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Real data recovery case studies
These are real jobs that came through our New Jersey lab by insured mail-in: the device, the symptom, where it shipped from, and how it ended. No composites, no stock stories. Every drive is different, so we never promise a percentage or a guarantee. What we can show is how these cases actually went.
- Hard drive from CA
Can a clicking hard drive be recovered?
- Device
- Clicking hard drive
- Symptom
- Clicking on power-up
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Hard drive from OH
My hard drive fell and is clicking. Is the data gone?
- Device
- Hard drive that fell and started clicking
- Symptom
- Clicking on power-up after a fall
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Hard drive from VA
Can data be recovered from an old iMac hard drive?
- Device
- 2007 iMac hard drive
- Symptom
- Clicking on power-up
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Hard drive
I dropped my hard drive and it will not spin up. Can it be saved?
- Device
- Dropped external hard drive
- Symptom
- Dropped, not spinning up
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Hard drive from AL
My external hard drive was dropped and is making noise. What now?
- Device
- External hard drive, dropped, making noise
- Symptom
- Dropped, unusual noise, not spinning normally
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Hard drive from TX
A hard drive just stopped working. Is recovery possible?
- Device
- Failed hard drive
- Symptom
- Drive stopped working
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Storage device from NJ
Can data survive water damage?
- Device
- Water-damaged storage device
- Symptom
- Water damage
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Phone
Can photos be recovered from a water-damaged iPhone?
- Device
- iPhone 4, water damage
- Symptom
- Water damage, phone dead
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Phone from MI
My phone fell in water and is dead. Are my photos gone?
- Device
- Smartphone dropped in a sink of water
- Symptom
- Water immersion, phone dead
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- RAID / NAS from GA
Can a failed RAID 1 array be recovered?
- Device
- RAID 1 array
- Symptom
- Array failure
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- RAID / NAS
A NAS volume failed. Can the files be recovered?
- Device
- NAS hard drives
- Symptom
- NAS volume failure
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Hard drive from NJ
Why is my WD My Passport clicking and can the data be recovered?
- Device
- WD My Passport external hard drive
- Symptom
- clicking noises
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Phone
Can data be recovered from an iPhone 8 Plus that won't boot?
- Device
- iPhone 8 Plus phone
- Symptom
- won't boot
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Phone from NJ
Can liquid damage data be recovered from an iPhone 11 Pro?
- Device
- iPhone 11 Pro phone
- Symptom
- liquid damage
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Hard drive
Can a physically damaged Sony laptop hard drive be recovered?
- Device
- Sony laptop hard drive
- Symptom
- physical damage
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Phone
Can iPhone 12 Pro Max phone data be recovered after liquid damage?
- Device
- iPhone 12 Pro Max phone
- Symptom
- liquid damage
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Hard drive from NJ
Why is my WD external hard drive not detected by my computer?
- Device
- WD external hard drive
- Symptom
- not detected by computer
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Phone from TX
Can data be recovered from a liquid damaged iPhone 7 Plus?
- Device
- iPhone 7 Plus phone
- Symptom
- liquid damage
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Hard drive from FL
Can a physically damaged Western Digital hard drive be recovered?
- Device
- Western Digital hard drive
- Symptom
- physical damage
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Phone from NJ
Can data be recovered from a physically damaged Samsung Galaxy phone?
- Device
- Samsung Galaxy phone
- Symptom
- physical damage
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Hard drive from MA
Can a Toshiba hard drive with a lost partition be recovered?
- Device
- Toshiba hard drive
- Symptom
- lost partition
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Phone from CA
Can data be recovered from a liquid damaged iPhone 12?
- Device
- iPhone 12 phone
- Symptom
- liquid damage
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Hard drive
Why is my Seagate external hard drive not detected?
- Device
- Seagate external hard drive
- Symptom
- not detected by computer
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Phone from CA
Can an iPhone with lost photos and videos be recovered?
