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Seagate SATA Barracuda
Momentus Laptop Notebook 2.5" SATA
Hard Drives (including from Dell RAID
systems rebuild & repair), USB Firewire
Seagate Barracuda SATA Serial
ATA Data Recovery Repair ST3120211AS ST3120811AS
ST3120813AS ST3160215AS ST3160811AS ST3160812AS
ST3160815AS ST3200820AS ST3200827AS ST3250620AS
ST3250820AS ST3250824AS ST3300620AS ST3300622AS
ST3300820AS ST3320620AS ST3320820AS ST3400620AS
ST3400633AS ST3400820AS ST3400820NS ST340211AS
ST3500630AS ST3500630NS ST3500641AS ST3500830AS
ST3500830NS ST3750640AS ST3750640NS ST3750840AS
ST3750840NS ST380211AS ST380215AS ST3808110AS
ST380811AS ST380815AS
Seagate NL35 Series SATA Serial ATA ST3250620NS
ST3250623NS ST3250624NS ST3250820NS ST3250823NS
ST3250824NS ST3400620NS
ST3400632NS ST3400633NS ST3400832NS ST3400833NS
ST3500641NS
ST3500841NS
Seagate Momentus Laptop Notebook
2.5" SATA Serial ATA ST910021AS
ST9100824AS ST9120821AS ST93811AS ST94813AS ST96023AS
ST96812AS ST980825AS ST98823AS
Seagate SAS Cheetah 15K.4 ST3146854SS
ST336754SS ST373454SS
Seagate SAS Savvio ST936701SS ST973401SS
Seagate Barracuda PATA ATA IDE
Data Recovery Repair ST3120213A
ST3120814A ST3160212A ST3160215A ST3160812A ST3160815A
ST3200820A ST3200827A ST3250620A ST3250624A ST3250820A
ST3250823A ST3250824A ST3300620A ST3300622A ST3300820A
ST3300831A ST3320620A ST3320820A ST340014A ST340015A
ST340015ACE ST3400620A ST3400633A ST3400820A ST3400832A
ST3402111A ST3500630A ST3500641A ST3500830A ST3750640A
ST3750840A ST380011A ST3802110A ST380215A
Seagate Momentus PATA ATA IDE
Data Recovery Repair ST910021A
ST9100822A ST9100823A ST9100824A ST9100825A ST9100828A
ST9120821A ST9120822A ST9120824A ST9160821A ST930218A
ST93811A ST9402112A ST940815A ST94813A ST96023A
ST960812A ST960815A ST960821A ST960822A ST96812A
ST980815A ST9808210A ST9808211A ST980825A ST980829A
ST98823A
Seagate DiamondMax 20 PATA ATA
IDE Data Recovery Repair STM3160212A STM3160812A
STM3200827A STM3250623A STM3250624A STM3300622A
STM3402111A STM3802110A
Seagate DiamondMax 21 PATA ATA
IDE Data Recovery Repair
STM3200820A STM3250620A STM3250820A STM3300620A
STM3320820A
Seagate MobileMax PATA ATA IDE
Data Recovery Repair
STM940215A STM960212A STM980215A
Segate series U4 U5 U6 U8 U10
Medalist
ST380020A, ST360020A, ST340810A, ST320410A, ST340823A,
ST330621A, ST320413A, ST315311A, ST310211A, ST320423A,
ST315323A, ST310212A, ST317221A, ST313021A, ST38410A,
ST3413A, ST38421A, ST36421A, ST34311A, ST32112A
ST38641A, ST36531A, ST34321A, ST32110A, ST33232A,
ST32532A, ST31722A, ST31720A, ST31277A, ST31276A,
ST31012A, ST3853A, ST3852A, ST3636A ST32140A,
ST51270A, ST51080A, ST5851A, ST5540A ST9810AG,
ST9630AG ST9816AG, ST9546AG ST9655AG, ST9550AG,
ST9385AG, ST9300AG, ST9240AG, ST9150AG ST3850A
ST3630À ST3660A, ST3295A ST3491A, ST3391A, ST3250A
ST3290A, ST3243A, ST3145A, ST3123A ST3655A, ST3550A,
ST3390A, ST3385A, ST3285A, ST3283A ST3144A, ST3120A,
ST3096A ST1144A, ST1102A ST351A/X ST157A
Seagate® USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive
Data Recovery
USB 2.0 ST90000U2
USB 2.0 40GB ST940801U2-RK
USB 2.0 60GB ST960801U2-RK
USB 2.0 80GB ST980211U2-RK
USB 2.0 80GB ST980801U2-RK
USB 2.0 100GB ST9100801U2-RK
USB 2.0 120GB ST9120801U2-RK
USB 2.0 160GB ST9160821U2-RK
Seagate® Mirra™ Personal Server
Ethernet 320GB ST3320833ET-RK
Ethernet 500GB ST3500841ET-RK
Seagate FreeAgent™ Pro
FireWire400, USB 2.0, eSATA 320GB ST303204FPA1E3-RK
FireWire400, USB 2.0, eSATA 500GB ST305004FPA1E3-RK
FireWire400, USB 2.0, eSATA 750GB ST307504FPA1E3-RK
USB 2.0 & eSATA 320GB ST303204FPA1E2-RK
USB 2.0 & eSATA 500GB ST305004FPA1E2-RK
USB 2.0 & eSATA 750GB ST307504FPA1E2-RK
Seagate FreeAgent™ Desktop Drive
USB 2.0 250GB ST302504FDA1E1-RK
USB 2.0 320GB ST303204FDA1E1-RK
USB 2.0 500GB ST305004FDA1E1-RK
Seagate 3.5-inch Pushbutton Backup External
Hard Drives
Combo USB 2.0/Firewire 200GB ST3200823A-RK
Combo USB 2.0/Firewire 300GB ST3300601CB-RK
Combo USB 2.0/Firewire 400GB ST3400601CB-RK
Combo USB 2.0/Firewire 500GB ST3500641CB-RK
Combo USB 2.0/Firewire 500GB ST3500841CB-RK
Combo USB 2.0/Firewire 750GB ST3750640CB-RK
USB 2.0 250GB ST3250601U2-RK
USB 2.0 300GB ST3300601U2-RK
USB 2.0 400GB ST3400601U2-RK
USB 2.0 500GB ST3500642U2-RK
USB 2.0 650GB ST3650640U2-RK
Seagate 3.5-inch External Storage Hard Drive
USB 2.0 80GB ST380203U2-RK
USB 2.0 120GB ST3120203U2-RK
USB 2.0 160GB ST3160203U2-RK
USB 2.0 160GB ST3160812U2-RK
USB 2.0 250GB ST3250824U2-RK
USB 2.0 320GB ST3320820U2-RK
Seagate® eSATA External Hard Drives
SATA NCQ 300GB ST3300601XS-RK
SATA NCQ 500GB ST3500601XS-RK
Seagate® Pocket Hard Drives
USB 2.0 2.5GB ST625211U-RK
USB 2.0 5GB ST650211U-RK
USB 2.0 6GB ST660211U-RK
USB 2.0 8GB ST68022U-RK
Seagate FreeAgent™ Go
USB 2.0 80GB ST900803FGA1E1-RK
USB 2.0 120GB ST901203FGA1E1-RK
USB 2.0 160GB ST901603FGA1E1-RK
Seagate FreeAgent™ Go Small
USB 2.0 12GB ST600121GSA1E1-RK
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 Seagate HDD 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 Seagate HDD 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
