iMac G4 Music Recovery Narre Warren North

Posted on 13/04/202020/12/2020 by cmss

iMac G4 Music Recovery – Narre Warren North – South Eastern, Eastern suburbs and surrounding such as: Berwick, Beaconsfield, Cranbourne, Dandenong, Endeavour Hills, Mulgrave, Narre Warren, Pakenham, Rowville, etc. – CMSS provides first class Technical Support, Data Recovery Services! Call 8790 4460

Dead iMac G4 Music Recovery Narre Warren North

Workshop Job – Non-booting iMac G4 Desktop

The customer requested to recover his music files as much as possible when he brought over his non-booting iMac G4.

The dead computer had been used solely as a media player for music only. Great if it can be fixed, otherwise please recover as much of the music files as possible.

Push the power button, nothing, no light no noise.

Tried resetting it, still no joy.

Connected another power supply, no movement.

Highly likely a motherboard problem although no visual clues i.e. blown caps or the likes.

Not worth trying to fix this any further due to the value and purpose of the system.

Remove the HDD caddy. Two PATA drives. Connect them to one of the data recovery PCs. First drive is readily accessible but completely empty.

Second one presents a lot of bad sectors. Retrieval of the music files is going to require preparing the drive accordingly.

After processing for access, this turns out to be the system drive with all the user account folders. Recovery of the music files will now be possible indeed. As expected all other user folders are empty, so there is no other type of files to worry about.

Recover and extract the music files successfully to a safe recovery drive. All the files are integral so they should be in perfect state and playable. Test play samples, 100% good.

The customer supplied a transfer drive, appropriately format it for access by Mac OS. Copy over the recovered music folders and files.

Yes, no matter what kind of data are important to you, we can help you recover them when bad luck strikes.

Best Computer Repairs Narre Warren North

Posted on 25/02/202026/02/2020 by cmss

Best Computer Repairs Narre Warren North ~ Looking for a top class computer repairs and IT support company to help you out at Narre Warren North – South Eastern, Eastern suburbs and surrounding such as: Berwick, Beaconsfield, Cranbourne, Harkaway, Dandenong, Endeavour Hills, Mulgrave, Narre Warren, Pakenham, Rowville, etc. – CMSS for fair and honest top class laptop and computer repairs! Call 8790 4460

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We fix them all!

Windows
Mac
Android
Linux, etc

What do we fix?

Hardware

Things like: broken hard drive, not starting, no sign of life, switching off

Sluggish, unresponsive, no sound, no signal, dying, no picture, no sound, weird noises, smoked

Cracked screen, broken hinges, dropped laptop

Software

OS not loading, glitches, sluggish, not responding, can’t print, etc,

Can’t open webpages can’t get emails, can’t update, can’t install program, can’t open programs, etc.

Maintenance

Update OS and drivers, update utilities, update apps, cleanup junk files and folders, optimise settings for performance and stability, physical cleanup, fluff and dust cleanup

Desktop Failed Drive Recovery Narre Warren North

Posted on 26/12/201928/12/2019 by cmss

Desktop Failed Drive Recovery Narre Warren North – South Eastern, Eastern suburbs and surrounding such as: Berwick, Beaconsfield, Cranbourne, Dandenong, Endeavour Hills, Mulgrave, Narre Warren, Pakenham, Rowville, etc. – CMSS provides first class Technical Support! Call 8790 4460

Desktop Failed Drive Recovery Narre Warren North

Workshop Job – Home Computer Data Recovery

Desktop Failed Drive Recovery ~ The client called desperate for help getting especially her photos back. The computer had stopped booting to Windows so she took it to have it repaired to a shop recommended by a work colleague. As the hard disk had indeed failed, they replaced it with an SSD and re-installed Windows afresh. They were however unable to retrieve and restore her data to the new setup. Apparently the weather was not helping?

The client had photos she was really desperate for, more so of her recently departed dog. Although they had an external drive for backup, they had never done any as the person who set it up for them never showed them how to.

Apart from the data, the original configurations and setup were also important, though not a priority.

Please bring it in for assessment as we all have different approaches to a particular situation.

Investigating

We ran the drive through our usual assessment processes and it did turn up in really bad shape due degraded platters with a lot of bad sectors.

Findings

Following our assessments all heads returned 100% full functionality status.
Although the drive showed a lot of bad sectors the file system however still appeared ok.

As a result of the platters degradation it was not possible to access the drive directly from a computer. Consequently a path to recovering the required data from the failed drive would be as follows.

Solution

Path for recovery of the data from this failed desktop drive:
First we cloned the bad drive it to a good one using our state of the art imaging system.
Then we tried accessing the data directly from the clone for quick retrieval, but that failed. Had this worked, because the original setup and configurations were desired, we would have attempted booting from the clone. Nonetheless this testing had merit to try giving the client all possible best outcome.

Consequently, due to the failure to directly access the data through the clone, we would perform logical recovery off the clone.

Following completion of the logical recovery process we randomly check the integrity of the data to ensure the client gets them in a usable condition, not garbage.
Next, we’ll transfer the recovered data to the client external drive.
Well, this is a brief summary of what happened, the whole story is much longer and more complicated :-).

Results

Although the desktop drive showed severe degradation of the platters, the recovery process returned all the data 100% good.
Happy and thankful customer!

