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IBM Hard Disk Drive Model No.s include:-
22GXP, 34GXP, 37GP, 40GV, 75GXP, 60GXP,
120GXP, IC35L120AVVA07, IC35L100AVVA07,
IC35L080AVVA07, IC35L060AVVA07, IC35L040AVVA07,
IC35L020AVVA07 IC35L060AVER07, IC35L040AVER07,
IC35L030AVER07, IC35L020AVER07, IC35L010AVER07
DTLA-307075, DTLA-307060, DTLA-307045,
DTLA-307030, DTLA-307020, DTLA-307015,
DTLA-305040, DTLA-305030, DTLA-305020,
DTLA-305010 DPTA-373420, DPTA-372730,
DPTA-372050, DPTA-371360, DPTA-353750,
DPTA-353000, DPTA-352250, DPTA-351500
DJNA-372200, DJNA-371800, DJNA-371350,
DJNA-370910,DJNA-352500, DJNA-352030,
DJNA-351520, DJNA-351010
IBM RAID-0 Stripe Array Data Recovery
IBM RAID-1 Mirror Array Data Recovery
IBM RAID-5 Striped Array Data Recovery
IBM JBOD Array Data Recovery
IBM Hard disk IDE ATA drives, Serial-ATA SATA drive repairs
What happens when we repair a Hard Drive / Hard Disc /
Hard Disk?
Apex Technology provide a Professional Hard Disk Drive Repair and Data Recovery
Service. We have the specialist hardware to fix your IBM HardDisk / HardDisc / HardDrive and recover the data from the drive.
Although the harddisk undergoes repair, we never recommend using them again
for data storage.
Usually by the time a IBM hard drive reaches us it is the last chance to recover the data
from it. The hard disk undergoes repair purely to extract
the data from it. We repair all types of faulty hard disks, mechanical, electronic,
software, virus, firmware problems. We repair Desktop & Laptop Notebook
Hard disk drives IDE ATA drives, Serial-ATA SATA drive repairs.
When is it time to call a specialist Hard Disk Drive Repair Centre?
There are various
faults that you may observe during the harddrive or harddisc operation.
Discs can go faulty, we have seen many cases including smoke, firmware, dropped drives. This section contains useful information on diagnosing
Hard Disk Drive faults. Also included is a list of hard
disk drives which we have fixed and any useful
data sheets on Hard Disk Drives.
Cost of Data Recovery or Hard Disk / Disc
or File repair
For more information on our Data Recovery or Hard Disk Drive Repair capabilities
and pricing please click
here
We recover data in the UK from the following Hard Disks
Western Digital, Fujitsu, IBM, Hitachi, Toshiba, Quantum, Seagate, Lacie, Conner,
TEAC, Samsung, Kalok, Iomega
Click
here to see a list of disks we recover data when they are not recognised in
BIOS
Lacie Carte Orange USB Disk Drive Data Recovery
Lacie 80GB 160GB 200GB 250GB 320G 400GB 500GB Serial ATA SATA
Lacie Companion Hard Drive, Design by F.A. Porsche 250GB USB 2.0
Firewire USB2.0 Firewire Desktop Mini, Big Disk Extreme, Bigger Disk Extreme
Common Faults observed in Hard Disk Drives -
Failure - Failed - Dead!
Defective Hard Disk Drive Heads
Commonly known as the 'Click of Death'. Your hard drive is on its way out, along
with your data. One of the noisy hd faults.
A common fault which is usually easy to spot. When the drive is initially powered
up, a logic check ensures that the drive has attained the necessary speed before
launching the heads across the platter. If the drive can not attain a 'Ready'
state, the logic is repeated for a pre-determined number of times causing a
clicking sound, after which it stops trying.Your IBM hard disk drive now appears dead.
Do not run 'software' recovery programs
in this state. They cause Disk I/O read / writes, and
this places increased stress on the heads, which causes
errors to be written to the disk, further decreasing
the chances of data recovery.
Crashed Hard Disk Drive Heads
The hard drive is most likely making a grinding and scraping noise. Think dentist
drill, its painful, and thats how it feels for your drive. Sounds nasty and
is stripping the magnetic coating off the platters. Immediately turn the drive
off and disconnect it from your computer. Then call us. Repeated use in this
state is rapidly decreasing the chances of recovery. The sooner we can start
the recovery, the greater the chance of success before it totally corrupts the
hard drive data platter.
