Laptop Harddrive OEM and Replacement - Data Recovery by Cherry Systems

Damaged laptop drive? Lost or deleted files? You have come to the right place. We handle all brands of laptops and laptop drives. Our success rate is typically above 90% and our charges are very reasonable for the effort involved. We are frequently able to recover data from drives where a head crash has physically damaged part of the platter. Our clean room environment allows us to access the sealed portions of hard drives and correct failed internal components. In most cases, the recovery process involves restructuring of the data using highly sophisticated techniques and proprietary equipment and software our engineers have developed.

Hard Drive Types and Models

All current and older laptop drive types and sizes

All SATA Drives
ZIF Drives
IDE ATA 2" (full height, 1/2 height, and 1/3 height)
SCSI
PCMCIA and Compact Flash size drives (Type I, II, III, IBM Microdrives, IBM Type-II, CF+)
Toshiba proprietary & ATA-5

All drive manufacturers including:

Seagate
Maxtor
Western Digital
Toshiba
IBM
Fujitsu
Quantum
Hitachi

Samsung
Compaq
Hewlett-Packard
Conner
JVC
PrairieTek
All OEM Drives*
All Laptop Brands**

* Many companies such as Simple Technology and MDT (Magnetic Data Technology) relabel drives that are manufactured by one of the manufacturers above. We would be happy to help you with your OEM drive.

** The brand of your laptop may not be the same as the brand of the internal drive. Brands such as Dell, Compaq, Gateway, etc. commonly use Hitachi, Toshiba, and IBM drives.

Platforms, Operating Systems (OS), and File Systems

Intel Platforms:

All Microsoft Windows Operating Systems including:

Windows 2003
Windows XP (Professional and Home) - NTFS, FAT32
Windows Vista
Windows 2000 (Win2K) (Professional and Server) - NTFS, FAT32 volumes
Windows NT 4.0, 3.5.x (Server and Workstation) - NTFS, FAT
Windows ME - FAT32, FAT16
Windows 98/95
Windows 3.11, 3.0 and older

All MS-DOS versions including versions (v) : 6.22, 6.2, 6.0, 5.0, 4.01, 3.3 PC-DOS and other variations (FAT16, FAT12)

Compressed volumes using DoubleSpace, DriveSpace, and Stacker.

OS/2, OS/2 Warp (FAT and HPFS)

Linux (Ext2fs, Ext3fs, XFS, ReiserFS, JFS, UFS) OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, BSDI, LynxOS SCO Open Server, Xenix, Unixware

Non-Intel Platforms:

Apple Macintosh:

OS X (Unix UFS, HFS, HFS+)
OS 9 (HFS, HFS+), OS 8 (8.5, 8.6) , System 7 and older Firewire (IEEE-1394) and USB external drive cabinets
Jaguar
Panther
Tiger
Leopard

Unix based systems:

Solaris (SunOS) on Sun/Sparc stations
HPUX (Hewlett Packard workstations)
IRIX (EFS) on SGI (Silicon Graphics, Inc.) workstations
VMS, OpenVMS (Digital, DEC workstations)

Pick OS

CP/M and other obsolete Operating Systems

Instructions for sending us your media: If you are ready to send us your hardware here are instructions for packaging, address information, and directions for drop off.

How We Do Business: An explanation of our recovery time, warranty information, how data is returned to you, and terms of payment.