eDiscovery and Data Services

Hard Drive & Data Storage Device Recovery

Hard drive data recovery involves replacing failed components such as read/write heads, head assemblies, magnets and drive motors in a clean environment.

In most cases, the recovery process involves restructuring of the data by examining the low-level data sectors and determining what fixes to file system structures are needed to access the data.

Using highly sophisticated techniques and proprietary equipment and software, our engineers are able to fix and recover data from raw images of all operating systems.

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Typical Hard Drive Recovery Situations
  • Hard disk failure
  • Failed components (read/write heads, head assemblies, magnets, drive motors, etc)
  • Drives that have been formatted or overwritten
  • Corrupt or missing critical file system structures
  • File deletion
  • Application crash
  • Computer viruses and worms
  • Partitioning or boot-up problems
  • Damage due to a power failure or surge
Data Storage Devices
  • All Hard Drive types, models and sizes including IBM Microdrives.
  • Currently manufactured models: Seagate, Maxtor, IBM, Western Digital, Fujitsu, Quantum, Toshiba, Hitachi, and others.
  • Out of manufacture models: Kalok, JTS, Connor Xebec, Imprimis, Miniscribe, Micropolis, Microscience, Rodime, and others.
  • Floppy disks 3.5", 5.25", 8", and other media such as 120M SuperDisk, CDR/W, Optical and Worm, Iomega ZIP and JAZ, Syquest.
  • RAID arrays
Operating Systems and Platforms
  • Windows XP, NT, 2000, ME, 98, 95, 3.x (Fat16, Fat32)
  • All MS-DOS, and PC-DOS versions (Fat12, Fat16)
  • OS/2, OS/2 Warp
  • All Novell Netware versions (NFS)
  • All MacOS versions
  • Sun OS
  • CP/M
  • SCO UNIX, XENIX, SGI Irix, AIX, Linux

Hard drives under manufacturer's warranty, that require clean room stabilization due to physical failures, still carry the warranty. eMag's clean room facilities do not void the warranty, and the drive can be replaced.