Laptops are probably more prone to physical damage than desktop PCs, simply because they are so portable. Having said that, they are probably less likely to be damaged by voltage surges than the PC because of them being battery operated. That doesn’t mean that they never suffer from damage of that nature though, and you may find that one day you have to engage the services of a laptop data recovery service. That is one of the things that we specialise in. What are the other reasons for a laptop to crash.

Well, it’s almost always going to be the hard drive that has problems. These can occur, as I mentioned above, by experiencing a power peak – a nearby lightning strike can cause this. If the HDD suddenly loses power when it is writing data, this can cause a logical error making the dick unreadable. Viruses or other malicious code can also cause data to be corrupted.

Intratec are specialists in laptop data recovery. However there are certain precautions that you can take to make the recovery of lost data easier. The first thing to do is to revert to your backups – you do make backups, don’t you? When you first call us, one of our technicians will probably talk you through a laptop data recovery yourself – it can be as simple as that! However, it may come down to us having to carry out the recovery in our laboratories, where we are equipped with the latest hi-tech equipment backed up by specialist software.