Recoverable Media Types & Platforms

While this list covers most of the common hard drive, disk & server platforms that Iomega commonly recovers data from, Iomega's highly-skilled data recovery technicians have 30 years of experience with every kind of storage system imaginable. From the smallest disk to the largest data centers, no matter the media type, manufacturer or operating system, we can help restore your data – and peace of mind.

If you don't see your media listed below, or if you have any recovery questions, talk to a data recovery professional today!

Hard Disk Drives:

• SATA drives from all manufacturers including Western Digital, Samsung, Hitachi, Toshiba, and Seagate
• USB, FireWire and eSATA external hard drives from all manufacturers, including Iomega, LaCie, Western Digital, Cavalry Storage, Toshiba, Hitachi, Seagate, Maxtor, HP, Verbatim, and Fantom
• EIDE and IDE drives from all manufacturers including Western Digital, Seagate, Quantum, IBM, Maxtor, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Samsung, Conner, Micropolis, JTS, Digital, NEC, Compaq, Kalok, Fuji, Areal and JVC using 2.5" laptop & 3.5" Normal 40 pin ATA through to the UDMA6 interface.
• SCSI & iSCSI drives from all manufacturers including Seagate, Quantum, IBM, Western Digital, Fujitsu, Digital, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, Micropolis, Maxtor, CDC, Imprimis, Conner, Epson, Rodime, Toshiba, Samsung, Hitachi and NEC using Normal SE, UW, Differential (WD), LVD, Hot Swappable (SCA) and 2.5" laptop interfaces.
• Fibre Channel drives from Seagate and IBM with FC (1Gigabit Copper) interfaces.
• ESDI, RLL & ST/MFM drives from all manufacturers including Seagate, Western Digital, Conner, Fujitsu, Maxtor, Miniscribe, Quantum, Tandon, Fuji, Toshiba, IBM, Kalok, Micropolis, Priam, Microscience, Tandon, JTS, Kyocera, LaPine and Tulin.
• MCA drives from IBM, Western Digital and Seagate with IBM ST-506 & ESDI and 2.5" laptop ESDI interfaces.
• PCMCIA Type I, II, III hard drives from IBM, Western Digital, Integral Peripherals and Procomm.
• 1.8" ATA-5 drives from Toshiba and Hitachi
• CF+ Type II IBM Microdrives

Servers, RAID Arrays & Network Appliances:

• Network Attached Storage (NAS) servers from manufacturers such as Iomega, Buffalo, Quantum, Snap!, Maxtor, NSS μStor and HP
• Stand-alone & rack-mounted servers from all manufacturers, including HP/Compaq ProLiant, HP Integrity, HP e3000, Dell PowerEdge, HP/Compaq AlphaServer, IBM Blade servers, IBM XSeries, IBM Unix AIX, IBM System i, IBM System p, IBM System x, IBM System z, Intel server systems, AMD server systems
• Virtual server architecture, including VMware ESX Server, GSX Server, and VMware Workstation systems
• RAID & SAN systems from all manufacturers using any interface & RAID level.
• Supported RAID Array Levels:
  • RAID 0
  • RAID 0+1
  • RAID 1
  • RAID 1E
  • RAID 3
  • RAID 4
  • RAID 5
  • RAID 5E
  • RAID 5EE
  • RAID 6
  • RAID 10
  • RAID 50
  • RAID 51
  • RAID 60
  • RAID ADG
• Supported RAID Array Hard Drive Types:
  • IDE/ATA/PATA/EIDE
  • ULTRA/ATA 100
  • SAS
  • SCSI
  • ESDI
  • Fibre Channel
  • USB
  • FireWire
  • PCMCIA
  • RLL
  • iSCSI
  • eSATA
  • SATA II/2.0
  • SATA
  • MFM

Removable Media:

• Floppy diskettes in 3.5" format with 720KB & 1.44MB capacities, 5.25" format single- and double-sided to 1.2MB capacity
• CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD+/-R, DVD+/-RW and DVD-RAM disks
• Syquest 44MB, 88MB and 200MB 5.25" cartridges
• 1.0GB SPARQ and 1.5GB SyJet cartridges
• Imation 120MB SuperDisks
• ORB 2.2GB Cartridges
• Optical Formats for standalone and multi-cartridge Jukebox storage systems:
  • ISO 3.5": 128MB, 230MB and 640MB
  • GigaMO 3.5" 1.3GB
  • ISO 5.25": 650MB, 1.0, 1.2, 2.3, 2.6GB WORM and R/W
  • Panasonic 5.25" 1.5GB
  • Pinnacle 5.25" 2.6GB and 4.6GB
• Iomega Zip 100MB, 250MB and 750MB Disks
• Iomega Bernoulli 44MB, 90MB, 105MB and 150MB 5.25" cartridges
• Iomega Jaz 1GB and 2GB cartridges
• 230MB and 270MB 3.5" cartridges
• ATA and SRAM FlashCards such as SmartMedia, CompactFlash and SD cards
• USB keychain drives such as Iomega Mini and Micro Mini USB Drives, M-Systems DiskOnKey drives, Lexar JumpDrives, Trek ThumbDrives and more

Digital Photos & Digital Camera Media:

