MJM Data Recovery

We are able to recover data from all makes of Android phone, from deleted files to completely broken and damaged phones. We have advanced recovery methods including JTAG and Chip off recovery developed for memory  chip recovery. Prices from £149 for more details Android Data Recovery In the modern world, Mobile phones have become the place to store files, photos, videos and a host of other details are all stored on mobile phones. When the unexpected happens, like you accidentally delete all you photos, or you drop the phone in a puddle, or as in one case we have had, a customer had dropped their phone onto the road, and a car ran over it, smashing it to pieces. We can recover a whole host of data that was stored in a phone such as. Call Logs Contacts Documents Messages Music Photos Videos Whatsapp For more information about this please visit our website Mobile Phone Data Recovery

MjM Data Recovery Ltd have been recovering data since 1999 Removal of the chips are fairly straightforward. For most of them you can just apply enough heat and they will come off. This stage can become complicated if the devices are glued onto the PCB or are BGA type pads on the bottom of the chip that are not easily accessible. Hot-air guns can be used, but we prefer Infra-Red for BGA type Flash memory removal as the process is cleaner and there is less chance of pad damage. Once the chip has been read, the next stage is very complex. You will need to have access to a NAND flash reader. There are hundreds of different types of chips with varying block sizes, some are designed to be used according to the device controller on the PCB. There are 3 favoured devices for reading NAND chips, there are three main contenders in the Flash Recovery Market. Soft Center Flash reader  Flash Extractor. This has been available since the early 2000's and we bought our first one in 2004 wh...

MjM Data Recovery are now able to recover data from most Mobile phones and tablet computer systems. We are able to recover from seriously damaged devices, such as those that are broken, have been in fires or have been dropped in water or even those that have been dropped down the loo! More details of our services are available here : https://www.mjm.co.uk/mobile-phone-recovery.html We work on a no recovery no fee basis and our prices are competitive. Our quotes are fixed, so when you receive a quote from us to recover your mobile phone, that is all you pay. We are able to remove the chips from the phones to do the recovery where necessary but we also have the equipment to extract data from working phones using forensic techniques and equipment.

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Data Recovery from Toshiba Hybrid Drives. After months of research we have finally cracked the Toshiba Hybrid SSD problems. Searching through reams of code resulted with a list of commands that enables us to manipulate the firmware on the SSD-side of these drives. Codes to modify the hard disk side are well known throughout the DR trade, but problems with Hybrid drives usually result with unrecoverable drives. For MJM Data Recovery that is no longer the case, we are are able to recover data from these drives that usually show as three types of failure. The drive does not spin. The drive spins but hangs the computer The drive spins and give ID but data can not be accessed. The problem is determined by the symptoms, but we can reset SMART for the SSD-side of the drive, reset SSD-side cache and when necessary completely reset the NAND. We recover for end users, IT companies and other Data Recovery companies. For more information please see this Data Recovery - Toshiba Hyb...

We are able to recover data from the Apple Core Storage file system. Usually with file and folder structures intact. for details of this and our other data recovery services please visit our main website MjM Data Recovery Ltd

MjM Data Recovery have the technology to recover from the most advanced and complex SAN systems. Whatever the configuration and however many drives, volumes or Luns are involved - we are able to help recover data that has been deleted, data that has been affected by fire extinguishing systems, data recovered from floods, fires and all manner of other failure inckuding drive failure and controller failure. In many cases it id possible to rebuild deleted data - one recent recovery involved recovering over 200 Terabytes of deleted data, the vast majority of which was fully recoverable. We can now recover data from more types of SAN systems including.. Netapp StorNext  CentraVision Apple XSAN combined with our existing SAN recovery for other systems such as Dell, EMC 2 Broadberry, etc makes us one of the most advanced data recovery centers in the UK. Our website is constantly updated with information and there will soon be a complete separate section for SAN recovery....

