With LAPTOPS, please do the following:
- Do NOT attempt to remove the hard drive yourself, unless the drive has been designed to be removed by simply sliding it out of the casing
- Handle the hard disk drive with EXTRA CARE. They are easily damaged
- Do NOT shake the hard disk, and be sure not to apply pressure to the hard drive casing.
- If at all possible, remove the hard drive from the computer. Get expert help if necessary.
- Take extra care when packaging a laptop drive for shipping!
- Fill out a request form and include a copy of it in the package with your hard drive.
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- Immediately turn off the computer if the disk/drive is clicking, grinding or has stopped spinning
- Protect your drive from static charges by placing it in an anti-static bag.
- Fill in the online data recovery contact/request form and include the following information:
- - Is the hard drive clicking, grinding, or has it stopped spinning?
- - Did the computer crash, or did the server go off-line?
- - Was the computer dropped, or hit by a power surge?
- - Were you victim to a computer virus or worm?
- - Do you need to recover a deleted file?
- - Was the hard drive accidentally reformatted?
- - Was a partition deleted or corrupted?
- - Are you getting any computer messages? Saying the drive is corrupt or unreadable? What are these messages?
- - Are you being asked by the system to format or initialise the hard drive?
- - Have you recently installed a new piece of hardware, programme, patch or update?
- Contact us immediately
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