• Photo Storage Media:
  • CompactFlash
  • miniSD
  • xD Picture Card
  • SD card
  • SmartMedia
  • CD & DVD
  • Floppy Disk
  • Zip Disk
  • MultMediaCard MMC
  • Memory Stick
  • Microdrive
• Camera Manufacturers:
  • Canon
  • Kodak
  • Nikon
  • Fuji
  • Konica
  • Polaroid
  • Olympus
  • Sony
  • Minolta
  • Epson
  • JVC
  • Agfa
  • Pentax
  • Ricoh
  • Chinon
  • Samsung
  • Panasonic
  • Casio
  • LG
  • Sharp
  • Mitsubishi
  • Vivitar
  • Goldstar
• Image Formats:
  • JPG / JPEG
  • TIF / TIFF
  • GIF
  • PNG
  • BMP
  • RiFF
  • RAW

Tape Backup Systems:

• DLT III, DLT IV, DLT-1, VS80, VS160 & Super DLT tapes up to 320GB capacity
• LTO 1, 2 Ultrium tapes up to 400GB capacity
• 4mm DAT format DDS, DDS-2, DDS-3 & DDS-4 tapes up to 40GB capacity
• Exabyte 8mm 112m and 160m tapes, MammothTape, Mammoth-1 (Exabyte 8900), Mammoth-2 up to 150GB capacity
• Seagate AIT & AIT-2, AIT-3 tapes up to 260GB capacity
• Travan TR-1, TR-3, TR-4 & TR-5 tapes up to 20GB capacity
• Iomega Ditto 2GB & DittoMax 5GB/10GB QIC tapes
• QIC Mini-Cartridges DC2000-DC2120 with 40, 80MB & 250MB capacity

Operating Systems & File Systems:

• FAT, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, HPFS, HFS, HFS+, UDF, ext2fs, XFS, JFS, UFS, EFS, ODS file systems
• Microsoft:
  • Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate (32-bit and 64-bit editions)
  • Windows Server 2008 Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web Server, HPC Server (32-bit, 64-bit and Itanium editions)
  • Windows Home Server
  • Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, and Ultimate (32-bit and 64-bit editions)
  • Windows XP Home and Professional (32-bit and 64-bit editions)
  • Windows Server 2003 Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, and Web (32-bit, 64-bit and Itanium editions)
  • Windows 2000 Professional, Server, Advanced Server, Datacenter Server (32-bit & 64-bit editions)
  • Windows Me
  • Windows 98, 98SE
  • Windows NT Workstation and Server 4.0, 3.51, 3.5, and 3.1
  • Windows 95
  • Windows for Workgroups 3.11, 3.1
• Apple:
  • Mac OS X Server
  • Mac OS X
  • Mac OS 9.x & earlier (Mac OS Classic)
• MS-DOS and variants
• Compressed volume managers including Stacker, DoubleSpace and DriveSpace
• OS/2
• Novell NetWare with both FAT and NSS file systems
• Intel-based Unix platforms, such as:
  • Solaris, Linux with ext2fs, xfs, reiserfs & jfs filesystems on standalone & RAID volumes
  • BSD-based systems such as FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD, BSDI
  • SCO OpenServer and Xenix
  • UnixWare from Novell and SCO
  • LynxOS
  • QNX
  • AIX
• Non-Intel Unix platforms, such as:
  • Solaris on Sun/SPARC equipment, with ufs and Veritas VxFS filesystems
  • HPUX on Hewlett-Packard workstations with hfs and Veritas
  • VxFS file systems on standalone and LVM volumes
  • IRIX on SGI workstations with efs and xfs filesystems
  • VMS & OpenVMS running on Compaq & DEC equipment using ODS file systems
  • AIX on IBM RS/6000 with jfs file systems on LVM volumes

Applications & Databases:

• Productivity Applications:
  • Microsoft Office
  • Apple iWork
  • Apple iLife
  • OpenOffice
• E-mail Server & Client Applications:
  • Microsoft Exchange
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Unix mbox
  • Eudora
• Database Systems
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • Oracle databases
  • MySQL databases
  • Microsoft Access
  • SharePoint databases
  • FileMaker databases
  • Lotus Notes
  • Sybase SQL Server & SQL Anywhere databases
  • PostgreSQL databases
  • xbase databases, including dbase & FoxPro
  • RDBMS relational database applications

Backup Files & Formats:

• Roxio Retrospect
• Iomega Backup, Iomega 1-Step Backup, Iomega Automatic Backup
• Cheyenne/Computer Associates ARCserve for NT and NetWare
• Microsoft Tape Format (MTF) applications such as NT Backup and Seagate/Veritas BackupExec for Windows NT/2000, Backup Exec for NetWare
• System Independent Data Format (SIDF) applications such as Novell's Sbackup and Palindrome's Backup Director
• Practically all legacy DOS and Windows backup formats, including Colorado/Cheyenne Backup for Windows, Arcada/Seagate Backup Exec for Windows 95 and 98
• Previos/Stac Replica Backup for NT, NetWare
• Legato NetWorker (all platforms)
• Unix TAR, CPIO, FBACKUP, FSDUMP and UFSDUMP archives
• Compaq/DEC VMS Backup
• Intelliguard/Legato Budtools for Unix platforms
• Sytron/Seagate/Veritas Sytos & Sytos Plus for DOS, NetWare and OS/2