Manufacturers 

Payam Data Recovery can recover data from all brands of hard disk drives.

The most common hard drives we work on are due to the Market share of drives sold in Australia which are typically Seagate, Western Digital, Maxtor, Toshiba and Hitachi/IBM brands.

We recover data from over 5000 hard drives per year from all different brands. Some brands of hard drives have more common problems than others.

Nothing is impossible! We can recover data from almost any type of hard disk with any type of problem.

A list of the most common faults we see with diffferent brands of disks is below.  Please click on the brand of your hard drive below for more information.

• Fujitsu - Damaged PCB & Bad Sectors are common.
• Hitachi - Bad Sectors and Damaged heads are common.
• IBM - Bad Sectors and Damaged heads are common.
• LaCie - Power Supply, File system damage and Damaged PCB problems are common.
• Maxtor - Firmware corruption, Bad Sectors and Damaged heads are common.
• Samsung - Damaged heads are common.
• Seagate - Damaged Heads, Seized spindle motor and Damaged PCB problems are common.
• Toshiba - Bad Sectors, Jammed Motor and Damaged heads are common.
• Western Digital - Damaged Heads, Firmware Corruption and Damaged PCB problems are common.

Any brand of hard disk drive can fail resulting in data loss. We are often asked, which brand is the best? There is no simple answer as from time to time, each manufacturer may have a more reliable or less reliable model of drive. Backup your most important data on another hard drive on a regular basis to avoid data loss in future.

Please contact us today for more information or bring your disk to us for an obligation free, free of charge evaluation and quote within 24 hours. The cost to have data recovered from a single hard drive can range from $250 up to $2400 for a very badly damaged hard drive.  Once we examine your hard drive, we'll be honest with you and give you a quote, give you a time estimate and an idea of the chances of success for your particular hard drive problem. You can then decide if you would like to proceed, if not - there is no charge to you and you may simply have your hard drive back.