There is a myth circulating on the Internet that you can create your own clean room for data recovery by running hot water in your bathroom at home. Supposedly, the steam picks up the dust and particles, and makes them stick to the walls. Even if this worked perfectly, it would only filter the very largest particles. If creating a clean room was this easy, data recovery companies would not spend thousands of dollars to have professional clean rooms built to recover data. The advanced technology of the clean room is necessary to allow a an IT support team to filter out the smallest of particles and debris to protect your hard drive.
When you freeze a failing hard drive, you are further degrading your data and decreasing yourchances of recovery. Freezing causes condensation inside the disk, which will ultimately render it useless and make data recovery impossible. Though retraction due to low temperatures may briefly make your data readable again, it will ultimately destroy your hard drive and make the difficult business of data recovery even more taxing, when you finally choose IT support to assist you.
If other components, such as the motor, the heads, or the head assembly driver have shorted out, hooking up a new circuit board may simply blow the new board out. With circuit boards now being manufactured all over the world and drives gaining intelligence, it is also becoming more and more difficult to even match a new circuit board to a hard drive. In many cases, a board will need to have been manufactured for the same OEM in the same week or month for the components to work together.
Some believe that simply tapping the hard drive upon reboot will lead to a recovery. This method is particularly dangerous if you have important data, as the repeated tapping can cause pieces of the heads to break off inside and stratch the surface of the disk where the data is stored.
Data recovery software can sometimes work, when there is a logic problem with the disk.However, when the disk has a physical problem, another sweep of the bad disk can make data recovery even more difficult, causing some circuits to stop working during the automatic recovery. This should only be attempted when you know the cause of the disk failure.
Most repaired hard drives have short life-spans and are not reliable for storing data anymore. It is much better to recover your data and replace your hard drive as soon as possible before another failure occurs. Some professionals who announce they "repair" hard drives basically change the logic board and run a program that hides the bad hard drive sectors. They then give you the refurbished hard drive and tell you it's "fixed".
Data recovery services at Northwest Computer Support are not a myth. We have helped companies and individuals recover everything from important business data to treasured family photos. We are able to recover data from all operating systems, and data damaged by either physical or logical corruption.
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