Consumer Electronics (CE) hard disks are specifically manufactured for the PVR market. CE drives are not generally available in retail stores, and can only be purchased through authorized resellers, such as XtendedPlay. Data recovery on these drives however,  is sometimes possible.

Here is a list of some of the most common faults we get asked to perform data recovery for:

“I want to recover excel file from a defunct hard drive”.

“This is my auxiliary drive with ALL family data Seemingly Hard disk head fault. PC boots fine. Win XP runs slowly, identifies hardware but does not read any formatted data or active partition”.

“Freecom portable external Usb hard drive 400Gb capacity – had wrong adaptor plugged into it – will not work – took to local computer repairer – they could not get it to be detected by any PCs they had – data is very important as it contains many photos and research material”.