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Datlabs can successfully recover your data from your 3.5" drive.

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Our technicians can efficiently recover data from your 2.5" laptop drive.

RAID Systems

Emergency data recovery on
0, 1, 5 and 10 RAID Systems.


External Drive
External hard disk data recovery from USB and Firewire devices.

Removable Drives

Data recovery from CD, DVD, ZIP,JAZ and Flash devices.

External LaCie Hard Drive Failure

The LaCie Big Disks are infact one or more standard IDE hard disk drives with a USB and / or FireWire interface surrounded by a metal or plastic casing. LaCie drives have become extremely popular due to the large capacity available in their range and its tough exterior.

Recent drive failure figures have shown that there has been an increase in the failure rate of the larger capacity LaCie products. Datlabs have extensive knowledge of the typical problems faced by LaCie hard disk drives and would provide you with the best chance of retrieving your data.

Typical Models:

  • LaCie Big Disk
  • LaCie Rugged Hard Disk
  • LaCie Little Disk
  • LaCie Mobile Disk
  • LaCie Desktop Hard Disk

Failure Symptoms:

  • Specific files and / or directories become inaccessible and disappear.
  • In more severe cases, the entire drive becomes inaccessible and disappears.

Further potential problems:

  • The internal fan is susceptible to damage, and can break down due to wear and tear, the drive(s) are then prone to overheat within the casing, causing the device to fail.
  • LaCie external disks are still prone to all the other problems hard disks suffer from ie. mechanical failure, logical failure, bad sectors etc.
  • LaCie frequently use Maxtor or Western Digital hard drive.

Datlabs have a high success rate of recovery from LaCie External Hard Disk Drives, please call for more information.


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