hard drive replacement – Jester's Computer Services

July 3 2016

Hard Drive Services

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Unless you have a solid state hard drive your hard drive has moving parts and for that reason it is susceptible to failure. Hard drives have a higher failure rate during the first year of use and failure rates rise again after 4 years of use. Regular maintenance can help to diagnose potential hard drive problems however it is always recommended that you backup any important data because hardware failure can occur at anytime.

Our hard drive services start at $32.50 for a disk error check. View additional hard drive services and details below.

Hard Drive Replacement

If your hard drive is failing you may need a replacement hard drive. We keep solid-state hard drives in various sizes in stock for both laptop and desktop computers.

Once your hard drive is installed we can install Windows on your device for $99. If your old hard drive is still readable we may be able to clone your old drive to your new drive which returns your computer to the state it was in with your old hard drive but now with a good working drive free of bad sectors that can cause data corruption, freezing, and overall slowness.

If you notice that your computer won’t boot, has slowed down or is 4 years or more old and has never had maintenance or a hard drive replacement your drive may have errors and corruption.

Some corruption can happen over time and bad spots or sectors can cause your computer to not boot. Minor corruption and errors can be fixed be doing a disk error check on your hard drive.

The amount of time a disk error check depends on the size of the drive, the amount of data stored, fragmentation of the drive and hardware failure.

If errors are found on your drive and are correctable your hard drive may continue working for months or years. Corruption that re-occurs or errors that are found and can’t be corrected by a more through disk check should be replaced.

If your hard drive is failing we may be able to make an exact copy of your hard drive so that you won’t lose any data or programs. If your hard drive has failed completely cloning the hard drive is not an option. If your hard drive is still readable we may need to do a disk-error check before we can attempt a hard drive clone.

Cloning your hard drive is a flat rate of $65. The amount of time the cloning process takes depends on the health of your hard drive. Healthy hard drives with less data and fragmentation can clone within a few hours while failing drives can take several days to complete and are not always successful.

For clones from one system to another system, an advanced configuration may be necessary. For these situations, we are typically able to offer our Advanced Clone service which includes the clone and confirmation to a new system for a flat rate of $100.

Data recovery starts at $32.50 for storage devices 32 GB or less. Data recovery for hard drives and storage devices over 32 GB start at $99 and includes disk error checks and copying to a provided storage media.

We always recommend backing up important data if you can’t live without it however we all make mistakes and delete a file or find ourselves with a memory card that was accidentally erased.

As soon as you notice that data is missing turn off your device and cease use to avoid overwriting any of the recently deleted data that may still be located on your hard drive.

How data recovery works – what happens when files are erased or deleted?

When you take traditional actions to delete files on your devices the directory pointing to the file is broken so that it becomes inaccessible on the surface. The data is marked for deletion but usually remains on the device until it is overwritten by new data. The sooner your recognize that your data is missing and the less you have used your device since the data was erased the higher your chances of recovering the files.