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hard disk drives and operating systems including IDE, EIDE, SATA
and SCSI hard drive assemblies all makes and models of laptops and notebooks.
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SYMPTOMS
You may receive one of the following error messages when you are starting or using your computer:
• Serious Disk Error Writing Drive
• Data Error Reading Drive
• Error Reading Drive
• I/O Error
• Seek Error - Sector not found
Cause:
These error messages indicate either damaged data or physical damage on the hard disk.

Multi-Platform Data Recovery For Windows, Mac OS, Netware, Unix And More |
Just as data storage media continues to evolve and improve, the computer systems and other devices that rely on storage media are becoming increasingly more diverse and complex. Operating systems are constantly being enhanced and updated to accomadate new features and capabilities, placing more burdens on memory and data storage.
Operating Systems Supported
Microsoft Operating Systems
Windows Vista with NTFS, FAT32 or FAT16 file systems using standalone basic partitions or dynamic spanned, striped volumes
- Windows 2003 Server with NTFS, FAT32 or FAT16 file systems using standalone basic partitions or dynamic spanned, striped volumes
- Win XP Professional with NTFS, FAT32 or FAT16 file systems using standalone basic partitions or dynamic spanned, striped volumes
- Win XP Home Edition with NTFS, FAT32 or FAT16 file systems using standalone basic partitions or dynamic spanned, striped volumes
Windows 2000 / NT Professional and Server with NTFS, FAT32 or FAT16 file systems using standalone basic partitions or dynamic spanned, striped volumes
Windows Me / 98 / 95 / 3.x with FAT32 or FAT16 file systems
MS DOS - All Versions and variants using 12 or 16 bit FAT file systems
Novell Operating Systems
Novell Netware - All Versions
(5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x) with FAT and NSS file systems using standalone, spanned, striped or fault-tolerant (RAID) volumes
Apple Operating Systems
Macintosh OS 10.x / 9.x / 8.x / 7.x HFS and HFS+ file systems
Macintosh System 7 & 6
Apple ProDOS
Unix Operating Systems
Linux - All Versions (RedHat, etc.)
SCO Unix - All Versions
SGI IRIX - All Versions
Sun Solaris - All Versions
Computer Systems Supported
Support for all types of new & legacy systems including –
PC & Workstations
Laptops & Notebooks
File Servers & RAID Systems |
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Supported Operating Systems, Platforms, and Filesystems
- Windows XP Professional and Home with NTFS, FAT32 or FAT16 file systems using standalone basic partitions or dynamic spanned, striped volumes
- Windows 2000 Professional and Server with NTFS, FAT32 or FAT16 file systems using standalone basic partitions or dynamic spanned, striped volumes
- Windows NT Workstation and Server with NTFS or FAT16 file systems using standalone, spanned, striped volumes
- Windows ME, 98, 95 with FAT32 or FAT16 file systems
- MS-DOS and variants using 12 or 16 bit FAT file systems
- Apple Macintosh:
- OS 9 with HFS and HFS+ file systems
- OS X with HFS, HFS+ and UNIX UFS file systems
- All Macintosh hardware using SCSI, IDE and FireWire interfaces, including software RAID drivers such as SoftRaid and FWB Raid
- Compressed volume managers including Stacker, DoubleSpace and DriveSpace
- OS/2 with FAT and HPFS file systems
- Novell NetWare with FAT and NSS file systems using standalone, spanned, striped or fault-tolerant (RAID) volumes
- UNIX on Intel and Non-Intel platforms, including:
- SCO OpenServer and Xenix
- UnixWare from Novell and SCO
- Solaris on Intel platforms, Sun/SPARC equipment, with UFS and VERITAS VxFS file systems
- Linux with EXT2FS,XFS,REISERFS and JFS file systems on standalone and RAID volumes
- BSD-based systems such as FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD, BSDI, LynxOS
- QNX
- HPUX on Hewlett-Packard workstations with HFS and VERITAS VxFS file systems on standalone and LVMvolumes
- IRIX on SGI workstations with EFS and XFS file systems
- VMS and OpenVMS running on Compaq and DEC equipment using ODS file system
- AIX on IBM RS/6000 with jfs file systems on LVM volume
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