Again, do not run 'software' recovery
programs in this state. They cause Disk I/O read / writes,
and this places increased stress on the heads, which
causes errors to be written to the disk, further decreasing
the chances of data recovery.
Hard Disk Drive Motor Failure
The motor spins usually between 4200rpm upwards to around 15000rpm in todays
higher end desktop drives. It is precisely controlled to enable synchronisation
for reading the data off the platters. It fails in two main ways. The first
is fairly obvious, it simply doesn't spin or won't start. You can usually feel
a slight vibration or hear a humming sound on the drive when it powers up. If
you can't then it is likely the motor isn't spinning. Erratic speed variations
of the motor may cause the drive to take an extended period of time to come
to the 'Ready' state. Prolonged or repeatedly powering the drives could well
cause further damage. Disconnect the drive and give us a call for recovery of
the data from the drive.
Again, do not run 'software' recovery
programs in this state. They cause Disk I/O read / writes,
and this places increased stress on the heads, which
causes errors to be written to the disk, further decreasing
the chances of data recovery.
Hard Disk Drive not seen in BIOS
You may wonder what the BIOS is? BIOS stands for Basic Input/Output System
and in simple terms it provides a set of instructions to your computer, telling
it how to start, and interface to the first 'Boot' device. When it has reached
the first boot device, it can receive further instructions from there, and eventually
load your operating system. During the start-up, the BIOS may have failed to
detect the Hard Drive, and therefore is not shown. First check all connections
and try again.
If it still won't work, then the recognition failure may be caused by a number
of factors, eg corrupt boot sector, however, at startup on your computer you
can tell whether the drive is being seen by the system BIOS. Power up the computer,
and look for the on-screen instruction to tell you how to enter the BIOS. Usually
this is achieved by pressing F1, F2 or DEL keys. Examine the menus for options
on viewing the BIOS IDE peripheral setup and set your BIOS to automatically
detect IDE drives. On some BIOSes there is an option to "automatically
detect hard drives now". If you run this option and the computer 'hangs'
or appears inactive for a a minute or more then it is likely that your Hard
Disk Drive had failed to be recognised by the system BIOS.
Useful Data Sheets on Hard Disk Drives
We recover data and repair the
following Hard Disk Drives
Western Digital, Fujitsu, IBM, Hitachi, Toshiba, Quantum, Seagate, Conner, TEAC,
Samsung, Kalok, Iomega
Click
here to see a list of hard disks we recover data from
or repair when they are not recognised in BIOS
Hard
Disk Drive Knowledgebase and Database
Fujitsu
MPG3 series Hard Drive Data Sheets
Fujitsu
MPF3 series Hard Drive Data Sheets
Desktop Laptop Notebook USB & Firewire IEEE1394 harddisks
We recover desktop and laptop notebook harddisks, master/slave discdrives, USB
Firewire hard discs, and have our own Class 100 clean room facilities as required
by harddisc manufacturers for rebuilding failed drives.
Repair / Recover fix Mechanical / Electrical / Firmware
Hard Diskdrive Problems
Hard Disk Drive not recognised in BIOS. Dropped harddiscs, smoking harddrives!
Hard Disk Drive Noisy, Clicking, Scraping, Sound. Disc Drive Head crashes.
Repair / Recover from following Operating File Systems
Data recovery for FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems.
Recover from partitions, even if the boot sector or FAT has been erased or damaged
(does not work with the NTFS file system)
Recover files with the original time and date stamp
Recover files on network drives
Recover from all Win 95, Win 98, Win ME, NT 4.0, Windows™ XP and Windows™
2000 systems.
Recover / retrieve files in the following situations
- Corruption of file systems FAT
- Corrupt Files
- Recycle Bin emptied or files were deleted without Recycle Bin
- Hardware or software failures
- Power failure
- HDD (Hard Disk Drive) not recognised in BIOS, computer not detecting harddiscs
- Virus attack
- Formatted Hard drives
- System shutdown
- Partitioning or boot-up sector problems
- Controller pcb Board failure / burnt
- Discdrive making repeated clicking sound
- No spin on diskdrive motor
- Forgotten or Lost Password removal from Hard Disk
Main
Locations covered for Hard Disk
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We have undertaken
Hard Disk Drive repairs & data
recovery throughout the UK from Brighton,
London, Birmingham and Manchester.
