Portable data recovery hardware and software complex, requiring no internet and securely run without backdoor design;

  Logical data recovery-Easily recover lost data due to file system corruption, virus infection, hard drive formatting, accidental deletion, operating system malfunction and so forth;

  World’s first professional and high success rate of disk image and data recovery hardware requiring no data recovery training, automate data recovery by several simple clicks;

  Image or recover data from all detected drives including SATA, IDE, SAS, SCSI, USB flash drives, SD, CF, MMC flash cards with necessary adapters;

  Data Compass accesses to faulty unstable drives which have been performed disk dismounting, head exchange or platter exchange and recover 70% more data than traditional data recovery tools;

  DC can access and scan the patient drive which has severe bad sector problem. Extensive Forward Image, Extensive Backward Image, Intensive Forward Image, Intensive Backward Image, Quick Skip LBA, Exact Skip LBA, Timeout and many other configurable image and recovery settings are provided to handle the bad sector problem which can’t be done by traditional data recovery software;

  DC adopts physical write blocker and ShadowDisk technology to make sure no change or damage will be occur to the patient drive; this is very important and is an advantage especially for customers who work in data recovery companies (they can promise their customers that even if we can’t recover your data, we will return the drive to you in its original status).

  File recovery by file type. You can search the exact file and recover, you can recover data by skip some file types or you can recover files with selected file types. All files can be viewed and opened within the data compass as normally as you view under windows to see if it’s perfectly recovered.

  Maximize data recovery efficiency and success rate. Skip files when reading failed, Skip files if it has an entry sector of 40 char, Skip file if it has 00 character, Reset power when reading failed, real time view the data during the image, etc.

  Recover data directly from drives with our unique innovative SA Emulation technology supporting so far Hitachi/IBM drives firmware failure and Western Digital drives head failure.

  Access to HD doctor for Seagate, Maxtor, Hitachi/IBM, Western Digital, Samsung, Toshiba/Fujitsu to repair firmware corruption and then recover data directly. You can use Data Compass and HD Doctor Suite collectively or separately.

  Image or recover data by selective heads supporting Seagate, Maxtor, Western Digital, Hitachi/IBM, Toshiba/Fujitsu, etc. The world’s first 32bit data image and recovery by selective heads for Toshiba and Fujitsu hard drives.

  DC hardware part connects to your computer via USB cable, which enables you to work data recovery from even a laptop, no special socket required. DC software part runs on Windows XP and Vista, with a standard Windows GUI, everyone who uses Windows OS can handle this software easily following the user manual.

  DC hardware is compatible with any of the logical data recovery software. That means besides the logical data recovery software provided originally, you can use any other data recovery software of your own to perform file retrieval. By connecting the patient drive which can’t be “seen” by the computer to DC, it will become visible again as an external USB hard drive, and then you can use any software to access this drive for file retrieval. This is very important especially when one customer has been very familiar and skilful with one software, he won’t try other software easily.

  DC also provides many other solutions and features like read/write control to the patient drive, sector view (sector editor), sector servo (sector scan), view HDD SMART, Enable/Disable SMART, HDD soft reset, HDD hard reset, and Cache Fix.

      1.Western Digital SA Emulation-Head firmware loading

Heads here means: Logical head o and head 1 with firmware
Problems to solve: logical head 0 or logical head 1 is damaged
Failure Symptoms: Power on the HDD, the motor spins and heads start seeking with some cackling noises, after two or three times, the motor stops spinning!
Advantages: You don’t need to open the hard disk and exchange the head, saving your donor head cost and improve your efficiency and data recovery success rate.
Note: Not all Western digital head damages can use this firmware loading solution, please pay attention to the failures symptoms mentioned above.

      2.Hitachi/IBM SA Emulation

   (Hard Drive Firmware Service Area Emulation Technology)

Definition: Initialize the firmware information of a specific hard drive by loading predefined SA resource file onto the memory of the external emulator. In another word, the hard drive will boot itself from the information on the emulator rather than from the native firmware information. By using the SA emulator, user can access the data area directly without repairing the corrupted firmware.
Failure Symptoms: Not detected or detected incorrectly in the bios; Drive freezes during booting up; run slowly make a regular ticking noise at start up
Advantages: You don’t need to find a donor firmware resource file, maximize your data recovery efficiency and success rate.
Upgrade within DC2011: All Hitachi/IBM hard drives series are integrated including the 7232 series and 5450 series. Users just need one click ‘Load Automatically’ and Data Compass will detect the patient hard drive series and load the corresponding resource file.

     3.ShadowDisk Technology

Overview: Before DC was released, Disk Image was a very important phase in data recovery, especially when the drive is in an unstable status; all the data will be imaged from the patient drive to another functional drive by disk imaging tools, and then data recovery will be performed on the functional imaged drive. This traditional procedure has an obvious disadvantage: you need to wait until the disk image finish to recover your data, even what you need is only a few files from the patient drive, you will still need to perform a whole disk image, and the time cost for a disk image will be hours or even days depends on the capacity and the drive status (the more bad sectors it has, the slower the image will be). Now, thanks to DC, data recovery professionals need not to prepare an image for the patient drive before data recovery happens; Pioneered Disk Image Technique - ShadowDisk, which images the sector physically from the defective drive to a functioning drive at the same time when the sector is being requested. So that each sector being requested will first be imaged to a good drive, and then the read/write request will be directed to the image disk. You don't need to spend lots of time to create an image, but actually you are working on an image when using DC with the patient drive.

Advantages: Maximize your data recovery efficiency and success rate; protect the source drive from a second damage.

      4.Image & Recover Data by Selective Heads

Support HDD brand: Seagate, Maxtor, Western Digital, Hitachi/IBM, Toshiba/Fujitsu;
Method: Disable the damaged heads, image or recover data from the working heads;
Unique: World’s first 32Bit Toshiba/Fujitsu image by selective heads
Advantages: Improve and maximize data recovery efficiency and success rate-recover all the possible data using working heads and then recover data from the left patient heads which are still able to read and finally the left heads. With this technology, you can recover as much data as possible before you go to find a donor drive for head replacement. Besides you can make best use of the heads you have and combine them to work effectively.

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