- Device
- iPhone
- Symptom
- lost photos and videos
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Hard drive from NJ
Why won't my WD desktop hard drive boot?
- Device
- WD desktop hard drive
- Symptom
- won't boot
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Phone from UT
Can data be recovered from a Google Pixel phone that won't power on?
- Device
- Google Pixel phone
- Symptom
- won't power on
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Phone from NJ
Can an iPhone XS Max with liquid damage still be recovered?
- Device
- iPhone XS Max phone
- Symptom
- liquid damage
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Phone
Can data be recovered from an iPhone XS Max with liquid damage?
- Device
- iPhone XS Max phone
- Symptom
- liquid damage
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Hard drive from TX
Can a Samsung hard drive with file system corruption be recovered?
- Device
- Samsung hard drive
- Symptom
- file system corruption
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Phone from NY
Can data be recovered from an iPhone that won't power on?
- Device
- iPhone
- Symptom
- won't power on
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Phone from IL
Can data be recovered from a physically damaged iPhone 7?
- Device
- iPhone 7 phone
- Symptom
- physical damage
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Hard drive from CA
Why is my WD external hard drive clicking?
- Device
- WD external hard drive
- Symptom
- clicking noises
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Phone from NJ
Can data be recovered from an inaccessible iPhone XR?
- Device
- iPhone XR phone
- Symptom
- phone inaccessible
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Hard drive from CA
Can data be recovered from a physically damaged Seagate hard drive?
- Device
- Seagate hard drive
- Symptom
- physical damage
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Hard drive from TX
Can a physically damaged Seagate hard drive be recovered?
- Device
- Seagate hard drive
- Symptom
- physical damage
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Hard drive from MO
Can a Samsung external hard drive that won't boot be recovered?
- Device
- Samsung external hard drive
- Symptom
- won't boot
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Phone from MO
Can accidentally deleted files be recovered from my iPhone?
- Device
- iPhone
- Symptom
- accidentally deleted files
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Hard drive from GA
Why is my Seagate external hard drive beeping?
- Device
- Seagate external hard drive
- Symptom
- beeping drive
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Phone from NJ
Can data be recovered from an iPhone 13 Pro that won't boot?
- Device
- iPhone 13 Pro phone
- Symptom
- won't boot
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Hard drive
Why won't my Seagate external hard drive power on?
- Device
- Seagate external hard drive
- Symptom
- won't power on
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Phone
Can data be recovered from an inaccessible Google Pixel phone?
- Device
- Google Pixel phone
- Symptom
- phone inaccessible
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Hard drive from NY
Can data be recovered from a clicking Samsung external hard drive?
- Device
- Samsung external hard drive
- Symptom
- clicking noises
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Phone from FL
Can an iPhone with file system corruption be recovered?
- Device
- iPhone
- Symptom
- file system corruption
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Storage device from NY
Can a physically damaged SanDisk USB flash drive be recovered?
- Device
- SanDisk USB flash drive
- Symptom
- physical damage
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Hard drive from TX
Can data be recovered from a clicking Samsung external hard drive?
- Device
- Samsung external hard drive
- Symptom
- clicking noises
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Phone from CA
Can an iPhone with file system corruption be recovered?
- Device
- iPhone
- Symptom
- file system corruption
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Hard drive from CA
Why is my Samsung hard drive clicking and can the data be recovered?
- Device
- Samsung hard drive
- Symptom
- clicking noises
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Phone from MD
Can data be recovered from an inaccessible iPhone 8 Plus?
- Device
- iPhone 8 Plus phone
- Symptom
- phone inaccessible
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Storage device from ID
Can data be recovered from a physically damaged microSD card?
- Device
- microSD card
- Symptom
- physical damage
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Hard drive from AZ
Can a Seagate external hard drive with file system corruption be recovered?
- Device
- Seagate external hard drive
- Symptom
- file system corruption
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Phone from NJ
Can an iPhone 6 Plus with lost photos and videos be recovered?
