Hard Drive Issues
At Cheltenham Computer Repairs, we're often faced with a number of issues related to hard drives.
When repairing computers in Cheltenham, we often have to trouble shoot problems replating to hard drives. This can be replacing hard drives which have failed, repairing hard drives by swapping the onboard Printed Circuit Board (PCB) or performing diagnostics to repairs bad sectors or lost Master Boot Records ( MBR ).
In general, we can repair a hard drive or at least get it working again. There are times when a hard drive gives up the ghost and we can do anything about it. Either the hard drive motor has failed or the read / write arm fails and then it's beyond what we can offer. If your hard drive is completely dead and you need your data back, you should contact a Data Recovery company
When repairing computers in Cheltenham, we often have to trouble shoot problems replating to hard drives. This can be replacing hard drives which have failed, repairing hard drives by swapping the onboard Printed Circuit Board (PCB) or performing diagnostics to repairs bad sectors or lost Master Boot Records ( MBR ).
In general, we can repair a hard drive or at least get it working again. There are times when a hard drive gives up the ghost and we can do anything about it. Either the hard drive motor has failed or the read / write arm fails and then it's beyond what we can offer. If your hard drive is completely dead and you need your data back, you should contact a Data Recovery company
It's Not All Failures
We don't just repair failed drives, we often add or upgrade hard drives.
Adding a hard drive increases your available space. If your original hard drive is getting full, we can add a second hard drive and make it look like part of your original setup.
In some instances, a hard drive might be looking as if it's about to fail and so we replace it.
Most people think that when we replace a hard drive, they will lose all data or will have to re-install all their programmes, but we can take an exact image of your old hard drive and add it to the new hard drive. This will get your computer back to the exact same condition as before but with a perfectly working hard drive.
Adding a hard drive increases your available space. If your original hard drive is getting full, we can add a second hard drive and make it look like part of your original setup.
In some instances, a hard drive might be looking as if it's about to fail and so we replace it.
Most people think that when we replace a hard drive, they will lose all data or will have to re-install all their programmes, but we can take an exact image of your old hard drive and add it to the new hard drive. This will get your computer back to the exact same condition as before but with a perfectly working hard drive.
Hard Drive Speeds
- 5400 rpm - old hard drives for PCs, but still common in laptops. Slowest hard drives available.
- 7200 rpm - common in PCs but installed in some high spec laptops. Easy to find and makes for a great laptop upgrade.
- 10000 rpm - high speed non-SCSI hard drives. Available in some high spec desktop PCs but easy to buy and they make for a great desktop performance upgrade. Not available for laptops.
- 15000 rpm - SCSI hard drives for servers. Possible to install into some desktop PCs but need special SCSI controllers. Not for the feint hearted.
