Recovering Data from Fujitsu Hard Drives
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Fujitsu's reputation has certainly improved since they admitted a few years ago that they had released 4.9 million potentially defective drives from their MPG and MPF series into the market with faulty chips.
These days, hard disk drives from Fujitsu (including 3.5", 2.5" and 1.8" notebook format) generally perform with higher than average reliability than is available from other manufacturers.
Physical failure is rare, but when Fujitsu hard disk drives do crash it is often because of corrupt firmware. Often the drive will lose track of information pertaining to its capacity and will be shown incorrectly in the BIOS or start clicking.
Fortunately, in most cases, data recovery or even full repair of the unit is possible as long as it is not operated while faulty for extended periods.
Common symptoms of failed Fujitsu hard drives are:
- Failure to be recognized by the BIOS
- Even when recognized by the BIOS the description is incorrect or indecipherable
- Sudden failure of the hard disk drive
- The drive is inaccessible but remains functioning physically
- The BIOS recognizes the drive but a fail error still appears
Fujitsu MPG and MPF series drives that still exhibit problems are:
10GB; MPG3102AT, MPF3102AT, MPG3102AH and MPF3102AH
20GB; MPG3204AT, MPF3204AT, MPG3204AH and MPG3204AT
30GB; MPG3307AT, MPF3307AT, MPG3307AH and MPF3307AH
40GB; MPG3409AT, MPF3409AT, MPG3409AH and MPF3409AH
Data Recovery from Fujitsu hard disk drives
While failed Fujitsu drives are often repairable, it is essential that you do not attempt to replace a faulty controller board with one from a working drive. Information on the board is specific to the drive it has been attached to and it will not function anywhere else. What's worse is that a different controller board can cause mechanical failure and dramatically increasing the risk of rendering your data unrecoverable.
As soon as you suspect your Fujitsu drive may be about to malfunction, turn the drive off and remove it from the system as soon as possible. The sooner you power down the drive the better your chances of recovering lost data once you send the drive to us for diagnosis.
Data Detect provides data recovery on all Fujitsu Drive Models - as shown.
MODELS
IDE / 3.5" PC DRIVE |
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10317 |
M1614T |
MPE3170AH |
MOBILE / LAPTOP / NOTEBOOK / 2.5" DRIVE |
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1000924 |
M2713T |
MHT2020AT |
2.5" & 3.5" EXTERNAL MOBILE USB & FIREWIRE |
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CG01000464101 |
CG01000483201 |
FSC2-00163 |
SERIAL ATA / SATA / SERVER / RAID / NAS / SAN |
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M1603TAU |
MPA-3035AT |
MPC-3064AT |
SCSI / SERVER / RAID / NAS / SAN |
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2244SA |
M2652S |
MAG309LC |
PARALLEL TRANSFER SMD |
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M2350A |
M2360A |
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SMD |
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B03B-4745-B002A |
M2380A |
M2333K |
SL IDE AT |
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M2611T |
M2616T-ET |
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SUPER EAGLE SMD |
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M2361A |
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ST-506 |
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2230AS |
2234AS |
2241AS |
ST-506 RLL |
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M2225DR |
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EIDE |
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CA01675B331000 |
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EAGLE SMD |
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M2351A |
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ESDI |
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2244E |
2245E |
M2249 |
FC |
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MAP3147FC |
MAP3735FC |
S26361F2435L173 |
FHT MFM ST412 |
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M2230AS |
M2234AS |
M2241AS |
FHT MFM ST506 |
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M2241AS2 |
M2242AS2 |
M2243AS2 |
FHT ESDI |
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M2244E |
M2247E |
M2261E |
FHT IPI-2 |
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M2652P |
M2671P |
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HHT MFM ST412 |
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M2225D2 |
M2226D2 |
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HHT MFM ST506 |
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M2227D2 |
M2227DW2 |
M2243T |
HHT RLL ST412 |
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M2226DR |
M2227DR |
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HHT RLL ST506 |
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M2243R |
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HHT IDE AT |
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M2612T-ET
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M2614T-ET |
M2623T |