RAID & Server Hard Disk Drive Data Recovery

Hard Disk Drive Interfaces catered for:

• Serial ATA Interface - SATA (1.5Gb/s), E-SATA (1.5Gb/s), and SATA-II (3Gb/s)
• Parallel SCSI Interface - Ultra SCSI, Ultra160 SCSI, Ultra320 SCSI
• Fibre Channel Interface
• Serial Attached SCSI - SAS (3Gb/s)
• Plus all older or newly released products not listed.

RAID Configurations catered for:

• RAID-0, 1, 0+1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 50, 53 & S.

Hard Disk Drive Manufacturers and Models Catered for:

• Seagate - Barracuda (SATA), Cheetah, Savvio & NL35 Series
• Maxtor - DiamondMax (ATA & SATA), & Atlas
• Hitachi - Deskstar (SATA), & Ultrastar
• Western Digital - Raptor (SATA & E-SATA)
• Samsung - SpinPoint T (SATA)
• Fujitsu
• IBM
• Quantum
• Plus all manufacturers and/or models (older or newer) not listed.

Operating Systems catered for:

• Microsoft Windows 2003
• Microsoft Windows 2000
• Microsoft Windows NT
• Apple Mac OS
• Unix - HP, Sun, Linux, AIC etc
• Netware - Standard, 4.11, & NSS

HDD Data Recovery Category 1 - Standard Recovery
During the basic analysis drives are categorised depending on the work needed to remove the data. This category caters data recovery for problems such as:

• File Deletion
• Media Reformatting
• Operating System Corruption
• Media Format Corruption

90% of all data recovery jobs are dealt with in this section.

HDD Data Recovery Category 2 - Advanced Recovery
During the basic analysis drives are categorised depending on the work needed to remove the data. This category requires an advanced analysis to determine if the data can be retrieved involving proprietary methods, which incurs a charge.  This category caters data recovery for problems such as:

• Basic hardware failures for media with no valid warranties

2.5% of all data recovery jobs are dealt with in this section. 

HDD Data Recovery Category 3 - Advanced Recovery for Mechanical Failures
This category requires an advanced analysis to determine if the data can be retrieved involving proprietary methods using specialist equipment and specialist dust free environments, which incurs a charge.  7.5% of all data recovery jobs are dealt with in this section.  This caters for problems such as:

• High urgency work
• Top Security Requirements
• All non-MS O/S Recoveries
• Basic hardware failures for media with valid warranties
• Mechanical Failures

Due to the specialist nature of the work involved and/or to ensure no warranties are affected we hand this work over to our partner company Ontrack, who are probably the best data recovery company in the world.  By definition this is a more costly solution provided by the best trained specialists.

The following manufacturers have granted authorisation to Ontrack to open the seal on any of their hard drives without voiding the manufacturer's warranty:
Fujitsu, IBM, Maxtor, Quantum, Samsung, Seagate, Western Digital

How do I proceed?

• Contact us on 0786 612 9728, email recovery@aspansolutions.co.uk or complete our enquiry form.
• A Data Recovery Service Representative gathers information and assesses your situation.
• You package and send the media to us, or we arrange a courier to collect the media.
• After receiving the media, our Data Recovery Engineers perform the FREE basic analysis to provide you with details of which category the media is listed in and the cost or range of costs involved.
• Our Data Recovery Engineers temporarily overcome the problems in order to access the data and perform the recovery.
• Your recovered data is backed up to suitable media: CD, DVD, Hard Drive or FTP Download.
• Your original media and recovered data is sent back to you for restoration.