IBM Hard Drive Recovery

IBM is one of the oldest companies in the IT business, having manufactured the first IBM hard drive in September 1956 and stayed in operation until 2003. IBM has been a big and reliable supplier to the data storage market for many years. In recent times the company has suffered considerable damage to its reputation for quality. In 2003, after a lot of controversy and legal action relating to the mass failure of its DeskStar range of hard drives, IBM's disk manufacturing division was sold to Hitachi. The IBM DeskStar hard drives have a disturbing reputation for serious mechanical failure needing urgent recovery - the most notorious is known as the DeskStar Click-of-Death. We specialize in IBM and other hard drive recovery.

You can recognize the IBM hard drive Click-of-Death by a regular scratching noise punctuated by a click sound that comes from the hard drive. Click-of-Death problems are among the most troublesome for data recovery, and we urgently recommend that you speak to one of our recovery engineers as soon as you suspect that you need IBM hard drive recovery. The most common cause of failure is the hard drive's read/write heads not lining up with the data on the hard drive. This causes internal corruption, which leads to the 'Click of Death' sound. Since the IBM hard drive manufacturing division has been taken over by Hitachi, reliability has improved. Nevertheless, we still see DeskStar hard drives failing quite often. You will recognize an imminent failure either by getting the clicking sound or by a message when you boot up your computer. If you suspect you may have an IBM hard drive failure and may need recovery, you should contact us straight away.