More about Phones...

Continuing on from a previous blog post of mine (http://techgeek.posthaven.com/phone-not-responsive-lost-data), I have been in touch with more people who are also having phone problems. Rather than bore you with the in's and out's of phone data recovery, I've listed their enquiries. I've not looked at the cases personally, but it should be possible to recover their information in all cases. By the way, if you're wondering what data recovery is all about, have a look at this site: http://www.recover-deleted-data.co.uk/

I would like a data extraction from my iphone 6,the screen is smashed,and I have forgot my pin number ,i did not unfortunately back up the pictures and important messages,contacts etc. How much will this cost to do ?

My son has broken his iphone 6 – screen broken and can not charge at all. He did not back it up at all. Is it possible to get the photos off the phone?

Unfortunately deleted a lot of pictures from my samsung s6 edge phone. Can provide pictures. Mobile snapped by ex. Would like as much data as possible retrieved. Texts, photos etc. Looking for price, timescales etc

Had trouble trasnferring data to SD card. Laptop loaded in windows but didnt detect the hard drive. Plugged in to another source – device ended up crashing. Plugged bag in to laptop – laptop no longer loads beyond black screen

Could you recover data (photos/videos) from an iPhone 6s? Had to have screen replaced and we were not told this would erase all data. Have connected to iTunes but no back up unfortunately. Its like a brand new phone

I have a Samsung S6 mobile phone that will not switch on at all. I accidentally dropped it a couple of months ago, which cracked the screen & the back of the phone. It did work up until yesterday. I have tried re-booting it & connecting it to a computer. The Blue indiactor light at the top of the phone is on / blinking. The phone screen is totally black & un-responsive. I wondered if you think you'd be able to recover the photos I have stored in the phones hard drive?

I have a water damaged iPhone 4s. The phone itself is worthless but I have over a thousand photos plus videos of my children on it I'm desperate to recover. The phone no longer even turns on. Do you think you could help? If so what would it cost all in, absolute total please?

Until next time, Barry.

Sound Familiar?

If any of the following instances sound familiar, you've got a broken hard drive. Come and see me if you want the data pulled from it.

  • Hard disk has crashed, it has been enclosed in a 2.5" external ide hard disk enclosure. When connected via usb to pc drive not accessible. Need all excel,word and pdf files. Also had two companies set up on sage software which had not been backed up in a while, need access to this information also
  • I have a Western Digital My Passport 500gb ext drive that is making a clicking sound after receiving a slight knock. Windows will not recognise the drive, and I receive a 'fatal' error when trying to access it via Disk Management. I need as many of the files as possible recovered from the drive.
  • MacBook Air, flash storage can't find the hard drive. Apple said SSD needs a firmware update but in order to do that it needs to erase all the data, so I need a backup first or I lose everything (and I don't have a backup)
  • The hard drive has been used for long time, when plugged up the light comes on, but there is no response, the drive does not move, usually you can hear it whine when running. The remote drive is a Freedom 500GB, would you please give me an price for extracting the data, I do not wish to have the drive repaired, I can supply a brand new remote drive for the data to be down loaded to.
  • My 4tb harddrive has stopped working. ATA /SATA password lost
  • Was working perfectly this morning and has completely stopped connecting to my laptop. Work IT guy says that it can be recovered but won't work when plugged in at the moment. I am a teacher and need this sorted immediately. Please let me know the timeline and cost.
  • I have a WD external hard disk and it is not getting detected on any computer that's why I can't access any of my data in it.
  • I have a 5tb Seagate Hard Drive which unfortunatelly fell from the desk on a carpet. When connected to the laptop it shows as a device (I can eject it) but it doesn't actually appear anywhere. I'm interested to know how much it would cost to get it either fixed or have the data recovered.
  • Device not getting detected. Recurring clicking sound, but the platter sounds like it is spinning. Possibly the heads are moving back and forth.

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Dropped phone and Drives not showing up

A mixture of enquiries in this post for you to enjoy!

Hard drive: It was dropped, now when connected to the computer it doesn't show up.Possibly, mechanical failure. Brand WD elements. Want to fix it ASAP if possible, if not just recover the data.

I have a <a href="https://www.wdc.com/products/portable-storage/wd-elements-portable.html">WD portable HDD</a>. I dropped it & now cannot access any information.
I would like to retrieve my data onto a newly purchased portable solid state hard drive.
How much is this likely to cost?

I dropped my phone on Saturday night. The screen did not shatter but it is clearly damaged. Since then the phone has shown no signs of life at all, including when I plug it in to a charger. I left it plugged in overnight but it still shows no signs of life. I desperately need to access my voice memo files. I'm a journalist and record interviews using my iPhone and I have two important interviews on there from last week. Any help much appreciated.

An external HDD which I sue for backing up and archiving my school's files has stopped working. Machine light comes on but information can not be read from the hdd. Could I please have a quote to retrieve data.

I'm afraid that my WD my book has a mechanic problem and that's why I'm unable to access to my film files.

Are you able to recover/repair corrupt excel file?

It's a seagate 1tb external hard drive, it fell off the bed whilst using it and landed on carpet but now doesn't work. There is a little faint tapping noise for a bit but the blue light on the case doesn't come on.

<a href="https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-hardware/hard-drive-self-monitoring-system-has-reported/88ca133d-a2c8-4059-bed0-ed59a38f5c69">megatrends "self monitoring system</a> has reported a parameter has exceeded its normal operaing range etc etc"

My sister-in-law has a <a href="http://www.freecom.com/product/tough-drive-hdd-500gb-56058/">Freecom 500GB HD</a> with a lifetime of family photos on it. The drive is 'ticking". Of course they're not backed up and she's worried that she's lost these photos. Can you please send a quote as to the cost of recovering the data off this drive.


Recover Data From Phones

Here's the latest rundown of the top 5 phone problems requiring data recovery in the UK. Having experienced data loss from phones myself I recommend you contact Data Clinic's phone recovery service to advice and assistance.

My client have TESCO HUDEL 2 tablet and he lost all his data..like he did factory reset, he need all the photo and videos, please let me know if is possible and how much with time frame pls..

Purchased a Cubot rainbow mobile phone at xmas as a present for a parent wo has forgotten the password and gmail account linked to phone. Did a hard reset but google wants to verify but can not because SIM card has been deactivated and she can not remeber email address. Would like to revert phone back so I can set it up properly

I have a mobile phone It is a Samsung s6 and was unfortunately water damaged I sent it to a company who said they can mend water damaged phones but unfortunately the mother board had been damaged by the water, is there anyway you able to remove the harddrive from the phone and recover all my photos from the device and put them onto a disc or anything.

My Samsung Galaxy S4 Mobile does not boot up and remains stuck on the logo screen. I want to recover the data such as photos, videos etc. before a factory reset.

Broken iPhone and Samsung phones.data recovery,photos etc I'm wondering if you can help me. I've lost all my photos from my phone's (Lenovo A916) internal memory. I don't know how it happened. Please let me know if recovery of them is possible. I didn't have any back up. Looking forward to hear from you

On my mobile I have an app called xender, which I used to transfer a photo to my friends phone. I deleted the photo around the same time that I had sent it which was in February 2016. The xender app shows that I have sent the photo but I cannot click on it to see it. Is there a way I can recover the photo or is it unrecoverable because I have taken countless other photos since that time.

I have a Sony Z3 and I have some pictures that have gone missing, I've used a program on the computer and I can see the files are there but I'm not able to retrieve them. Would you be able to do this? What would the cost be? Thank you.