Data Recovery from Defective or Spoiled Storage Hardware

Professional hard drive data recovery from crashed, broken, dropped, noisy, clicking, corrupt, formatted, deleted, re-loaded, burnt, fire damaged, power and lightning surge damaged, water damaged, virus damaged, crushed PC and external USB hard drives - that is irrespective of the condition of the media and/or potential data loss situation.

Please do not hesitate in contacting us should you require a professional hard drive data recovery service.

Recovery from all hard disk manufacturers, including:

Apple Mac, Compaq, Conner, Dell, Fujitsu (Fujitsu specific issue), Fujitsu (all models), Hitachi, Hitachi Travelstar, Hitachi Deskstar, Hitachi Ultrastar, HP, IBM, Maxtor, Quantum, Samsung, Seagate, Sun, Toshiba, Western Digital

Data Recovery from these and other possible causes:

• Grinding or clacking noises, normally associated with electro-mechanical failure.
• Drive not detected after being dropped - making a knocking sound or not spinning.
• Drive not working after a power failure, power surge or lightning.
• Burnt, cracked, water damaged, even drives that have been in a bomb blast.
• Faulty printed circuit board (PCB).
• Corrupted, Formatted, Fdisked, re-loaded, virus damage...
• Permanently deleted files, bypassing the recycle bin.

Typical crashed drive symptoms and error messages:

• Primary hard disk failure / Secondary hard disk failure.
• Inaccessible boot device.
• Unable to access drive "X".
• Disk error, press any key.
• Device not ready, reading drive "X".
• The drive no longer recognized by the BIOS after rebooting, despite the platters spinning.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 disk and press any key to continue.

Recovery from all hard disk media types including:

• Laptop 2.5", 1.8", and 1.5", Hybrid, Micro, USB, Firewire and portable hard disk drive
• PC 3.5" IDE, EIDE, SATA, PATA, Serial attached storage, USB and Firewire hard disk drive
• SCSI/SAS hard disk drive (server)
• RAID, multi-boot, striped, spanned, simple volume
• Fiber channel
• RLL, MFM, ST hard disk
• ESDI
• PCMCIA
• Microdrive

Computer forensics is simply the application of computer investigation and analysis techniques in the interests of determining potential legal evidence.

Evidence might be sought in a wide range of computer crime or misuse, including but not limited to theft of trade secrets, theft of or destruction of intellectual property, and fraud.

Our Computer specialists can draw on an array of methods for discovering data that resides in a computer system, or recovering deleted, encrypted, or damaged file information. Any or all of this information may help during discovery, depositions, or actual litigation

Who can use computer Forensic Evidence?

Many types of criminal and civil proceedings can and do make use of evidence revealed by computer forensics specialists:

• Criminal Prosecutors use computer evidence in a variety of crimes where incriminating documents can be found: homicides, financial fraud, drug and embezzlement record-keeping, and child pornography.
• Civil litigations can readily make use of personal and business records found on computer systems that bear on: fraud, divorce, discrimination, and harassment cases.
• Insurance Companies may be able to mitigate costs by using discovered computer evidence of possible fraud in accident, arson, and workman's compensation cases.
• Corporations often hire computer forensics specialists to ascertain evidence relating to: sexual harassment, embezzlement, theft or misappropriation of trade secrets and other internal/confidential information.
• Law Enforcement Officials frequently require assistance in pre-search warrant preparations and post-seizure handling of the computer equipment.

Individuals sometimes hire computer forensics specialists in support of possible claims of: wrongful termination, sexual harassment, or age discrimination

File Recovery

We recover data from corrupt, lost, deleted and virus infected data files - that is irrespective of the condition of the file and/or potential data loss situation.

List of most common recoverable file types:

• Microsoft database files
• Access (.mdb).
• SQL (.mdf, .dat)
• Microsoft Visual FoxPro (.dbf)
• Microsoft mail files
• Outlook (.pst)
• Outlook Express (.mbx, .dbx)
• Exchange Server (.edb, .stm)
• Exchange (.ost)
• MS Mail
• Microsoft office files -
• Excel (.xls)
• Word (.doc)
• PowerPoint (.ppt)
• Publisher (.pub)

• Microsoft works files -
• Microsoft Works documents (.wps)
• Microsoft Works spreadsheets (.xlr)
• Microsoft Works databases (.wdb)
• Microsoft money files (.mny)
• WinZip files (.zip)
• Paradox databases (.db)
• Interbase and Firebird databases (.gdb, .ib, .fdb)
• dBase and FoxBASE databases (.fpt)
• Oracle databases and backups from Oracle 8i