Tag: Hard Drive

Knowledgebase

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Common Hard Drive Problems: A Clear Guide to Symptoms & Recovery

Hard drives store critical digital information. Both traditional spinning drives (HDDs) and newer Solid State Drives (SSDs) are susceptible to…

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By Stephen Ferrick
April 16, 2025
Knowledgebase

7 min read

Fire Damaged Hard Drive? Critical Steps to Take Immediately

Experiencing a fire is a devastating event, often raising concerns about digital data on affected hard drives. Devices exposed to…

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By Stephen Ferrick
April 15, 2025
Knowledgebase

7 min read

Hard Drive Making Grinding Noise? Urgent Steps for Critical Failure

Hearing your hard drive making grinding noise is a critical indicator of severe internal damage. Unlike routine operational sounds or…

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By Stephen Ferrick
April 15, 2025
Knowledgebase

7 min read

Accidentally Deleted Files? How to Recover Deleted Files from Your Hard Drive

Accidentally deleting important files from a hard drive, or formatting a partition unintentionally, is a common and stressful situation. Whether…

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By Stephen Ferrick
April 14, 2025
Knowledgebase

5 min read

Full Recovery of a Failed Seagate FireCuda HDD for a Photo Studio

Professional photographers depend on fast, reliable, high-capacity storage to manage large RAW files, edited image versions, and organized catalogs. The…

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By Stephen Ferrick
October 16, 2024
Case Study

4 min read

Recovering Critical Design Data from a Toshiba X300 HDD

The Toshiba X300 HDD is a high-performance internal hard drive widely chosen by professionals in creative industries. With its large…

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By Stephen Ferrick
October 16, 2024
Case Study

3 min read

Case Study: Recovering Data from a Beeping WD Caviar Green External Hard Drive

At PITS Data Recovery, we recently assisted a client with a serious data loss scenario. Their Western Digital (WD) Caviar…

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By Stephen Ferrick
October 16, 2024
Knowledgebase

7 min read

Laptop Hard Drive Recovery: Get Your Data Back From Failed HDDs

Laptops offer portability, but their internal hard disk drives (HDDs) can be susceptible to failure due to mobile use and…

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By Stephen Ferrick
October 16, 2024
Case Study

3 min read

Recovering Data from Unrecognized Seagate IronWolf 4TB Drive

Dealing with an unrecognized Seagate IronWolf drive can be a frustrating experience, especially when it contains important data. This issue…

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By Stephen Ferrick
October 16, 2024
Case Study

4 min read

Samsung Hard Drive Data Recovery: A 98% Success Story from Our Lab

When a Samsung HD501LJ 500GB hard drive suddenly stopped working, one of our clients feared years of valuable data were…

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By Stephen Ferrick
October 16, 2024
Knowledgebase

6 min read

WD External Hard Drive Not Showing Up? (Not Detected/Working) – Complete Guide

When a WD external hard drive fails to appear on your Mac or PC, it prevents access to stored data….

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By Stephen Ferrick
October 16, 2024
Case Study

3 min read

Restoring Family Photos from Apple Time Capsule

The Apple Time Capsule, a single-disc NAS combined with a wireless router (AirPort Extreme), was produced from 2008 to 2018….

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By Stephen Ferrick
October 16, 2024