MjM Data Recovery are now able to unlock firmware on the new Grenada and Lombard series of drives. When repairing a hard disk prior to recovery it is important to be able to examine and repair bad modules and tables within the firmware of the hard disk. When firmware problems started appearing in about 2006/2007 the firmware zone on the drive was fully accessible using a TTL terminal adapter to manipulate the firmware, turn features on or off to improve the readability and reset and rebuild corrupt or damaged sections of the firmware. If this repair can not take place, then the data is not recoverable. With the later Grenada and Lombard drives (the ones with a corner cut-out on the PCB) the firmware is either restricted or entirely locked down - especially on the SES series of Grenada. We are now in a situation where we can remove these locks temporarily and make a clone of the data. We recently recovered 2 drives from a RAID 5 array where the problem was exacerbated by needin...

About Data Recovery I thought I would write a blog post describing what data recovery is all about. To put the phrase in to a description it would be 'Recovering data from damaged computer storage media' The problem is that the description would not cover reasons. So there are are few main reasons for data loss in the first place. These are (and this list is not exhaustive) .. Logical failure - deleted files, formatted disks, virus damage, random encryption events, overwritten data. MjM Data Recovery Limited have written their own software for accessing logical problems on most operating systems offering a better chance of recovery.   Firmware problems - this is where something has gone wrong with the built-in systems on the hard disk or ssd drive resulting with the storage system not working as expected. Either the device is not usable at all, or if it is it is very slow, sporadic data access or corrupted data. MjM use the latest firmware tools and for some systems ha...

Hard Disk Error Diagnosis. When a drive has been sent to us for recovery because of a physical failure, it is absolutely vital that a correct diagnosis of the problem is made. Some companies will try one thing and if that fails try another until they either get to the problem or give up as a lost cause. We do not recommend this type of ad hoc analysis as in some cases it can make a problem worse. For example, a write-head fault can easily be mis-diagnosed as a firmware problem and attempts to 'repair' firmware can result in it becoming completely unreadable making the problem worse, because now not only do heads need changing but the drive also needs firmware repairs being made. There are set stages in the diagnosis stage and these follow a pattern. Once a problem is found it is not always considered the only problem so diagnosis will continue. In some cases this may involve ordering spare parts to complete a diagnosis, but in most cases we will not charge for these. Depe...

Data recovery for encrypted hard disks When a hard disks is encrypted or contains encrypted data the recovery process can be significantly more complex. The first part of the process is imaging or making a clone of a hard disks, followed by data extraction and repair from the clone. When data is encrypted it adds a further layer of recovery as the encryption will need to be removed before the data can be extractted. We have developed several techniques for recovering data from drives encrypted with almost any of the widely available commercial and free encryption software. More information can be found on our website: Data Recovery from Encrypted Data

Seagate Data Recovery Back in 2008 Seagate introduced the 7200.11 F3 series of drives, the range was from 160 GB up to 1500 GB and later 2 GB. Soon after, these drives developed a firmware bug that totally bricked the hard disks. Seagate forums were overflowing with tales of woe. Seagate brought out a firmware update that fixed the problem, but the drive needed to be working to apply it. There was another problem, the firmware fix actually bricked working drives - but only a specific model was affected with the update. Seagate were then forced to provide free data recovery on this model, but left the rest to their own devices. At one point someone made some termminal commands available that could fix the SMART logs and translator problem that cause the 0 MB problems on some of the drives so then they could then run the firmware update. Thanks to that guy many users were able to recover their data. When Seagate bought out the 7200.12 and some later Laptop versions, there wa...

Complete disassembly of a hard disk. A transfer and minor update from an article on our old website. This article does a complete disassembly of a hard disk drive describes each component and what heir function is. Five separate interlinked sections describe An overview of the hard disk to be dismantled Gives a description of the drive and shows the difference between good and bad platters The Head Stack Assembly Shows each part of the head stack and describes their functionality within the drive. The Electronics PCB of the hard disk An brief explanation  of the functions of the PCB on a hard disk drive. The Motor How the motor is controlled and the bearing mechanics. The platters. Describes the manufacture of platters.  The article can be found here. Disassembly of a Hard Disk

How ATA Registers Work After some requests from users we have started restoring some of the technical pages we had on our website. There were a few on our old website that are being converted from the old site tro the new one. The latest one is the page that describes how the ATA registers work on a hard disk drive. With explanations of the purpose of their functions and has been updated to include 48 bit LBA addressing., The page can be found at : https://www.mjm.co.uk/articles/how-hard-disk-ata-registers-work.html We are also in the process of building some technical videos showing exactly what goes on when accessing hard disks.