Hard
Disk Drive Data Recovery covers
Brighton, London, Manchester, Birmingham, Oxford, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Cheshire,
Derbyshire, North West, West Midlands, Walsall, Wolverhampton, Stafford, Newcastle
under Lyme, Stoke on Trent, Stone, Burton on Trent, Lichfield, Shrewsbury, Telford,
Newport, Cannock, Rugeley, Uttoxeter, Keele, Trentham, Blythe Bridge, Cheadle,
Barlaston, Festival Park, Hastings, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, Tamworth,
Bedford, Cambridge, Northampton, Milton Keynes, Cambridgeshire, Peterborough,
Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Middlesex, Norfolk, Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Northamptonshire,
Nottinghamshire, Warwickshire, Atherstone, Stevenage, Luton, Hemel Hempstead,
Glasgow, Scotland, Edinburgh, Fort William, Dundee, Perth, Stirling, Paisley,
Dumfries, Elgin, Peterhead, Fraserburgh, Oban, Basildon, Romford, Chelmsford,
Benfleet, Southampton, Edgbaston, Islington, Macclesfield, Bridgnorth, Bradford,
Sheffield, Leeds, Yorkshire, Fife, Kircaldy, Suffolk, Thetford, Bury St.Edmunds,
Ipswich, Newcastle upon Tyne, South Shields, Sunderland, Northumbria, Middlesborough,
Hartlepool, Preston, Darlington, Rotherham, Penrith, Workington, Lancaster, Durham,
Barrow in Furness, Gateshead, Carlisle, Teeside, Stockton on Tees, Erith, Kent,
Ashford, Northhants, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, Bristol, Swindon, Bournemouth,
Plymouth, Hastings, Maidstone, Southend on sea, Aberdeen, Inverness, Bridgnorth,
Flakirk, Cardiff, Swansea, Chester, Liverpool, Blackpool, Aberystwyth, Wrexham,
Carmarthen, Hull, Norwich, Gloucester, Bridgend, Torquay, Bath, Cantebury, Portsmouth,
Exeter, AbuDhabi, Dubai, Sharajah, Belgium, Epsom, Surrey, Northern Ireland, Belfast,
Dublin, Londonderry, Armagh, Cork
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edited by Howard Atherton
| Hitachi Perpendicular Data Storage Technology |
| 25/03/2007, Register.co.uk |
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Hitachi achieves industry-leading areal densities via Perpendicular Recording. That probably does not mean a lot to you! Seagate, Hitachi and Toshiba have all worked on this technology for some time, and cross-own the patents on it, according to Rob Pait, Seagate's director of consumer storage marketing.
It basically means they have found a way to pack approximately 10 times the hard drive capacity on to the same size disk. I know what you are thinking… wow that’s great but my computer is still the size of the waste bin so why would I be interested. The target hard drives will be used in MP3 music players, mobile phones, cars, handheld computers, personal video recorders (PVRs).
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| WD Caviar® Hard Drives WhisperDrive™ and SoftSeek™ Technologies |
| 30/01/2007, Western Digital .com |
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Heat is the hard drive killer. Users tend to increase case cooling at the expense of noisy fans and annoying hums. Western Digital have announced an enhancement to their WD Caviar® family of hard drives, which have significantly lower opertaing temperatures. Their next-generation desktop-class drives also offer customers quiet operation, higher performance and larger capacity. Rotating at 7,200 RPM in capacities up to 320 GB, and offering either the EIDE or Serial ATA interfaces, the new WD Caviar products are available now in the distribution
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| Apple Mac Data Recovery HFS & HFS+ File Systems |
| 26/02/2007, Apex Technology |
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Apex Technology are pleased to provide the new facility to recover data for Apple Mac users. Whether you own a Mac G3, G4, G5 or you lost your data on CD DVD USB or Firewire device, we have the equipment to bring your data back.
All your hard work for Graphics, Images, Photographs and Multimedia video files need not be lost forever. We recover from HFS and HFS+ file systems and CD’s and DVD’s formatted in the Apple Mac Superdrive. We can return your data burnt to an Apple Mac formatted DVD+-R.
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| Fujitsu HandyDrive 2.5 |
| 31/01/2007, Fujitsu.com |
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Fujitsu launches new external 2.5" HandyDrive. The attractive new HandyDrive from Fujitsu comes in capacity points of 40BG, 60GB, 80GB and 100GB and offers users the ability to transfer large amounts of data, for use as a temporary backup solution or for storing and running software applications. The drive is bus powered via the high speed USB 2.0 interface and is compatible with PC, Apple Mac and Notebooks.
