Each recovery case begins with a Toshiba hard drive data recovery to determine the potential for recovery and to provide an quote for your review. The initial diagnosis determines whether data recovery is possible at all and if so, how much it will cost and how long it will take to be done. Recovery of data from crashed hard disks often involves replacing failed or damaged components in a clean environment (Clean room class 100) and using specialised hardware and software tools to create the raw image. Failed components typically include electronics, read/write heads, head assemblies, magnets & drive motors. Logical data recovery uses the raw image by examining the low-level data sectors and determining what steps need to be taken in order to get access to the important data. This way, a logical data recovery analysis can determine the nature of the data loss and what methods need to be used to recover data and achieve best results. If the media is inaccessible our lab will test the components and closely examine its internal health to determine the extent of physical damage. Once a recovery has been successfully completed, file lists are created and data validity and integrity is checked. In addition to the specially in-house designed data recovery tools, we also use the highest quality and the most advanced data recovery technologies available to the data recovery industry. The hard drive has a corrupt or damaged partition table. The primary or secondary hard disk has failed and the system BIOS displays the message primary hard disk failure or secondary hard disk failure. There is one more problem that is typical for all hard drives: bad sectors. After some period of time magnetic surface starts to degrade and magnetic domains can't be turned in a desired direction by writing element of the head. This is how bad sectors appear. When the drive starts reading data from such unreadable bad sector it could start freezing, scratching and sometimes even clicking. This leads to further damage to the surface, heads and causes more data loss. As soon as you start experiencing such symptoms while reading important files stop the drive immediately and send it to our data recovery lab. Any further attempts would just add up to the problems. In our lab we use special imaging hardware tools that are capable of reading raw sector data ignoring checksum check. That's usually the only way to get as much data as possible from these sectors.

Data Recovery - Toshiba Hard Drives Toshiba is the undisputed leader in small form factor hard disk drives(HDD). It leads the market in the development, design and manufacturing of small form factor 0.85-inch, 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch hard disk drives. Built with the performance and reliability characteristics, the Toshiba’s hard disk drives have become the drive of choice in today's most popular MP3 players, notebooks, automotive jukebox systems, and portable handheld GPS units.0.85-inch Hard Disk Drives In the form of 0.85-inch HDD, Toshiba delivers gigabytes of capacity packed into a tiny hard drive that fits on the fingertip. Never before has something so small held so much. The postage stamp sized 0.85-inch HDD was also named the smallest Hard Disk Drive in the 2005 Guinness Book of Records. Toshiba's 0.85-inch HDD will bring storage to a new generation of products including mobile phones, tiny MP3 players, digital camera, and camcorders.Automotive Hard Disk Drives Toshiba is the industry pioneer in small form factor hard disk drives for automotive applications. This line of hard drives are specially designed to endure the extreme operating conditions of the automobile environment, enabling automobile manufacturers and aftermarket suppliers to extend the digital experience to the car. Able to withstand temperature ranges from -22o to 85o Celsius, Toshiba's automotive HDDs enable applications such as in-car entertainment, information, navigation and more. Enhanced temperature specifications and humidity control provide unsurpassed reliability amid extreme conditions and unsteady roads. The drives are available with capacity of 30 and 40 GB in 2.5 inch size. Consumer Electronics Hard Disk DrivesToshiba was the pioneer in bringing CE manufacturers the storage solutions which were needed to create tomorrow’s best-selling products. Toshiba was the first HDD supplier to announce and commercialize Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR) technology to remove the capacity limits hard drives faced using conventional recording methods. With PMR, storage manufacturers can get up to 10 times more capacity on an HDD, giving consumer electronics companies open road for continued convergence and innovation in portable digital devices. The CE hard disk drives are available in 0.85 and 1.8 inch sizes with the varied capacity of 20, 30 and 40 Gb