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  • left-quotesMy external drive fell off my table when my dog ran over the cable and hooked the power cord with one of its hind legs, all I heard was a thud as the drive fell on the floor...”
  • left-quotesI don’t know what exactly happened, but my laptop just gave me a blue screen, and I heard ‘clicking noises’ coming from my laptop...”
  • left-quotesI added a new drive to my computer and accidentally formatted the wrong drive when I restarted my machine, all my data was gone...”
  • left-quotesI was on my way to work, as I was packing my car I forgot to put my laptop bag in the boot and reversed over it...”
  • left-quotesMy son wanted storage space to store one of the games he was playing on his PlayStation, he took my work external hard drive and inserted it into the PlayStation...”
  • left-quotesWe have an assembly line run by an ancient computer system, we could not replace the system as the developers moved on - the drive now crashed with the entire assembly coming to a standstill...”
  • left-quotesA phone recording proving a client lied about certain details about a very large claim that got deleted from one of our consultant’s mailboxes on our PBX system...”
  • left-quotesWe lost all our family photos when a virus deleted files from our computer...”

Hard Drive Recovery

 

Hard Drive Data Recovery and Digital Forensics

We can help you with advanced data recovery and digital forensic investigations from all types of hard disk drives, including PC, laptop, SCSI, SAS, SSD and USB hard drives - irrespective of the condition of the media and/or potential data loss situation.

Whether your hard drive suffers from an electro-mechanical (hardware) failure, ransomware attack or logical (software) failure, our team of professionals will do everything possible to help you recover or investigate your lost data.

We Recover And Investigate Data From These, And All Other Crashed Drive Symptoms And Error Messages:

Some everyday situations and error messages that would suggest that your drive might be suffering from one or more failures or other potential data loss scenarios:

  • Your hard drive is no longer recognized by the operating system or BIOS. 
  • Your hard drive was detected by the BIOS/operating system but reported as unreadable.
  • Your hard drive makes strange/funny sounds when power is applied.
  • The hard disk drive is not spinning despite power being applied.
  • Primary hard disk failure / Secondary hard disk failure.
  • Cannot read from the source file or disk
  • Inaccessible boot device.
  • Unable to access drive "X".
  • Disk error: press any key.
  • The device is not ready, reading drive "X".
  • Operating system not found/missing operating system.
  • The BIOS recognizes the drive but with garbage parameters.
  • The BIOS recognizes the drive, but the data is inaccessible.
  • The drive reports bad sectors.
  • NTLDR is missing; press any key to restart.
  • Replace the disk and press any key to continue.
  • The drive reads some data but reports cyclic redundancy checking (crc) errors.

We Recover and Investigate Data From Most Operating Systems, File Systems And Partitions Types, Including:

  • All versions of MS-DOS
  • 12-bit FAT (FAT12)
  • 16-Bit FAT (FAT 16)
  • 32 Bit FAT (FAT 32)
  • Extensible File Allocation Table (exFAT)
  • New Technology File System (NTFS)
  • New Technology File System version 5 (NTFS 5)
  • Windows NT3.5, Windows NT4, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2022
  • Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 and Windows 11
  • Microsoft Live File System - Universal Disk Format (UDF) - CD/DVD media
  • Resilient File System (ReFS) - Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012
  • Second, third and fourth extended file system (EXT2, EXT3 and EXT4) - Linux
  • Reiser File System (ReiserFS) - Linux
  • Linux distributions and versions, including Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Red Hat Linux (RHEL), SUSE Linux, Oracle Linux, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, SLES, Arch Linux, Slackware, VzLinux, True NAS, AlmaLinux, Photon OS etc.
  • B-tree file system (Btrfs) - Linux
  • Macintosh File System (MFS), Hierarchical File System (HFS), Mac OS Extended (HFS+), HPFS, Apple file system (APFS), ISO9660
  • UNIX File System (UFS1 and UFS2) - Mac, Unix
  • Journaled File System (legacy JFS) and Enhanced Journaled File System (JFS2) - IBM AIX and Linux
  • Virtual drives - VMware (VMFS), DD, IMG, BIN, VHD, VHDX, E01, ESX(i) volumes
  • Novell Storage Services (NSS) and NetWare File System (NWFS)
  • HP-UX VxFS version 6 and below
  • Symantec Storage Foundation
  • SUN/Oracle ZFS
  • OpenVMS
  • ISO 9660 - CD-ROM
  • LYNX OS (LynxFS)
  • High-Performance File System (HPFS) - OS2
  • Yet Another Flash File System - Yaffs2

We Recover And Investigate 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
  • External 3.5"/2.5" hard disk drives - USB 1.0, USB 2.0, USB 3.0, 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
  • Microdrive

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