Quantum Hard Drive Data Recovery

Legacy Quantum Fireball or Bigfoot drive? We recover data from vintage Quantum hard drives.

Recovering vintage Quantum drives

Quantum sold its hard drive business to Maxtor in 2001, so any Quantum drive is now more than 20 years old. These drives are still found in old PCs, vintage Macs, industrial machines and archived systems. Recovering them needs donor parts that are becoming rare, plus experience with older drive designs.

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Quantum drives we recover

Fireball desktop drives (including the CR, EX, Plus LM and lct ranges), Bigfoot 5.25-inch drives, and Atlas and Viking SCSI drives from servers and workstations. See our donor match guide for how we find compatible parts.

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Highest success rates in hard drive data recovery

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Common faults on old drives

Stuck heads or seized motors after years in storage.
Failed electronics – capacitors and chips age.
Weak heads and worn surfaces that need very slow, careful imaging.

How we recover it

Start with a free initial consultation. We then carry out a clean room assessment, source any donor parts needed and image the drive as gently as possible. If the drive came from a vintage Mac, see vintage Mac data recovery.

Prices

Initial consultation: Free – tells you whether the fault is physical or logical and the best recovery method. Doesn’t include opening the drive in a clean room or any recovery attempt.
Assessment fee: £99 + VAT – only if the drive needs to be opened in our clean room to identify the damaged parts.
Clean room physical recovery: £480 to £750 + VAT – clicking, grinding or non-spinning drives, plus the cost of a donor drive if required.
Logical data recovery: £150 to £350 + VAT – deleted files, formatted drives and corrupted partitions.

All prices exclude VAT. See our full data recovery price list.

Frequently asked questions

Can you connect old IDE and SCSI drives?

Yes. We have the adapters and equipment for IDE, SCSI and other legacy interfaces.

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Book your free consultation

Call 020 7394 2529, email [email protected] or visit our lab at Unit 1, The Willows, 80 Willow Walk, London SE1 5SY (Monday–Saturday, 9am–6pm, free customer parking). You can also book a pickup or request a quote online.

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