Another busy weekend updating the information on our RAID pages. Added some new pages and text. Recovering data from raid arrays is a complex problem that requires complex software, we started developing our own raid recovery software back in the early 2000's We are now a market leader for raid data recovery and can recover from the most complex of raid systems, including EMC Isilon SAN and EqualLogic systems. Full details of our raid recovery service is available at our website .. Raid Recovery For more information about us please follow the link to our main site here: Data Recovery Services

We have recently made a major update to our NAS Recovery pages on our website at www.mjm.co.uk/nas-data-recovery/nas-recovery.html We have included pages for Buffalo Linkstation and TeraStation Drobo Systems Netgear ReadyNAS Recovery Netgear SC101 and SC101T Recovery Qnap NAS Data Recovery Synology NAS Recovery Thecus Data Recovery Western Digital NAS Recovery  Quite a few pages added with information about NAS Recover from all above. Next is major update for RAID pages to include several new Server pages.

Western Digital ROM Recovery A recent job received was a Western Digital 2 TB drive. It had been to another data recovery company before we saw it and they were unable to recover. We examined the drive and found that the processor on the controller card (circuit board)  had failed. Another problem was that the ROM ( this device contains information about the drive and is unique to every drive ) was embedded in the processor meaning that another technique (aka Hot Swap) has to be applied in an attempt to read the system area on the drive. This gave us access to the system area where we could access the modules used to create a ROM. So far so good. We then hit another problem, all of the ROM modules were completely empty so it was impossible to rebuild the ROM using standard techniques, this we believe is the reason the other company could not recover. This did not stop us though, at this stage our senior engineer was given the job and taking the drive we used for the hot s...

Fake Memory Cards. After seeing countless fake memory cards received for data recovery, we decided to write some software to help users determine if they have a fake memory or genuine memory card. The problem with the fakes is that they are so good, they actually appear to have the advertised storage space and it even seems that the full amount of data can be written. The only problem, is that the data overwrites some of the existing data rendering the older data useless. Our experiments indicate that (at least with the devices we tested) that the files and folder structures seem to be OK as they list as expected. The problem comes when the memory reaches its true physical limit. At that time, the data starts overwriting at the end of the card. As the file system information is updated, as normal there is no way of knowing, until you open a file that has been overwritten. It has gone, and unfortunately is most likely not recoverable.  Of course there will be exceptions to thi...

Apple have released an update that is reported to corrupt data. Our experience is that folder names are lost, and in a few cases the whole filenames are lost. Please contact us for data recovery from the Maverick Upgrade Failure Data Recovery : Maverick Upgrade Initial reports indicate that it is only affecting Western Digital drives and WD are looking into problems with the Maverick Update and the Western Digital drivers for OSX. More information can be found on ZDNet http://www.zdnet.com/western-digital-warns-customers-os-x-mavericks-may-destroy-drive-data-7000022800/ Please phone us for data recovery on 0800 072 3282

Wer'e now in the process of rebuilding our old website. www.mjm.co.uk After a lot of thought we have decided to rebuild our old domain .. We first bought this domain in 1994 for our old company 'MjM Computer Publishing' At some point I will write a history of our company, The site became synonymous with data recovery and helped us to market our business. A three letter domain is very easy to remember and served us well in the early years. Then came Negative SEO. Our original site was well rankedi n Google's 'SERP' results for years we were no1, 2 or 3 for our major search terms. We suddenly saw this drop, and drop. We checked what was happening and found links from pages where we had not requested them, asking to get links removed was futile as they never even responded. So we set about buying other related domain names and developing sites which would initially rank well, then fall off again. More recently, Google has updated its ranking algorithms so...