Data Recovery

Macroware Systems recover data from damaged, failed, corrupted or inaccessible storage media. Logical or software damage to a file system is far more common than physical damage is, and data recovery is possible without the need of clean room facilities. We offer a set price, completely free diagnosis and a no recovery - no fee policy. We recover passwords, documents, emails, photos, music, video & application data files on site in the Sydney area. Bring your computer to our workshop or have it picked up from your work or home.

USB/Firewire/eSata/Ethernet External/Removable Hard Drive

An External/Removable hard drive is any hard drive which attaches to a port on the outside of a computer case. These units are prone to all the usual problems relating to IDE & SATA hard drives plus

If the hard drive has been dropped and makes a ticking/musical noise when powered on
If Knocked the drive and makes a buzzing noise
If Overheating the drive will suddenly die and not be recognised by the BIOS

Windows/Linux Data Recovery

We have successfully recovered data from PC's displaying the following messages:

Primary Hard Disk not found. Press F1 to Continue
Invalid or corrupt FAT
Master Boot Record Not Found
Invalid partition table entries
Invalid sector
Cannot find file or program
Invalid command.com
Primary/Secondary Hard disk failure
Virus attack

Macintosh Data Recovery

We have successfully recovered data where the Mac has displayed the following messages:

Cannot access <drive> because a disk error occurred
This disk is unreadable by this computer. Do you want to initialize the disk?
The disk <drive> cannot be accessed because a disk error occurred
Segment Loader Error
No such volume
Bad file name
not a Macintosh disk
bad master directory block