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| Fujitsu MHU2100AT hard disk drive |
| 30/11/2006, Fujitsu .com |
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Fujitsu Europe Ltd, suppliers of computer hard disk drives, announced its next generation MHU2100AT 2.5" 9.5mm mobile hard disk drive to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). Fujitsu's new mobile hard disk drive offers up to 100GB of capacity and nearly a 30% increase in areal density allowing manufacturers to design next generation portable computing and consumer applications.
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| Toshiba's 0.85 inch Hard Disk Drive |
| 10/11/2006, Digital Photography .com |
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Toshiba is the pioneer of high capacity, small form factor HDD. The company's current 1.8-inch HDD, the storage device of choice for some of the hottest portable gadgets on the market, has allowed manufacturers to deliver unprecedented functionality to exciting new mobile entertainment products, including palmtops, ultraportable notebook PCs, handheld GPS units, and digital audio players and jukeboxes.
With the new drive, only a quarter the size of a 1.8-inch drive, Toshiba achieves a hard drive with an initial capacity of 2 to 4 GB, and deliver enhanced data storage to smaller, lighter more efficient products. Toshiba expects the new hard drive to bring the functionality and versatility of HDD to a wide range of devices, including mobile phones, digital camcorders and external storage devices. Toshiba's HDD is inspiring manufacturers to develop new applications.
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| 400GB Deskstar Hitachi GST |
| 30/10/2006, Hitachi.com |
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Hitachi launch the Deskstar 7k400 with 400GB capacity! That means 45 hours of HDTV broadcast, 400,000 x-rays,
40,000 typical library books, or
100,000 high-quality, MP3 recordings. DVD jukeboxes become a possibility. With 3 data platters and six read / write heads a new data recovery headache is born!
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| Seagate 5GB pocket Drive & 100GB portable drive |
| 26/10/2006, Seagate.com |
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Seagate USB 2.0 Pocket Hard Drive
The new Seagate USB 2.0 Pocket Hard Drive is the biggest small hard drive on the planet. Safely encased in its sleek palm-sized shell, it's as convenient as a USB thumb drive yet offers an incredible 5GB of storage for transporting or quickly backing up a huge amount of data, pictures, audio or video files. Seagate USB2.0 Portable External Hard Drive
The Seagate Portable External Hard Drive offers fantastic news for consumers that need easy access to large data, video, digital music, presentations and multimedia files on-the-go and on-the-desktop. With a small, blazing fast 5,400-rpm hard drive inside, the Seagate Portable External Hard Drive delivers up to 100-Gbytes of storage - the highest capacity of any hard drive in its class - in a small, attractive footprint just bigger than an index card. This USB bus-powered external drive offers high shock resistance and low power consumption to conserve laptop battery life.
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| LaCie Ultra Mobile Hard Drive 100GB Dual Interface |
| 19/10/2006, PR Web.com |
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LaCie announces a boost in capacity of its Mobile Hard Drive Designed by FA Porsche to 100GB with improved 7200rpm speeds and dual FireWire and USB 2.0 interfaces for use on both Mac and PCs. This ultra portable drive weighs less than a deck of cards and is just as small for easy transport. “The LaCie Mobile Hard Drive is designed for ultimate portability with drive speed options to fit any need,” says Olivier Mirloup, LaCie Senior Product Manager. “My 100GB LaCie Mobile Hard Drive is enough to completely back up my internal laptop drive, archive my personal song collection, view all my family photo albums, store and play several MPEG movies, and easily access client presentations while traveling.”
Versatile Storage Solution
LaCie's Mobile Hard Drive can be used to back up important files while on the road, share information with clients and friends, and simply shuttle data from one location to another. No driver or software installation is required for those running Mac OS X and Windows XP/2000, offering true plug-and-play convenience. LaCie Mobile Hard Drives are bus-powered for people using standard FireWire or USB-equipped computers, meaning no extra AC adapter to carry on the road*.
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| Sony launches innovative digital imaging storage drive |
| 19/10/2006, Sony.com |
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Sony announced an innovative digital imaging storage solution to its “photo storage” range of PC recording media. Offering 40GB capacity, the HARD DISK PHOTO STORAGE drive (HDPS-M1) is the next logical step in the portable storage with the ability to store up to 26,000 high resolution digital photos(1) and other data on the go.
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