External HDD LaCie Brick Data Recovery Details

External hard drives fail and the LaCie Brick is no exception to this.

Data Recovery from external hard disk's usually requires us to open the external casing and remove the internal hard drive for testing. Once we have tested the drive we can then use a data recovery solution to recover the data.

Another issue for External hard drives is damage to components on the PCB board. External Hard Drives are vunerable to overheating and power surges which can lead to a burned out motor or blowing a controller chip on the logic board. If the micro chips on the PCB burn out you would smell smoke in the air. On next boot your External hard disk will probably not even spin up at all! Your External drive can get recognised and loads onto your system, but you cannot see it when you browse your computer. File system might be recognised as raw or not formatted. We have a recovery solution to recover the data.

The last regular External hard drive issue applies also to all other hard drive makes and models, the problem is called bad sectors. After some period of time the platters were the data is located starts to degrade and bad sectors appear. Whenever the hard drive attempts to read bad sectors it could start freezing, scratching, ticking and sometimes loud clicking. This leads to further damage to the surface and causes more data loss. As soon as you start experiencing such symptoms while reading important files, stop the drive immediately and consider sending it to a data recovery company like ourselves for a free diagnostic. Any further attempts to read the External drive would just add up to the problems and make more data unrecoverable. In our Data Recovery Lab we use expensive imaging tools that are capable of force reading bad sectors from External Hard Disks. This is usually the only way to effectively retrieve data from these Drives.

If you experience any of the symptoms described above with your External HDD LaCie Brick please contact us on +44 (0) 2890 961976 for more details.

If you hear your External HDD LaCie Brick hard drive making clicks are whirring noises please contact us for a quote.