Fujitsu Data Recovery Information

Fujitsu hard drives are widely known in data recovery business for their line of MPG hard drives several years ago that had faulty Cirrus Logic chips. Fujitsu manufactured about 5 millions of these hard drives and in November 2002 after a massively reported data losses have admitted the problem. The blame was laid on the supplier of epoxy mould compound used in the manufacture of Cirrus' Himalaya 2.0 and Numbur chips. It was claimed that supplier of the epoxy, a Cirrus Logic sub-contractor - made the first of several changes to its product, and it was this that ultimately caused the chips to fail by short-circuiting thus making the drive faulty and data inaccessible. After several months of use hard drives usually stop to spin up, behave erratically, start clicking etc. Nowadays these otherwise nearly ideal devices are mostly extinct but still sometimes we get them into our lab and in 100% of the cases we get all data back thanks to Fujitsu perfect mechanics.

Unfortunately this story shook Fujitsu reputation badly and they never manufactured 3.5" IDE drives anymore. Today only drives for laptops and those with SCSI interface can be seen. They are quite rare guests in our lab, thanks again to Fujitsu next to ideal mechanics and firmware implementation.

Among the typical problems 2.5" laptop Fujitsu come into our lab are bad heads with clicking or knowcking symptoms(click to listen) and heads stuck to the platter when the drive can't spin up due to sticktion.

Another typical problem for all manufactured hard drives and especially Fujitsu: bad sectors. After some period of time magnetic media the platters are covered with starts to degrade and magnetic domains can't turn in the 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 retrieve as much data as possible from such sectors.

Below is the list of models manufactured by Fujitsu. Click on yours to see if there are any special remarks about it. If you can't find your model in the list there is still a great chance we can handle it. Just fill out evaluation form or contact us.