LaCie comes in various designs and models and is very popular media designed to satisfy the sharing and backup needs of a small office environment. This device is mostly used by Mac users.

It optimized to work in different configurations, e.g. RAID5, RAID0, RAID1, RAID10 and JBOD. These devices are used with windows, Linux and Mac operating systems but mostly with Macs. LaCie drives can be formatted as HFS, HFS+, NTFS, EXT2 and EXT3 file systems.

LaCie also comes in single drive external USB or firewire casing. These devices also suffer failures and need data recovery; you should always seek professional help if you face any data loss situation. Disk Doctors data recovery lab has experience in recovering data from all LaCie configurations. Disk Doctors has its own R&D team which has developed tools to recreate any RAID configuration from failed LaCie storage systems; and recover data from any file system hosted on these.

• Never reinitialize drives
• Do not force the drives online
• Never change the sequence of the Raid Drives
• Do not reinstall Operating system
• Do not create new partitions
• Immediately switch off the media upon hearing unusual sound.
• Label all drives according to their position in Raid Array
• Always seek professional help, Call Disk Doctors at 0800 043 6611

At Free Evaluation stage, we gather valuable information about LaCie storage media, such as:

• Level of RAID if any i.e. JBOD, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5
• Exact issue with the media
• Details of any hit and trial method carried out on the media by the client.

Once we gather complete information as mentioned above, we send an evaluation report with a fixed quotation for approval. We start the recovery process upon approval; there are various specialized methods of recovery which may include.

• Using a clean room facility to fix the physically failed drives and getting them to work.
• Creating bit by bit secure replica of the media
• Identifying parity technique, using in-house developed applications.
• Rebuilding the data from fragmented stripes together (applicable to RAID 5 arrays)

Most of issues are very complex besides the points mentioned below, which is tackled with other in-house developed techniques. We guarantee to recover your data or you don’t pay us anything.

Disk Doctors guarantees protection of your data throughout the data recovery process, from evaluation to handing data back to the client.

1. Disk Doctor Employees are selected through a rigorous process of selection and follow our strict rules and procedures for handling the client data.
2. Client media is cloned sector by sector onto our own lab media and all the data recovery work is carried out on the cloned media not the original media; this ensures that client’s storage media is always intact.
3. Upon successful recovery Disk Doctors by default keeps a copy of the data for 7days before it gets deleted automatically from our Lab Server. This helps in providing the copy of data again if some thing goes wrong during the transfer of data to client e.g. the data media gets damage or goes missing during the postal process.
4. Our agreement to recover the data includes the clause for protection and non disclosure of data as per legal rules and regulations. If you require separate agreement for data protection and non disclosure, we are happy to sign the agreement.