Our experts have 15+ years of experience working with hard drives failures (both internal and external) and consequently have seen and resolved close to every type of malfunction possible. Common problems among clients are issues brought about by a sudden crash or rebooting of their system. This can be frustrating on a number of levels as it can interfere with projects being currently worked on, can lead to hardware problems in the external hard drive, but most of all it can lead to data loss or corruption due to a read and/or write process being interrupted. If your computer has shut down suddenly and rebooting it, you discover and error shut down your computer and contact us at Glasgow Data Recovery where our experts will try their best to help you.

There are many different types of external disk available on the market today, ranging from small portable drives to larger Network Storage drives that remain stationary within offices at home or in the workplace. These drives are used to allow for the capture of large amounts of data that the ordinary desktop or laptop computer cannot cope with or simply to ensure that the information is kept safe in the event of a network failure.

Perusing your local high street computer shop or online supplier you will find a great many storage devices to choose from, all of which with a variety of different capacities and built in warning systems in the event of a possible system failure.

For the most part these storage devices are usually one or two hard disk drives contained within a separate housing that allows for easy transport and installation on more than one machine but even in doing so problems can arise.