Buffalo Tera-Station NAS XFS 0.6TB, 1.0TB, 2.0TB
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 Seagate HDD 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. Perhaps due to a power surge, spark or
incorectly plugging the power lead in. 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.
Power Surge, Reversed Polarity, Power Supply plugged in the wrong way around
This is a frequent occurence - particularly plugging the power lead in the wrong
way around. Despite the shape of the molex connector, the cheaper versions are
often made of soft plastic and can easily be plugged in incorrectly. Often this
results in the drive appearing totally dead with no noise coming from the motor
and an unpleasant burning smell. Similar faults occur when a mains power surge
can damage the computer motherbaord and hard drive circuitry. Immediately unplug
the computer from the mains supply and withdraw the hard drive to a safe place
until recovery can take place.
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 FAT32 and NTFS file systems.
Linux with EXT2fs, EXT3, XFS, reiserfs & jfs filesystems on standalone &
RAID volumes
Recover from partitions, even if the boot sector or FAT has been erased or damaged
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
- UNC Uncorrectable Data Error - especially Maxtor SATA
- Mains Power Surge
- Reversed power polarity / voltage from incorrectly plugging in power leads or
cable
- Fix Broken Pin or Pins on the Data Cable IDE SATA SCSI Connector
- 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 Drive
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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, New Zealand, Epsom, Surrey, Northern Ireland, Belfast,
Dublin, Londonderry, Armagh, Cork, Eire
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Hard Drive Data Recovery News
Client Comments
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| 160GB Seagate Firmware 3.AAC not spinning or recognised in computer BIOS |
| 07/04/2008, Nick Hews, Active Computing, Barnstaple, Exeter |
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Just to say thanks from our client for a speedy and successful data recovery. If something like this happens again you will be top of our list to call!
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| Archos USB drive file system not recognised |
| 10/01/2008, Hubna Butt, Bradford, Yorkshire |
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Thank you I have received the recovered dvd. I’d also like to thank you for a very prompt service, if ever I need any media recovering then I shall most definitely be using your company
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| Buffalo Terastation TS-0.6TGL/R5 0.6GB RAID5, E21 chip failure Network Controller. |
| 15/10/2007, Adam Monnery, AppiChar Ltd, London |
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Marvellous, thank you for all you’ve done. The client was very impressed with the speed and level of service… we’ll certainly be using you again!
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News Items
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| Western Digital WD NetCenter Data Recovery |
| 16/06/2007, Apex Technology |
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Apex Technology now offer Data Recovery for the WD NetCenter when it has lost its share folder, or when the NetCentre cannot be viewed through the utility. Recover accidental removal of the Share Folder. Gradual failing or reporting of incorrect file size. Lost File & Folders on the NetCentre. Also recovery from Corrupt Superblock. The Western Digital NetCenter is not visible from a standard Windows system.
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| Netgear SC101 firmware and drive partition data recovery |
| 16/06/2007, Apex Technology |
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Data Recovery for Netgear SC101. Following firmware upgrade the drive partition has been known to disappear. Apex now offers data recovery of files and folders from the SC101. The SC101 uses a proprietary file-system and is not visible from a standard Windows or Linux system. Sometimes (when the SC101 is in Mirror drive mode RAID1 one drive disappears from the system for a while. A user upgrades the firmware and then nothing is visiable on te drive. Contact Apex Technology for data recovery.
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| Adaptec SATA RAID Data Recovery. |
| 17/03/2007, Apex |
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Apex Technology can recover your data from such advanced data protection features which are currently available for the Adaptec SATA2 Serial ATA II RAID 2420SA four-port controller, the Adaptec SATA Serial ATA II RAID 2820SA eight-port controller, the Adaptec Serial Attached SCSI RAID 4800SAS eight-port PCI-X controller and the Adaptec Serial Attached SCSI RAID 4805SAS eight-port PCIe controller. These include Hot Space (RAID 5EE) and Striped Mirror (RAID 1E).
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