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With 25 years of experience in the field of data recovery, our highly trained experts can easily recover your valuable data from iMac and MacBooks. We can also guide you through the data recovery process and recover your data that might be considered lost.
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Mechanical Fault £299

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Desktop Computer Hard Drive Data Recovery — Liverpool’s No.1 Specialists (25+ Years)

Liverpool Data Recovery provides engineer-led recovery for desktop PCs and workstations—from consumer towers to high-end CAD/AI rigs and small office servers. We work across HDDs, SATA/NVMe SSDs, hybrid setups, and external DAS/NAS volumes, on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Our workflow is image-first (never write to your original device) using PC-3000, DeepSpar, and Atola plus in-house tooling.

Interfaces & Form Factors We Support

  • Rotational & SATA SSD: SATA I/II/III (2.5″/3.5″), eSATA, mSATA, micro-SATA

  • Legacy: PATA/IDE (3.5″/2.5″ ZIF/LIF), Parallel SCSI (Ultra160/Ultra320)

  • Enterprise in desktops/workstations: SAS 3/6/12 Gb/s, U.2/U.3 (SFF-8639), Fibre Channel via bridge

  • NVMe/PCIe: M.2 (2230/2242/2260/2280/22110, B/M/M-key), U.2/U.3, PCIe AIC (HHHL)

  • External/bridges used with desktops: USB-SATA/NVMe (BOT/UASP), Thunderbolt 2/3/4 enclosures

  • Array/virtual contexts: JBOD, software/hardware RAID, iSCSI LUNs, local hypervisor datastores

25 Storage Brands We Commonly See in UK Desktop Recoveries (with representative models)

(Representative of what arrives in our lab; not a sales ranking.)
Seagate (BarraCuda ST2000DM008, IronWolf/Pro, SkyHawk) • Western Digital (WD) (Blue/Black/Red/Red Pro, Ultrastar DC, My Book) • Toshiba (P300/X300/N300, MG-series) • Samsung (870/860 EVO, 980/990 PRO) • HGST (Ultrastar 7K/He) • Crucial (MX500, BX500, P3/P5/P5 Plus) • SanDisk (Ultra/Extreme SATA & portable) • Kingston (A400, KC600, NV2, KC3000) • ADATA/XPG (SU800, SX8200 Pro) • Corsair (MP510/MP600) • PNY (CS900, CS2140/3140) • Sabrent (Rocket / 4 / 4 Plus / 5) • TeamGroup (GX2, MP34/Cardea) • Transcend (SSD230S, MTE220S) • SK hynix (Gold S31/P31) • Intel (legacy) (660p/670p, S3520/S3710) • LaCie (d2/2big/5big enclosures) • G-Drive (desktop USB-C/TB) • OWC (Mercury series) • Patriot (Burst, Viper) • Lexar (NS100, NM710/800) • Mushkin (Source, Pilot-E) • Verbatim (Vi7000/Vx500) • Silicon Power (A55, UD90) • Apacer (AS340/AS350).

Professional Recovery Process

  1. Diagnostics & Stabilisation — Record SMART/DST, NVMe logs, controller IDs; isolate power faults; no in-place repairs on originals.

  2. Electronics/Firmware Repair — ROM/NVRAM transfer, donor PCB, service-area (SA) module repair, translator rebuilds.

  3. Mechanical Interventions (HDD only) — Head-stack replacement, spindle/motor swap, platter alignment; then head-mapped imaging.

  4. Forensic Imaging — Hardware-assisted cloning (PC-3000/DeepSpar/Atola) with head maps, reverse passes, adaptive timeouts, error maps preserved.

  5. Logical/Data Recovery — Rebuild GPT/MBR; repair NTFS, exFAT, APFS, HFS+, EXT, XFS, Btrfs, ReFS; targeted carving for gaps.

