Welcome to TecLeo Data Recovery Lab.

We specialize in professional data recovery (data retrieval) from servers, NAS and RAID volumes, PC (personal computer) and laptop hard disk drives (HDD), external hard drives, backup tapes (tape cartridges), CDs and DVDs, memory sticks (flash drives), SD cards and almost all other types of digital data storage devices.

Electro-mechanically failed hard drives, dropped hard drives, data corruption, virus infections, data deletion, formatted drives, old data tape cartridges, to multiple hard drive failures on your RAID volume - no matter what your data loss situation looks like; we have a solution to help recover your data!

We have been in the data recovery industry for over 14 years and our expertise is trusted throughout South Africa and the rest of Africa. We are constantly striving for excellence in all areas of our service! You can rest assured that your data is in professional hands.

National data recovery service to all our clients in Gauteng (Pretoria, Johannesburg, Centurion), Kwazulu-Natal (Durban), Eastern Cape (Port Elizabeth, East London), Western Cape (Cape Town), Limpopo (Polokwane/Pietersburg), Mpumalanga (Nelspruit), North West (Rustenburg), Free State (Bloemfontein), Northern Cape (Kimberley) and all other cities in South Africa!

More than 12800 data recovery jobs received since 1999 and counting!

SEAGATE BARRACUDA 7200.11, ES.2 SATA, AND DIAMONDMAX 22 "SELF BRICKING" FIRMWARE ISSUE

There are at least two firmware problems affecting these drives typically leaving them as unreadable. This issue was diagnosed middle to late 2008 with the solution being made available to professional data recovery companies since December 2008. Most of the drives are recoverable although there are secondary problems that can leave the drive only partially and in some cases totally unrecoverable. Seagate made free firmware updates available but can only be applied if the drive is still detectable.

Affected models could include - ST31000340AS, ST31000340NS, STM31000340AS, ST31000340SV, ST3750330AS, ST3750330NS, STM3750330AS, ST3750330SV, ST3750630AS, ST3500320NS, STM3500320AS, ST3500320SV, ST3640330AS, ST3250310NS, STM31000334AS, ST3320410SV, ST3640530AS, STM3320614AS, ST3500320AS, STM3160813AS, ST3500620AS, ST3500820AS, ST31500341AS, ST31000333AS, ST3640323AS, ST3640623AS, ST3320613AS, ST3320813AS & ST3160813AS.

Please do not hesitate in contacting us should you require assistance in recovering from this potential data loss situation.

SUMMARY OF OUR DATA RECOVERY SERVICES
Server Data Recovery  *  RAID Data Recovery  *  Laptop Data Recovery  *  Hard Drive Data Recovery  *  CD and DVD Data Recovery  *  Fujitsu Hard Drive Data Recovery  *  Hitachi Hard Drive Data Recovery  *  IBM Hard Drive Data Recovery  *   Quantum Hard Drive Data Recovery  *  Samsung Hard Drive Data Recovery  *  Seagate Hard Drive Data Recovery  *  Toshiba Hard Drive Data Recovery  *  Western Digital Hard Drive Data Recovery   *  Digital Photo, Image, Compact Flash Recovery  *  iPod, MP3, Audio Data Recovery  *  Apple Macintosh Data Recovery  *  Tape Data Recovery  *  Lost File Data Recovery  *  Email Data Recovery  *  Database Data Recovery  *  Password Recovery  *  Departing Employee Data Capture and Analysis

• The drive not be recognized by the BIOS.
• The drive not be accessible due to a mechanical failure - normally recognized by a grinding or clicking sound.
• Drive not detected after being dropped - making a knocking sound or not spinning.
• The drive not working after a power failure / power surges, spike or lightning.
• The drive detected by the BIOS but reporting as unreadable.
• The drive damaged due to fire, water & smoke or any other environmental causes.
• Accidental / intentional deleted directories and / or files.
• The drive corrupted and not being able to read the data files and/or  directories.
• The drive been formatted and/or re-partioned and re-loaded.
• The drive no longer recognized by the operating system.
• Data "wiped-out" by viruses such as CIH or Worm.ExploreZip or any other virus.
• Intentional or malicious damage i.e. files deleted by disgruntled employees or other physical damage.
• The drive corrupted by compression programs such as DriveSpace or DoubleSpace.

• Free collection and delivery within the borders of South Africa for all pre-approved recoveries - excluding servers, complete laptops and PCs.
• Free consultation, evaluation and quotation.
• No quote rejection fee.
• Fixed quoted price.
• Our data guarantee  - no recovery, no charge, that is:
  • you will not be invoiced should we for some reason not be able to recover the data, or the data recovered not be in a useable condition,
  • we can re-negotiate a price (less than the quoted amount) should some of the data recovered be of use to you with the option to proceed or not.
• 100% satisfaction guaranteed:
  • we will do everything possible to rectify the recovery or refund the recovery charges (or a portion thereof) should we not be able to solve any valid issues with the recovered data.
• Confidentiality guaranteed - we work in a secure environment having signed a non-disclosure agreement.
• All recovery work done in-house.
• No billable work undertaken unless approved in writing.
• Optional service levels.
  For more info - SERVICE LEVEL MATRIX
• Our no surprises, no-nonsense terms and conditions
  For more info - TERMS AND CONDITIONS

- ECONOMY, STANDARD, PRIORITY and HIGH PRIORITY DATA RECOVERY OPTIONS -
More information and comparison matrix on our different service levels >>

• Server and RAID, NAS, SAN SCSI, SAS hard disk drive
• Fiber channel
• Multi-boot, striped, spanned, mirrored, JBOD and all other types RAID configurations
• Laptop hard disk drive - IDE, SATA, Solid State
• PC IDE, EIDE, PATA, SATA, Solid State (NAND) hard disk drive
• ESDI, PCMCIA, MICRODRIVES
• Compact Flash, Digital Flash card, XD, Mini & Micro SD, Jet Flash, Micro MMC memory devices
• IPod, IPhone Photo and Video bank devices bank (MP3, MP4, AVI etc.)
• DVD, CD, CDR & CDRW
• Travan, AIT, DAT, DLT, ¼" Tape
• USB, Firewire
• Zip, Jaz, MO
• Floppy 1.2, 1.44, 2.8, 120MB
• RLL/MFM/ST hard disk

• FAT 16 (Microsoft NT, Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows 3.X, DOS, IBM DOS)
• FAT 32 (Windows XP, Windows 2000, ME, 98)
• Microsoft NT 3, 4, Server 2000, Server 2003, Windows XP, XP64 BIT, Vista (FAT, NTFS, NTFS 5)
• LINUX EXT2FS/EXT3FS/REISIZER FS, LVM/IBM EVMS
• Novell Netware (NSS, UFS, NWFS)
• Apple Macintosh (MFS, HFS, HFS+)
• UNIX SCO OpenServer and Xenix
• UNIXWARE Novell, SCO
• UNIX SOLARIS (SUN), BSD/FreeBSD, QNX, HPUX, UNIXIRIX, AIX (IBM RS/6000)