Data Recovery Tools

Hard Drive Firmware Repair Tool ver. 3.0

Notice: ESS Data Recovery has stopped offering this tool. It's unknown when we will make it available again, but ESS's services certainly continue to have the capabilities described below. Please browse our site for more information and contact us or submit a case online to use our recovery services.

February 5, 2007

ESS Data Recovery, Inc. is pleased to offer the latest in powerful data recovery firmware repair technology. This hardware and software combination allows repair of failed hard drives through restoration of corrupted microcode across nearly all hard drive makes and models.

More often than not, hard drives fail due to firmware corruption, not physical failure of its heads, spindle, or PCB. This is why it is essential for every data recovery company to have a means to repair firmware failure such as this.

That being said, this tool is a very powerful combination of hardware and software, superior to software-only firmware repairers, giving the Engineer the capabilities needed to run a full service data recovery center. Full support and hardware packages available. Please call us for more information or for pricing.

Supported hard drives

IBM/HITACHI

AVV2, HDS7-VLAT (AVV3).

IBM

DPTA, DJNA, DTLA5, DTLA7, AVER and AVVA.

FUJITSU 3.5"

MPG AT and MPG AH

FUJITSU 2.5"

MHK2xxxAT, MHL2xxxAT, MHM2xxxAT, MHN2xxxAT, MHR2xxxAT, MHS2xxxAT.

WESTERN DIGITAL

AA, BA, AB, BB, EB, DA, JB, ? PB, Marvell processor

SAMSUNG

Voyager10, Voyager11, Voyager11+ ? Victor40

SEAGATE

U4, U5, U6, U7, U8, V8, U10, UX, Barracuda 2,3,4,5,7,8,9

MAXTOR

Fireball3 (Ares), 541DX (Athena), 540X-4K (Romulus), DiamondMax Plus8 (N40P), DiamondMax Plus9 (Calypso), DiamondMax Plus16 (Falcon)

QUANTUM

LA, LB, LC, LM, AS, LD

HITACHI 2.5"

DK23xx: AA, BA, CA, DA, EA, EB, FB

TOSHIBA 2.5"

: MKxxxxGAP, MKxxxxGAS, MKxxxxGAX.