  6. Verification & Delivery — Hash manifests, sample-open priority files/DBs/VMs, secure hand-off.

50 Desktop Faults We Recover — and How We Fix Them

A. Mechanical HDD (1–10)

  1. Head crash / clicking → Donor HSA swap + ROM/adaptives; per-head imaging with soft-ECC and conservative seek profile.

  2. Stiction (heads stuck) → Controlled release to ramp; immediate low-duty cloning to avoid re-adhesion.

  3. Spindle seizure / motor failure → Platter/hub transplant to matched chassis; alignment check; full image.

  4. Off-track seeks / servo drift → Calibrate adaptives; mask weak heads; image stable heads first.

  5. Media scoring/particulate → Short-window reads around scars; accept partials; prioritise critical LBAs.

  6. Ramp damage after shock → Mechanical remediation, HSA swap; staged imaging outer→inner cylinders.

  7. Bent top cover / altered flying height → Lid swap, shim; verify flying height; image.

  8. Vibration artefacts → Isolate drive, reduce queue depth; linear passes only.

  9. Thermal asperities → Temperature-controlled sessions; cool-off intervals; map unstable tracks.

  10. HPA/DCO truncation → Normalise in clone; restore full LBA range before FS work.

B. Electronics & Firmware (HDD) (11–20)

  1. PCB failure / TVS short → Replace TVS/fuse or donor PCB + ROM; verify rails & preamp bias; image.

  2. Burnt motor driver → Donor PCB/driver; short spin windows; clone.

  3. ROM/adaptives mismatch (DIY PCB swap) → Move ROM/NVRAM; relearn adaptives; exit BSY states.

  4. SA module corruption → Patch DIR/DEFECT/TRANSLATOR; rebuild translator; unlock user area.

  5. Translator loss (no LBA access) → Regenerate from P-/G-lists; test read; clone.

  6. SMART/G-list storm → Freeze reallocation; reverse imaging; minimise head thrash.

  7. Firmware bug (busy lock) → Vendor terminal fixes; clear logs; stage clone.

  8. USB bridge encryption (WD/SanDisk) → Retain original bridge/keys or capture on-the-fly decryption during imaging.

  9. Power rail instability → Replace LDO/buck; ripple check; then clone.

  10. Connector/ESD damage → Replace ESD arrays; rebuild traces; stable clone path.

C. Media & Read Path (21–25)

  1. Bad sector clusters → Multi-pass forward/reverse; targeted retries over file extents.

  2. Weak servo wedges → Lower RPM (if supported); reduced seek amplitude.

  3. Magnetic decay (archives) → Long settle; majority-vote across reads.

  4. Zone boundary errors (SMR) → Long sequential imaging; post-process zone mapping.

  5. Cache/NCQ timeouts → Force QD=1; disable look-ahead; stabilise reads.

D. SSD/NVMe Specific (26–35)

  1. Controller no-enumerate → Vendor/test mode; else chip-off (if removable NAND): ECC/XOR/FTL rebuild.

  2. FTL/translator corruption → Parse metadata; rebuild L2P; export coherent LBA image.

  3. High BER / NAND wear → LDPC/BCH soft decode; read-retry voltage curves; temperature tuning; majority vote.

  4. Power-loss during GC → Reconstruct mapping journal; prefer last consistent generations.

  5. Trim/UNMAP data loss → Recover only untrimmed extents, journals, shadow copies.

  6. SED/OPAL encryption → Image then unlock with keys; plaintext clone; repair inner FS.

  7. NVMe namespace faults → Rebuild namespace tables; vendor path to raw export.

  8. Thermal throttling resets → Heatsink/duty-cycle; low QD reads.

  9. Bridge instability (USB-NVMe) → Bypass to native PCIe/U.2; clone raw.

  10. ePCIe/AIC failures → Down-train link; increase timeouts; staged imaging.

E. Logical / Filesystem (36–44)

  1. Partition table loss (MBR/GPT) → Signature scan; rebuild with original offsets; mount RO.

  2. NTFS $MFT/$MFTMirr corruption → Rebuild from mirror and $LogFile; recover orphans.

  3. ReFS damage → Salvage from intact allocation/metadata; export valid streams.

  4. EXT4/XFS/Btrfs journal issues → Use backup superblocks; fsck/xfs_repair/Btrfs tools on clone only.

  5. APFS/HFS+ on external desktop volumes → APFS checkpoint selection; HFS+ B-tree rebuild; extract.

  6. RAW prompt / “needs to format” → Treat as metadata loss; restore boot sectors; virtual mount.

  7. Accidental deletion → Metadata-first; minimal carving to preserve names/timestamps.

  8. Quick/Full format → Restore from secondary headers; deep scan anchors; carve selective gaps.

  9. Corrupt archives/databases → Rebuild ZIP central dir, OOXML indexes, SQLite pages; verify with checksums.

F. System-Level / RAID / Virtualisation (45–48)

  1. Drive not recognised in BIOS/UEFI → Fix SA/ROM; once enumerable, image via native bus.

  2. Failed RAID rebuild (desktop RAID cards/Intel RST) → Clone all members; virtual reassembly; parity reconcile; mount volume.

  3. VM disks (VMDK/VHDX) damaged → Treat as raw; repair container map; mount guest FS; export.

  4. iSCSI/iSATA external DAS volumes → Reattach clones; recover inner FS/LUNs.

G. Power / Environment / Malware (49–50)

  1. Surge/brownout → Replace TVS/regulators; clone; fix partial writes in FS.

  2. Malware/ransomware on desktop → Clean imaging; snapshot/version restore; decrypt with keys where feasible; preserve evidence.

Why Choose Liverpool Data Recovery

  • 25+ years; thousands of successful desktop, workstation & small-server recoveries

  • Multi-vendor expertise (consumer → enterprise; HDD, SATA/NVMe SSD)

  • Advanced tooling & donor inventory to maximise yield

  • Free diagnostics with clear options before work begins

Ready to start? Tell us the model, symptoms, and your highest-priority data. Package the drive in an anti-static bag inside a small padded box or envelope and post or drop off. We’ll stabilise, image, and recover with full technical reporting.

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