but data recovery attempts are often successful on magnetic tapes and magnetic discs. As a final point, the most popular type of data recovery can be identified in the various software applications that help computer users restore their computers in the event of an ever-fatal computer crash.Data recovery specialists are armed with advanced knowledge and their services far surpass that of software applications. The difficulty with many software applications is that the user is often an amateur at data recovery and is therefore attempting to fix a problem that he or she cannot necessarily outright identify. The user finds out rather quickly that data recovery is more than just rebooting the hard drive or reinstalling a program. In essence, by using software data recovery programs an inexperienced computer user may merely be grasping at straws as he or she struggles to repair the computer damage he or she is faced with. What is worse is that, more often than not, the computer user is adding such applications to a computer that is already damaged. Consequently, the software applications that are meant to repair the computer may not install correctly or they may not repair the problem at all – in fact, some could make data recovery even more difficult.

If your computer files are of extreme importance to you, it is time to call in the specialists. Data Recovery experts are far more successful at retrieving that which is seemingly irretrievable like lost or accidentally deleted files. In fact, less than fifteen percent of all of the computers handled by data recovery specialists are deemed as non-restorable.

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Data Recovery – Overview

Many casual computer users never give much thought to or even know about data recovery, but Imagine that you are an author writing a book, a novel, and that you have saved all of the chapters of the book on your computer. Now imagine that you are near completion of the greatest novel of your life and your publisher is waiting for the manuscript when something goes haywire and all of the files on your system unexplainably disappear! Not necessarily a pretty image, but it’s something that happens all too frequently, and it is at just that time you may wish to know something about data recovery. Sometimes the problem is simple—resetting the computer system to an earlier period; defragmenting the computer; and, in some instances, utilizing the scan disk option on a computer will be enough to get the computer operating properly again—but in some instances the problem is far worse. What are some of the typical causes for the loss of files on a computer? Viruses, worms, Trojans, power failure, corruption of data, and even acts of God can cause people to lose files on their computer—files that may be extremely vital, especially if the computer user needs the files for proficient business operations.When a computer user loses all of the files and data on their computer due to a technological issue or to some sort of disaster, it may become necessary to hire a company that handles data recovery. Data recovery specialists can attempt to retrieve the lost information from the hard drive of the computer. Data recovery specialists have the expertise to get the job done and swiftly—this ensures the necessary files are accessible to the computer user in the fastest time possible. Though actual physical damage to the computer’s hard drive may mean that complete recovery of the data may not be possible, many people are surprised at how much data recovery specialists can do, even in the most difficult of conditions.

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How to Fix An iPod?

Being an iPod owner is a wonderful thing! It is no wonder that they are the most popular MP3 players on the market.

You can’t even walk down a busy street without seeing iPod headphones in someone’s ear.

Even though so many people own iPods, it can still be hard to operate them sometimes. Sure they have an easy interface, but it can certainly be helpful to have an online iPod manual to help you out.

The manual that comes with your iPod is ok, but you might occasionally need more help. This site has a mission to provide you with the very best in iPod information so that you don’t have to get frustrated.

If you’re looking for iPod troubleshooting, reviews, accessories information, hacks, and more you’ve come to the right place. Make sure you bookmark this page because you’ll never know when you need the information.

In addition to iPod help, you’ll find fun things as well. Did you know that you can play games on your iPod? It’s true! It’s time to stretch your iPod’s legs and get the most out of your purchase.

There are so many things you can do with your iPod that you’ll fall in love with it all over again. It’s too easy to just rely on it for your music listening needs.

It’s best to really get to know your iPod to get the most out of it. Read books, listen to movies, watch TV shows, and play games on your iPod. This iPod manual will help to get you there.

Why spend a lot of money on other entertainment avenues? You can truly do it all on your iPod. If you don’t have an iPod yet, you’ll definitely want to get one. You can even buy a refurbished iPod that will help to save you money and get you in the game fast.

Sure, your iPod comes with a manual already. However, it doesn’t cover nearly enough information to let you use your iPod to the max.

If you’re having trouble using your iPod, or think that you’re machine is broken, there are many things you can do to fix the problem in a few simple steps.

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