- Device
- iPhone 6 Plus phone
- Symptom
- lost photos and videos
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Storage device from NJ
Can a Samsung NVMe SSD that won't boot be recovered?
- Device
- Samsung NVMe SSD
- Symptom
- won't boot
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Hard drive
Can data be recovered from a physically damaged Samsung external hard drive?
- Device
- Samsung external hard drive
- Symptom
- physical damage
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Phone from IA
Can data be recovered from an iPhone 14 Pro Max that won't power on?
- Device
- iPhone 14 Pro Max phone
- Symptom
- won't power on
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Storage device
Can a WD NVMe SSD that is not detected be recovered?
- Device
- WD NVMe SSD
- Symptom
- not detected by computer
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Storage device from GA
Why is my microSD card not detected by my computer?
- Device
- microSD card
- Symptom
- not detected by computer
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Phone
Can iPhone 11 Pro Max data be recovered if it won't power on?
- Device
- iPhone 11 Pro Max phone
- Symptom
- won't power on
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Storage device from IL
Why is my microSD card not detected by my computer?
- Device
- microSD card
- Symptom
- not detected by computer
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Hard drive from WA
Why is my Seagate external hard drive clicking?
- Device
- Seagate external hard drive
- Symptom
- clicking noises
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Phone from MD
Can an Android phone with file system corruption be recovered?
- Device
- Android phone
- Symptom
- file system corruption
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Storage device from WI
Can malware data loss be recovered from a SanDisk SSD?
- Device
- SanDisk SSD
- Symptom
- malware-related data loss
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Storage device from VA
Can data be recovered from a Samsung microSD card that won't boot?
- Device
- Samsung microSD card
- Symptom
- won't boot
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Hard drive
Can data be recovered from an Intel external hard drive that won't power on?
- Device
- Intel external hard drive
- Symptom
- won't power on
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Storage device from NJ
Can a Samsung USB flash drive that won't boot be recovered?
- Device
- Samsung USB flash drive
- Symptom
- won't boot
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Storage device
Can a Samsung NVMe SSD that won't boot be recovered?
- Device
- Samsung NVMe SSD
- Symptom
- won't boot
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Storage device
Can data be recovered from a physically damaged MacBook storage device?
- Device
- MacBook storage device
- Symptom
- physical damage
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Storage device from DC
Can a liquid damaged Samsung USB flash drive be recovered?
- Device
- Samsung USB flash drive
- Symptom
- liquid damage
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Phone from AL
Can a liquid damaged iPhone get its data recovered?
- Device
- iPhone
- Symptom
- liquid damage
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Storage device from NY
Can a liquid damaged Samsung SD card be recovered?
- Device
- Samsung SD card
- Symptom
- liquid damage
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Phone from NY
Can data be recovered from an iPhone that is not detected by a computer?
- Device
- iPhone
- Symptom
- not detected by computer
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Storage device from NJ
Can lost photos and videos be recovered from a Samsung laptop SSD?
- Device
- Samsung laptop SSD
- Symptom
- lost photos and videos
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Storage device from NJ
Can data be recovered from a physically damaged MacBook storage device?
- Device
- MacBook storage device
- Symptom
- physical damage
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Storage device from MI
Can data be recovered from a physically damaged Intel USB flash drive?
- Device
- Intel USB flash drive
- Symptom
- physical damage
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Hard drive from CA
Can a clicking WD hard drive still be recovered?
- Device
- WD hard drive
- Symptom
- clicking noises
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Phone from PA
Can iPhone 7 Plus data be recovered after file system corruption?
- Device
- iPhone 7 Plus phone
- Symptom
- file system corruption
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Storage device
Can a liquid damaged Samsung external SSD be recovered?
- Device
- Samsung external SSD
- Symptom
- liquid damage
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Hard drive from NJ
Can accidentally deleted files be recovered from a WD external hard drive?
