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Media and Operating Systems

Services | RAID Recovery | Media and Operating Systems | Procedures | Forensic Services

Data Detect offers a host of recovery services for the following Operating Systems and Media. If you have a system that is currently not listed here, contact us with its make and model and we will do our best to help.

Operating Systems

Intel Platforms:

  • OS/2 with FAT and HPFS file systems.
  • Novell NetWare with FAT and NSS file systems using separate, spanned, striped or fault-tolerant (RAID) volumes.
  • Windows ME, 98 / 95 with FAT32 or FAT16 file systems.
  • MS-DOS and variants using 12 or 16 bit FAT file systems. Compressed volume managers including Stacker, DoubleSpace & DriveSpace.
  • NT Workstation and Server with NTFS or FAT16 file systems using standalone, spanned, striped or fault-tolerant (RAID) volumes.
  • Windows XP (Professional , Home and Vista) with NTFS, FAT32 or FAT16 file systems using standalone basic partitions or dynamic spanned, striped or fault-tolerant (RAID) volumes.

Non-Intel Platforms:

  • Unix and Apple MAC
  • IRIX on SGI workstations with efs and xfs file systems
  • HPUX on Hewlett-Packard workstations with hfs and Veritas VxFS file systems on standalone and LVM volumes
  • All Macintosh hardware using SCSI, IDE & Firewire interfaces, including software RAID drivers such as SoftRaid & FWB Raid
  • VMS & OpenVMS running on Compaq & DEC equipment using ODS file systems
  • OS 9 with HFS and HFS+ file systems
  • OS X with HFS, HFS+ and Unix ufs file systems
  • AIX on IBM RS/6000 with jfs file systems on LVM volumes

Unix operating systems including:

  • UnixWare from Novell and SCO
  • SCO Open Server and Xenix
  • Linux with ext2fs, xfs, file systems on standalone & RAID volumes Solaris on Sun/SPARC equipment, with ufs and Veritas VxFS file systems
  • Windows 2000 Professional and Server with NTFS, FAT32 or FAT16 file systems using standalone basic partitions or dynamic spanned, striped or fault-tolerant (RAID) volumes.
  • Solaris

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Removable Media

Hard Drive Manufacturers, Models & Interface Types

  • HDD, Smart Disk, Western Digital, etc. Iomega Mini-USB drives in 64Mb, 128Mb and 256Mb capacities.
  • CD-ROM, CD R/W, DVD-R, DVD+RW and DVD-RAM disks.
  • Stiffy disks with 3.5" format 720Kb & 1.44Mb capacities.
  • Memory sticks, FireWire and USB removable / portable drives from Sahara, Iomega
  • ATA & SRAM Flash Cards such as Smart Media and Compact Flash, Sahara, and Western Digital

For more information concerning the recovery procedure, click here.

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Mobile Recovery

If you have lost essential data on your mobile phone's sim card, we have the ideal solution for you.

We are proficient in recovering all erased text messages off most commonly used mobile phones as well as deleted information (such as contact numbers, sms messages and so on), swiftly and effectively from the Subscriber Identity Module (SIM card), which is a stamp size card that safely stores subscription details, phone numbers, text messages and other vital information.

An account is produced. This allows us to find the viewing date and sending time of text messages, especially for instances where the information is needed for legal reasons.

Contact us for further details about this state-of-the-art data recovery service.

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Desktop

Hard Drive Manufacturers, Models & Interface Types


Data Detect services every hard drive brand, model or interface. Below you can find a list of the most popular makes. If you have any questions, please contact us immediately.

  • PCMCIA Type I, II, III hard drives from IBM, Western Digital, Integral Peripherals and Procomm.
  • 1.8" ATA-5 drives from Toshiba and Hitachi
  • MCA drives from IBM, Western Digital and Seagate with IBM ST-506 & ESDI and 2.5" laptop ESDI interfaces.
  • ESDI, RLL & ST/MFM drives from all manufacturers including Seagate, Western Digital, Conner, Fujitsu, Maxtor, Miniscribe, Quantum, Tandon, Fuji, Toshiba, IBM, Kalok, Micropolis, Priam, Microscience, Tandon, JTS, Kyocera, LaPine and Tulin.
  • CF+ Type II IBM Microdrives
  • EIDE and IDE drives from all manufacturers including Western Digital, Seagate, Quantum, IBM, Maxtor, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Samsung, Conner, Micropolis, JTS, Digital, NEC, Compaq, Digital, Kalok, Fuji, Areal and JVC using 2.5" laptop & 3.5" Normal 40 pin ATA through to the UDMA6 interface.
  • Fibre Channel drives from Seagate and IBM with FC (1Gigabit Copper) interfaces.
  • SCSI drives from all manufacturers including Seagate, Quantum, IBM, Western Digital, Fujitsu, Digital, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, Micropolis, Maxtor, CDC, Imprimis, Conner, Epson, Rodime, Toshiba, Samsung, Hitachi and NEC using Normal SE, UW, Differential (WD), LVD, Hot Swappable (SCA) and 2.5" laptop interfaces.

For more details relating to the recovery procedure, click here.

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Laptop

Hard Drive Manufacturers, Models & Interface Types

  • 1.8" ATA-5 drives from Toshiba and Hitachi
  • CF+ Type II IBM Microdrives
  • MCA drives from IBM, Western Digital and Seagate with IBM ST-506 & ESDI and 2.5" laptop ESDI interfaces.
  • Fibre Channel drives from Seagate and IBM with FC (1Gigabit Copper) interfaces.
  • SCSI drives from all manufacturers including Seagate, Quantum, IBM, Western Digital, Fujitsu, Digital, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, Micropolis, Maxtor, CDC, Imprimis, Conner, Epson, Rodime, Toshiba, Samsung, Hitachi and NEC using Normal SE, UW, Differential (WD), LVD, Hot Swappable (SCA) and 2.5" laptop interfaces.
  • EIDE and IDE drives from all manufacturers including Western Digital, Seagate, Quantum, IBM, Maxtor, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Samsung, Conner, Micropolis, JTS, Digital, NEC, Compaq, Digital, Kalok, Fuji, Areal and JVC using 2.5" laptop & 3.5" Normal 40 pin ATA through to the UDMA6 interface.
  • ESDI, RLL & ST/MFM drives from all manufacturers including Seagate, Western Digital, Conner, Fujitsu, Maxtor, Miniscribe, Quantum, Tandon, Fuji, Toshiba, IBM, Kalok, Micropolis, Priam, Microscience, Tandon, JTS, Kyocera, LaPine and Tulin.
  • PCMCIA Type I, II, III hard drives from IBM, Western Digital, Integral Peripherals and Procomm.

For more information regarding the recovery procedure, click here.

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Palm/Pocket PC & IPOD

For information regarding the recovery procedure for Palm / Pocket PC's & IPOD's, click here.

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