There are many types of external hard drives. One type is regular 3.5 inch drive that has usb as well as power cord. The power cord provides power while the usb cable is used for connection to the computer. These drives are bigger in size. They come in different capacities. There are many companies that make these drives. Some names are Western Digital, Seagate, Lacie, Buffalo Technology, LG, Maxtor, Samsung etc. These companies have various models. For example Seagate have backup plus, expansion desktop etc. Western Digital has G-Drive, My Passport, My Cloud Home, WD Elements, My Book etc. Lacie has D2, Big etc.

These and all other companies have portable drives too. These drives are small in size and they come in different capacities. These drives have single cable called as usb cable that connects the drive to computer for data transfer or reading. These drives don’t come with power cable and are known as portable 2.5 inch drives. Both types of these external drives have same design and mechanism. They have heads, PCB, motor and platters. When they fail, data recovery is what needed in most cases. Most people think of repair when these external hard drives fail but the fact that repair is not an option, data must be recovered and transferred to a new or other drive because once the drive fail, it will never work like before and will fail again even if it is fixed.

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We can recover external, portable, desktop and network drives. Repair includes USB enclosure repair, PCB repair, cloning of corrupted drive, NAS, Dlink dns-321, Apple time capsule repair and more. We can change parts in all kinds and brands of hard drives. We recover external hard drives that have been dropped and are making clicking sound or beeping sound. If the drive spins or is dead, we can restore your data. We transfer your important data to a good drive at your choice or data can be copied to your own portable drive.

We do all our work in clean environment. As our data recovery technicians are very experienced and technology friendly. We do head transplants and all kinds of hardware and software repairs for patient drives.