- Device
- WD external hard drive
- Symptom
- accidentally deleted files
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Phone from MN
Can liquid damaged Google Pixel phone data be recovered?
- Device
- Google Pixel phone
- Symptom
- liquid damage
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Hard drive from TX
Why won't my WD My Passport external hard drive power on?
- Device
- WD My Passport external hard drive
- Symptom
- won't power on
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Storage device from NJ
Can data be recovered from an iPad tablet with file system corruption?
- Device
- iPad tablet
- Symptom
- file system corruption
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Storage device
Can liquid damaged MacBook storage device data be recovered?
- Device
- MacBook storage device
- Symptom
- liquid damage
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Storage device from CA
Why won't my Samsung USB flash drive power on?
- Device
- Samsung USB flash drive
- Symptom
- won't power on
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Hard drive from NY
Can a Maxtor external hard drive that won't boot be recovered?
- Device
- Maxtor external hard drive
- Symptom
- won't boot
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Storage device from NJ
Can data be recovered from an iPad tablet that won't power on?
- Device
- iPad tablet
- Symptom
- won't power on
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Phone from DE
Can data be recovered from an inaccessible Samsung Galaxy phone?
- Device
- Samsung Galaxy phone
- Symptom
- phone inaccessible
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Storage device from NJ
Can a physically damaged Samsung USB flash drive be recovered?
- Device
- Samsung USB flash drive
- Symptom
- physical damage
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Storage device from MD
Can data be recovered from an iPad tablet that won't power on?
- Device
- iPad tablet
- Symptom
- won't power on
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Phone from NC
Can an iPhone that won't boot still get data recovery?
- Device
- iPhone
- Symptom
- won't boot
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Storage device from NJ
Can liquid damaged MacBook storage device data be recovered?
- Device
- MacBook storage device
- Symptom
- liquid damage
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Storage device from MA
Can a Samsung USB flash drive that is not detected be recovered?
- Device
- Samsung USB flash drive
- Symptom
- not detected by computer
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Phone
Can data be recovered from an inaccessible iPhone 12 Mini?
- Device
- iPhone 12 Mini phone
- Symptom
- phone inaccessible
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Storage device from CO
Why is my Samsung USB flash drive not detected by my computer?
- Device
- Samsung USB flash drive
- Symptom
- not detected by computer
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Hard drive
Can data be recovered from a physically damaged WD laptop hard drive?
- Device
- WD laptop hard drive
- Symptom
- physical damage
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Phone from CA
Can data be recovered from a liquid damaged Samsung Galaxy phone?
- Device
- Samsung Galaxy phone
- Symptom
- liquid damage
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Storage device
Can data be recovered from a physically damaged Samsung SD card?
- Device
- Samsung SD card
- Symptom
- physical damage
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Hard drive from PA
Why is my Seagate external hard drive clicking?
- Device
- Seagate external hard drive
- Symptom
- clicking noises
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Storage device
Can data be recovered from an iPad tablet that won't boot?
- Device
- iPad tablet
- Symptom
- won't boot
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Phone from TX
Why is my iPhone not detected by my computer?
- Device
- iPhone
- Symptom
- not detected by computer
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Storage device
Can data be recovered from a physically damaged Intel SSD?
- Device
- Intel SSD
- Symptom
- physical damage
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Storage device from PA
Can a liquid damaged Samsung USB flash drive be recovered?
- Device
- Samsung USB flash drive
- Symptom
- liquid damage
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Hard drive from PA
Why is my WD external hard drive not detected by my computer?
- Device
- WD external hard drive
- Symptom
- not detected by computer
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Storage device from GA
Can data be recovered from a liquid damaged iPad tablet?
- Device
- iPad tablet
- Symptom
- liquid damage
- Outcome
- Data recovered
- Phone
Can data be recovered from a liquid damaged iPhone 15?
- Device
- iPhone 15 phone
- Symptom
- liquid damage
- Outcome
- Data recovered
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