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Data Recovery South Africa

digital forensics

Do you need professional help recovering data from a failed, faulty, broken, or damaged hard drive, SSD (Solid State Drive), cell phone, memory stick, compact flash, or any other data storage device, then you have come to the right place. 

We will give your data the best possible chance of being recovered by using our experience recovering data from most if not all, types of data storage devices since 1999, the best available tools, equipment, software, and ongoing research and development (R&D).

Our passion is helping you look after your data. We will only give up on recovering or investigating your data once we have exhausted all possible solutions. This is why we succeed in recovering data where others have failed.

Use our free courier collection service for all pre-approved work and a free courier return service for all completed jobs – no matter which corner of South Africa you're located.

We only need your written approval, physical address and two contact persons with telephone numbers.

We recover data from most computer operating systems, file systems and partition types, including:

  • Windows New Technology Filesystem (NTFS / NTFS 5)
  • Microsoft Resilient File System (ReFS / ReFS2+ / ReFS 3.4 / 3.7 / 3.10)
  • Apple HFS+, HPFS and APFS
  • Linux Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, XFS, extended format XFS, JFS, B-tree file system (Btrfs), F2FS
  • Virtual machines - VMware (VMFS / VMFS6), DD, IMG, BIN, VHD, VHDX, E01, ESX(i), ZFS volumes, Open VMS
  • Microsoft Extensible File Allocation Table (exFAT)
  • FreeBSD / OpenBSD / NetBSD / Solaris UFS1, UFS2 - Little and Big Endian variants
  • Windows 3.0, 3.1, 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 and Windows 11
  • Microsoft Windows NT3.5, NT4
  • Windows Server 2000, Server 2003 R2, Server 2008 R2, Server 2012 R2, Server 2016, Server 2019, Server 2022
  • CD/DVD media Universal Disk Format (UDF)
  • Microsoft FAT file system (FAT12 / FAT16 / FAT32)
  • AIX and Linux Journaled File System (legacy JFS) and Enhanced Journaled File System (JFS2)
  • Netware NSS and NWFS
  • CD-ROM ISO 9660
  • Yet Another Flash File System - Yaffs2
  • Data tape UStar / Tar / Pax / CPIO

We recover data from all hard disk media types, including:

  • Personal computer (PC) 3.5" hard disk drives - SSD, IDE, EIDE, PATA, Fiber Channel, SATA, M.2 SATA, M.2 PCIe NVMe/AHCI, PCIe x16, Helium-Sealed Hard Drives
  • Laptop 2.5"/1.8" hard disk drives - Solid State Drive (SSD), IDE, SATA, ZIF, LIF, Fiber Channel and Micro SATA (mSATA), M.2 SATA, M.2 PCIe NVMe/AHCI, PCIe x16 and Apple MacBook
  • Portable hard disk drives - USB 1.0, USB 2.0, USB 3.x, Firewire, eSATA and Helium-filled drives
  • Server, RAID, NAS, SAN etc.
  • SCSI and SAS hard drives (including multi-boot, spanned, striped (RAID 0), mirrored (RAID 1), JBOD, RAID 2, RAID3, RAID4, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10 and all other nested RAID configurations
  • All types of virtual machines and volumes
  • RLL, MFM, ST hard disk
  • ESDI
  • PCMCIA

We recover data from most data encryption algorithms, including:

  • BitLocker encryption
  • LUKS / LUKS2 encryption
  • Apple FileVault and APFS encryption
  • VeraCrypt / TrueCrypt encryption
  • WD MyBook JMS561 bridge chip encryption
  • SATA bridge controller encryption JMS538, SW6316, JMicron, Initio 1607E and Oxford OXUF943SE
  • Linux eCryptFS and Fscrypt

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