Five Star Data Recovery

Recovering Data from: Hard Drives, SSDs, Flash Media, iPhones & RAIDs. No charge until your data is recovered. (818)-272-8866

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What type of external hard hard drive do you use?

SSD or HDD?

Please share your feedback on why you chose one over the other.

Vahan, our Head Engineer, will provide his own professional opinion on the topic.

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The ramp was broken and caused damage to the heads. After inspection and a head swap, the data was successfully recovered.
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The device suffered heavy fire damage and most components were destroyed. Using component-level data recovery techniques, the data was successfully recovered from this burned Samsung
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Head crash inside a Western Digital 4TB drive.
Microscope inspection revealed a broken read/write head.
A donor head assembly was installed in our clean room lab.
✅ Data successfully recovered.
📍 Glendale, CA
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This WD 4TB drive was opened outside a clean room, causing contamination on the platters.
After inspection in our clean room lab, professional platter cleaning was performed.
✅ Data successfully recovered.
If your drive fails — do not open it.
📍 Glendale, CA

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This Seagate was opened outside a clean room.
Dust contamination damaged the heads and platters.
It required platter cleaning and a full head swap in our lab.
✅ Data successfully recovered.
If your drive fails — power it off and bring it to a professional.
📍 Glendale, CA
#LA

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⚠️ Stiction — the heads were stuck to the platter, and the read/write heads were bent.
This internal damage can quickly become worse if the drive is powered on repeatedly.
Cleanroom recovery with donor head replacement was required.

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After inspection in our cleanroom recovery lab we performed platter cleaning a platter swap head swap and PCB board replacement to complete the recovery process. Complex internal damage required multiple advanced procedures but the data recovery process was completed successfully

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The drive was powered on many times while making a clicking sound. Each power attempt caused more damage to the platters until the surface was scratched beyond recovery.Unfortunately in this case, the data could not be recovered.
⚠️ If you hear a clicking sound do not power on it

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Seagate 2TB Mobile HDD came in with stiction, heavy contaminations, and smashed heads. In our cleanroom recovery process, we carefully cleaned all contaminations, fixed the stiction issue, and replaced the damaged head assembly.
After the data was successfully recovered.
#Data

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The drive was opened outside of a cleanroom, causing contamination and fingerprints on the platter.
In our cleanroom recovery process, we removed the contamination, replaced the broken head, and successfully recovered the data.
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Customer opened the hard drive not in a clean room, which caused internal contamination and head damage.
After professional cleanroom recovery and head replacement, the data was successfully recovered.
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Top platter was deeply scratched.
When a drive starts making unusual clicking or grinding noises, do not power it on again. Continued power can cause catastrophic platter damage like this.
After cleanroom inspection, the surface damage was confirmed.
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Severe contamination and a missing read/write head caused this drive to fail completely.
After careful cleanroom recovery inspection and a head swap, we were able to successfully recover the customer’s critical data.
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USB flash drive not working case.
Chip-off data recovery performed — data successfully recovered.
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Clicking hard drive case.
Cleanroom recovery with a head swap completed — data successfully recovered.
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Stiction failure with severe head damage and contamination inside the drive.
Cleanroom recovery, head replacement, and successful data recovery.
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Stiction case with damaged heads and contaminated platters.
After careful platter cleaning and a precise head replacement in our cleanroom, the data was successfully recovered. 💾✔️
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This drive failed due to stiction, where the read/write heads became stuck on the platters.
After careful release and inspection, the data was recovered successfully.
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A failed SSD with damaged circuitry.
After board-level work and component relocation, the data was recovered.
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The drive had stiction causing failure.
After replacing the read/write heads, the data was successfully recovered.
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