A widespread firmware problem has recently been causing ever increasing numbers of hard drives to become terminally inoperable on power up. This issue affects the following drive series: (for list of specific model numbers affected, see end of report):

·        Seagate 7200.11

·        Seagate ES2

·        Maxtor DiamondMax 22

The problem affects drives with capacities of 500Gb, 750Gb, 1Tb or 1.5Tb. Drives that suffer this failure either ‘hang’ in a ‘busy’ state, have their total capacity detected as 0 LBA or may report a ‘SMART’ failure.

If you are planning to sell, give away or just get rid of your old hard disk, you wouldn’t want anyone to see what was stored on your hard disk earlier. You would not want anybody to access your personal files and impair your security.

You may spend a lot of time deleting sensitive files and then decide to format your old hard disk and get rid of the data. This is just not enough. Even after deletion and formatting, data can be retrieved from your old hard disk by anyone who knows about data recovery.

When you delete a file, only the address of the file is deleted. The data on the file continues to exist on the hard disk. What formatting a drive does is that it removes the boot records and leaves your data on the drive. The Operating System may display that the disk is empty because it cannot find the links to the files, but they are there all the same.

Have you ever had the stupidity to erase the wrong file in a moment of madness? Who has not, through negligence or oversight, forgot to save your photos before you format your hard drive? If hardware failures can affect hard disks, they are indeed human errors which are the major source of lost files. This article is therefore directed to all those who have ever lost a file without being able to retrieve it.

Obviously, if your hard drive has a fall of 5 storeys or more simply it is not recognized in BIOS, reading this just will not be very useful. You must instead refer you to professionals who checked your storage unit in clean rooms for this purpose. But if you just delete the pictures that you swore to have engraved the data recovery Pune software solutions available to you, and we’ll present them.

To begin, we will explain why it is possible to recover files even after formatting or deleting the trash. We will provide you also some tips to maximize your chances of recovering data in good condition. Finally, we conclude by testing several programs to assess their skills against a recovery process, from the simple to the complex.