Hard Drive / DVD / CD

Replacements / Upgrades and Recovery

Laptop hard drives are the workhorse of your laptop and can fail due to several reasons. Thes range form Electronic failure, Mechanical Failure or Logical failure. The same can be said for DVD / CD Drives. Here at Laptop Repairs Cornwall we can replace the hard drives and DVD / CD Drives on site, using the highest quality replacement parts. Most new hard drives come with a 3 to 5 year warranty, and can often be replaced within a day or so. (subject to parts being in stock).

Hard Drives and Data Recovery

Electronic Failure:

Explanation: Electronic failure usually relates to problems on the controller board of the actual hard disk. The computer may suffer a power spike or electrical surge that knocks out the controller board on the hard disk making it undetectable to the BIOS.

Electrical failures - How to diagnose: Common Symptom

The hard disk will not spin up when the drive is powered on - it will appear dead & not be recognised by the computer

Actions to take

Laptop Repairs Cornwall can recover data from all types of electrical hard drive failure

Mechanical Failure:

Mechanical hard disk failures are those which develop on components internal to the hard disk itself. Often as soon as an internal component goes faulty the data on the hard disk will become inaccessible.

Mechanical failures - How to diagnose: Common Symptoms

When powered on, the hard drive will immediately begin to make a regular ticking or clicking sound

Actions to take

Recovering data from hard drives with mechanical failure requires the drive to be worked on in a clean room as the drive has to be taken apart and investigated in lab conditions. Laptop Repairs Cornwall have access to a leading recovery specialist which we use to recover drives with mechanical problems.

Note: We see many laptop hard drives with mechanical failure. Fortunately the data is often recoverable. For specific symptoms.

Do not be tempted to open a hard disk if you suspect a mechanical fault: there is nothing you will be able to do and you will contaminate the internal clean air environment. There is also a good chance that during this process you will destroy any chance that we have of successfully recovering the data

DVD / CD Drives

DVD and CD Drives suffer from lots of different types of failure an can also be replaced within a day or so. (subject to parts being in stock).

This covers any make and model including the following:

Acer, Alcam, Alienware, AMAX, AMS, Afina, Arm, Ashton, Advent, Asus, Averatec, Compaq, CTX, Dell, ECS, Emachines, Eversham, EPS, Fujitsu, Fujitsu Siemens, Gateway Gigatech, Hitachi, HP, Hyperdata, IBM, MTC, NEC, Northgate, Northstar Notebook (Clones), Packard Bell, Panasonic, Samsung, Sony and many more.

If your make of laptop is not listed above, please call first to enquire if we cover your make, don't worry we probably do.

Laptop Cleaning

Believe it or not, but laptops really do suffer when they get a dust build-up.

TCS recommend having your laptop cleaned at least once per year if your laptop is used over 3-4 times a week. We can offer this service (together with a check-up and optimisation of your operating system) with prices starting from £40.

We cover the following areas

Truro, Bodmin, Bude, Camborne, Falmouth, Hayle, Helston, Marazion, Mullion, Newquay, Penryn, Padstow, Penzance, Porthleven, Portreath, Redruth, Rock, Roseland, Sennen, St Agnes, St Austell, St Breward, St Buryan, St Ives, St Just, St Mawes, The Lizard and all the areas in between