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  • Western Digital Passport Recovery: USB 2.0 2.5in enclosures
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Professional hard drive recovery service.

Fasttrack priority service direct lines:

Main data recovery lab: New Jersey
ship to: 46 Church St., 2nd floor
South Orange, NJ 07079
Tel: (201) 261-2312

Montreal Data Recovery
ship to: 4000 de Maisoneuve W., #613
Montreal, Quebec H3Z 1J9
Tel: (514) 238-4090

Class 100 Clean Room
Head Amplifier replacement
Head Stack, Failed Head replacement
Hard Drive controller PCB Repair
hard-to-find Hard Drive parts supplier
Complete hard drive recovery service.

  • Fire / Smoke / Heat damage
  • Flood / Water damage
  • Power outage / Power surge failure
  • Hard drive crash, head failure, electronic failure, hardware malfunction.
  • Accidental format / User error
  • Employee / Intruder intentional sabotage, vandalism
  • Family / Spouse forensic investigation.

 
  • Raid 0 Data Recovery: striped non-redundant 2 or more hard drive(s)
  • Raid 1 Rebuilding: Mirrored set redundant array of 2 hard drive(s)
  • Raid 5 Data Recovery: striped parity and data information across 3 or more hard drive(s)
  • Raid 10 Recovery: Raid 0 coupled with Raid 1 for redundancy on 4 hard drive(s)
  • Windows Raid Repair: Software level Raid created with Dynamic hard disk arrays.
  • Linux Raid Reconstruction and Recovery: MDADM standard or advanced raid setup.
  • SAN Recovery: NFS, SMB/CIFS
  • NAS Recovery: FreeNAS, NASLite, Nexenta, OpenSolaris, GNU, NFS SMB/CIFS
  • SNAP Server Recovery
  • Dell Server Perc Raid Data Recovery
  • Adaptec Raid Data Recovery
All External USB hard drive units contain one or more standard hard disk drives like Western Digital, Maxtor, Seagate, Samsung, etc. depending on the manufacturer of the USB 2.0 hard drive enclosure. Lacie USB and Firewire enclosures may be a RAID 0 configuration extending the total capacity of the disks to double or quadruple capacity.

For example:
- LaCie Little Big Disk Quadra has 4 250 GB hard disk drives formatted RAID 0 to one Terabyte capacity.

  • Advantages: Increased speed.
  • Disadvantages: Statistical probability of unit failure is 4X greater than a single 1TB hard drive.
  • Common failures: Knocking over the drive.

- Maxtor One Touch external USB 2, FireWire hard drive:

  • Advantages: External storage space.
  • Disadvantages: Too easy to knock it over, lousy heat dissipation can cause electronic failure due to overheating.

- Western Digital Passport USB 2.0, 250GB hard drive:

  • Advantages: Contains a 2.5 inch laptop hard drive, heads park off the platter surfaces, very sturdy, very transportable.

Hard Drive Recovery Video

Explanation of hard drive data recovery procedures for most hard drive failure situations.

Disclaimer: We do not suggest you try these procedures on critical data, these should be only be done by experienced data recovery professionals in a proper Class 100 Clean Room. This YouTube video is for informative purposes only.

Although this information is accurate, hard drive units are very delicate and can be damaged beyond the point of any further recovery if damage should occur to the surface of the platters or the alignment of the individual disks inside the hard drive case is disturbed.

We service all file systems and operating systems, all Windows flavors, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000 Professional and Server, Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2008 Server, Windows Vista, Mac, Novell, Linux, Unix etc...

Our Hard Drive Recovery engineers are Class 100 clean room certified and C++ software designers able to create all necessary tools to recover all data available when the file system is too corrupted to recover lost files.

We have an abundant supply of hard drive spare parts and many suppliers of used and hard to find hard drive parts to compliment our inventory in case there is a need for compatible spare parts to get the customer hard drive functioning after a computer crash.

Call us to setup for a free data recovery evaluation:
New Jersey Tel: (201) 261-2312
Montreal Tel: (514) 238-4090

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