Mar 03 2008
Data Recovery from IBM Laptop
X Series is the most popular series of laptops developed by IBM. These laptops have unique configuration with high speed process and memory. These are less prone to failure as their data storage technology on hard drive is quite different. These systems use Shock-Mounted Hard Drives.
These hard drives come with special metal covers and the platters of the hard drive are highly reflective. Because of the metal cover on the drive these are shock proof and there are less chances of short circuit. These drives have a screwdriver bit that is placed into one of six screws that clamp the stack of platters and spacers. In the center, below the screws and clamping plate, is the motor that spins the platters.
The head structure of the drive is also very different. There is more space between platters and the head of the hard drive when the drive is not working. Since the drive is not in operation, the head is simply pressed against the disk by the suspension.
Though IBM laptop hard drives are less prone to failure, but there is no system that is 100% safe. Sometimes you may hear the some strange noises from your hard drive that may include clicking or tickling. These noise are generally comes when your hard drive is physically crashed or the head is crashed.
In these cases, you should quickly shutdown your system and shouldn’t restart it otherwise it may cause further damage to your hard drive. In case of head crash, your platter may damage completely and can cause permanent data loss. In these situations, your data become inaccessible and can’t be read in normal way.
So, to recover your data in these critical situations, you need for data recovery service to repair your damaged hard drive and recover data from it. Data recovery services are the special companies that have data recover labs to recover the lost data from physically damaged drive. These are specially designed labs that have a low level of environmental pollutants such as dust, airborne microbes, aerosol particles and chemical vapors. You should never open your hard drive in open environment. It may cause further damage because the platters of the drive are highly sensitive to dust.
There are several data recovery service provider companies. Stellar Information System Ltd. is a well known name among these companies. The company has first Class 100 (a standard defined for data recovery labs) Clean Room of Asia. The company has a team of expert and highly qualified data recovery technicians. Along with the data recovery service, Stellar also provides data recovery software to recover data that has been lost due to logical crash.