Nice touch

Once we’re happy with the data ourselves, we setup access to the recovered data so he could check and test them himself. We then transfer the data to the client’s supplied drive.

CMSS – Narre Warren North
We get your DATA back for you

Lost data? Photos? Business stuff? Personal stuff? External drives, SD cards, system drives? Windows? Mac? Linux? Android?

Recovering Business Data Narre Warren North

Posted on 01/12/201926/12/2019 by cmss

Recovering Business Data Narre Warren North – South Eastern, Eastern suburbs and surrounding such as: Berwick, Beaconsfield, Cranbourne, Dandenong, Endeavour Hills, Mulgrave, Narre Warren, Pakenham, Rowville, etc. – CMSS offers first class IT Support! Call 8790 4460

Recovering Business Data Narre Warren North

Workshop Job – Data Recovery

Recovering Business Data from his laptop drive led the client to call for help. Following the breakdown his laptop drive he was so desperate. After some preliminary questioning, it turned out it wasn’t physically broken, but some internal damage may have occurred.
The client mentioned he had visited a number of other data recovery options trying to get his business data back. However they told him this required clean room works as some heads were damaged and must be replaced. The expensive options!
Please bring it in for assessment as we all have different approaches to a particular situation.

Investigating

When the client came in, he further explained that he had bumped the laptop still running when closing the lid. Because he was concerned something wrong might have happened, he successfully logged back in to check. However the next day, the laptop could no longer logon to Windows.
As a result he could no longer access some of his most recent business data he didn’t get to backup.

Findings

Following our assessments all heads returned 100% fully functional status.
However the drive presented heavy media degradation and a corrupt file system although our imaging device could access the data.
Consequently a path to recovering the required business data would be as follows.

Solution

Data recovery path:
The drive is highly unstable. As a result accessing the data within on the computer was no longer possible.
Therefore we’ll clone it to a good one using our state of the art imaging system.
Then we’ll perform logical recovery off the clone upon completion of the imaging process. After that we check the integrity of the data to ensure the client gets the required them in a usable condition, not garbage.
Next, we’ll transfer the recovered data to the client external drive.
Well, this is a brief summary of what happened, the whole story is much longer and more complicated :-).

Results

Although the extensive degradation of the drive corrupted some of the recovered data, the process returned all the data he needed fully functional. He had backups of the rest from which he could restore.
Happy and thankful customer!

Nice touch

Once we’re happy with the data ourselves, we setup access to the recovered data so he could check and test them himself. We then transfer the data to the client’s supplied drive.

CMSS – Narre Warren North
Taking care of your DATA needs for you

Lost data? Photos? Business stuff? Personal stuff? External drives, SD cards, system drives?

Data Recovery Narre Warren North – Getting your Data Back!!

Posted on 14/07/201926/09/2019 by cmss

Looking for the best Data Recovery service in Narre Warren North? All South Eastern and surrounding suburbs such as: Berwick, Beaconsfield, Cranbourne, Dandenong, Endeavour Hills, Mulgrave, Narre Warren, Pakenham, Rowville, etc. – CMSS offers first class data recovery and retrieval services! Call 8790 4460

At CMSS in Narre Warren North Data Recovery and Retrieval is one of our passions – call the friendly and dedicated expert team at CMSS – 8790 4460
Anybody who has been using computers for a few years would have experienced the heart sinking feeling you get when faced with an error message such as: ‘Hard disk failure is imminent, backup your data’ or ‘You need to format the drive before you can use it’, etc.
And your whole business data is in there, or the last five years worth of family photos ~ maternity/birthdays/holidays are in there.
You try again hoping it’s just a hiccup and it’ll go away by itself. But the dreaded message keeps coming up! What do I do now?

Call the Data Recovery experts at CMSS! Phone: 8790 4460!
There are still very good chances we’ll be able to get your data back.
As the device is telling you it’s in major troubles, further thrashing it is not going to help but rather create more damage and make the recovery job more difficult. It can even make it nearly impossible as what’s dead cannot be revived.

That’s when you need help to fix the problem so you can get back to work confidently or enjoy your memories again with great relief.
Call us to help you get out of the sticky situation!

For onsite or offsite top quality and caring service, after hours and weekend – Phone: 8790 4460.

At Computer Maintenance & Support Services – (CMSS), for over 17 years, we have been recovering and retrieving data from all sort of sources or devices: Windows and Mac disks, SSDs, traditional drives, external drives, NAS devices, USB sticks and memory cards, some phones (please check with us), etc.

We also troubleshoot and fix all sorts of computer as well as IT problems for small businesses and residential users.

We’d love to help you!

Some of the things we can help you with:

Diagnostics & Troubleshooting – Hardware/Software;
Virus/Trojan/Ransomware busting and System Restoration;
Application troubleshooting and support;
Custom computer design & build (desktops or networks);
Upgrades/add-ons (CPU, xtra drives/hard disks, memory, DVD, video cards, etc.);
Laptops Repairs ~ Any brand/model – Cracked screen replacement, not charging, not starting, dead laptops, dead screens, etc.;
Windows as well as Mac computers and laptops – dead, not starting, BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death), rebooting, beeping, fuzzy screen, nothing on screen, cracked/damaged screen, etc.;
Data Recovery and Retrieval;
Internet/Email setup, troubleshooting and optimisation;
Hardware maintenance, cleaning;
Caring and sensible technical support.