WD10EZEX data recovery
Recovering data from the Western Digital WD10EZEX (1TB), a 3.5-inch SATA drive from the WD Caviar Blue and WD Blue range. Free evaluation in our central London clean-room lab, with courier collection from anywhere in the UK.
About the WD10EZEX
| Make | Western Digital |
| Family | WD Caviar Blue and WD Blue |
| Model | WD10EZEX |
| Capacity | 1TB |
| Size | 3.5-inch |
| Connection | SATA |
| Made | 2009–today |
| Used in | Desktop |
What usually goes wrong
The most common desktop drive in UK PCs. Later 2TB and 6TB models (EZAZ) use SMR recording, which makes firmware faults harder to recover from. We rebuild the drive's translator with PC-3000.
If your WD10EZEX is clicking, beeping or not spinning, switch it off. Every restart can damage the platters further. Don’t open it and don’t run recovery software on it.
How we recover the WD10EZEX
We use PC-3000 systems from ACE Lab, the professional standard for data recovery labs. PC-3000 lets us repair a drive’s firmware through its service area, read damaged drives one head at a time, and copy weak drives slowly and safely without stressing them. Physical repairs such as replacing read/write heads are done in our clean room in central London, so the drive never leaves our lab.
We always work on a copy of the drive, never the original, and you get a list of recovered files to check before you pay for the recovery.
Prices
| Evaluation | Free |
| Clean-room diagnostic | £79 |
| Deleted files, working drive | £99 |
| Logical recovery, 1TB–4TB | £150–£250 |
| Physical recovery, single driveplus donor drive if needed | £450 |
All prices + VAT. Full price list