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Apple MacBook Data Recovery

East Coast Data Recovery are a recommended company and one of the few local companies that are able to offer Apple MacBook Data Recovery and from Apple storage devices. We can recover from MacBook Pro, MacBook, iMac, External HDDs, SSDs, including the latest models with integrated storage, T2 and Fusion Drives. Check out our latest […]

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My Hard Drive is Clicking — Don’t Panic. Here’s What to Do.

That clicking sound from your hard drive is alarming — and rightly so. It usually means something has gone wrong internally. But before you panic, the good news is that in most cases, a clicking drive can be successfully recovered — if you act carefully. What causes a hard drive to click? Clicking almost always […]

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Data recovery from Apple or PC SSD Drives. M.2 SATA SSD or M.2 PCIe NVMe SSDs

Advanced Data Recovery from damaged or faulty Apple and PC SSDs including SATA SSDs, PCIe SSDs, NVMe SSDs.

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Damaged G-Drive – Western Digital “Spyglass” USB Drive

Customer dropped Western Digital made G-Drive onto hard wood floor. Data recovery was possible but on only 8 of the 10 reading surfaces / heads. Using special Head swap tools we were able to swap out the heads from a donor to allow us to read the remaining 2 surfaces. We managed to get over […]

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Transcend Tough Drive on the outside, problematic Seagate Slim on the inside

Interesting Case we had recently. The customer got in touch by email and asked a friend to bring it in from the Scottish Borders as they were coming to Edinburgh. The client informed us that the drive hadn’t been dropped, so given it was a ‘tough drive’, we were curious to know what happened? On […]

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More Recent jobs – WD Passport Drives

We seem to be getting quite a few WD Passport drives in recently.  These drives are pretty common, but most people don’t realise they are all the self encrypting type which means specialist hardware is needed to recover from them typically. Our advanced PC3000 system allowed us to recover from all 3 of these cases. […]

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Recovery from Encrypted WD Passport Drive

We received a few days ago a Western Digital (WD) Passport drive in for recovery where the customer had forgotten the unlock password. Although it is a very common drive and we see quite a few of them in for recovery, not many people realise that these drives actually have a self-encrypting feature that means […]

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Data Recovery on Seagate NAS

      Recently we recovered data from a customer’s Seagate NAS drive.   The NAS drive is basically a desktop drive inside a casing which then allows it to be connected to a Network.   Once extracted. the drive which contained backups of photos and emails was analyzed by our PC3000 system which identified […]

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Fire Damaged Drives – keep your backup’s recent and safely separate

A few weeks ago we received a couple of drives that were in a fire.  Luckily there was no one hurt, but the laptop had basically melted due to the ferocity of the fire.  The laptop, or what was left of it, arrived at our shop in a bin bag, still wet from the water […]

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