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Seagate 7200.11 Firmware Problems

Data Recovery from Seagate Hard Disks with Firmware Problems Major problems with firmware found on Seagate 7200.11 drives. Seagate hard disks failing because of a problem in the programming of the hard disks. The problems manifests itself by either reporting as 0 LBA or the drive is just not recognised at all. MjM Data Recovery were one of the first companies in the UK able to fix these drives. What happened next was almost unbelievable. Once Seagate became aware of the problems they released a firmware update in order to prevent the problem occurring in drives that had not yet failed. There was (at least) one model of drive that if the firmware update was applied, it stopped the drive from working - completely 'bricked'. As you can imagine, this caused disquiet and uproar on the Seagate forums and Seagate had to cave in, admit the problem and issue another fix, they withdrew the firmware update and replaced it with another and offered a free data recovery ser

MjM Data Recovery Limited

Data Recovery Services: Having recently moved to Gamlingay on the Cambridgeshire / Bedfordshire border, we are now in a position to offer easy access data recovery services for customers in 4 counties. London and the South Cambridgeshire Bedfordshire Hertfordshire Buckinghamshire We are within easy driving distance from major towns in the area including Town Distance (Miles) Bedford 16 Cambridge 19 Cambridge- Science Park 18 Huntingdon 14 Milton Keynes 33 Newmarket 33 Royston 12 Stevenage 19 St Neots 7 We are able to recover data from hard disks, raid, tape, memory cards and all other computer storage devices. Please phone 0800 072 3282

Slow Reponding Toshiba Drives

Toshiba Laptop Data Recovery Some problems have been found with Toshiba Laptop drives where the computer will fail with any of the following symptoms .. The drive hangs during boot Unable to access data Computer is very slow Problem with Drives We found the problem which is related to the G-List ( Grown defect list )it either becomes corrupt or is not readable. If it is not readable by the drive then the correct translator algorithms can not be run and so the drive slows down or even stops completely. Solution to Toshiba Hard Disk Problem. The solution is very complex and requires specialist equipment to enable rebuilding of the defect maps externally to the drive. However, once this is achieved the data can be accessed and a near perfect recovery is possible. For more information on this problem please visit our Toshiba Data Recovery pages.