Some of the drives that land on my workbench have already been written off by their owners. And often I can still bring exactly those back. Here I show real cases from my specialist workshop for data recovery in Stuttgart-Sillenbuch: what was broken, how I solved it and what came out of it in the end.
PC suddenly extremely slow
A PC that barely responded: the SSD delivered only 100 kilobytes per second at times and still reported no error. After 24 hours of cloning: 100 percent of the data recovered.
Toshiba MQ04ABD200 (2 TB)
An external 2 TB hard drive that Windows no longer recognized. Despite 16,360 barely readable sectors I read the drive out completely and reconstructed the data.