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Tape data recovery

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Tape data recovery, restoration & migration services

tape data recovery

Do you have hundreds or even thousands of data tapes that you need to be restored with the data copied to DVDs, hard drives or other storage media?
Does the data format need to be migrated so that it will integrate into your current systems? Do you no longer have the equipment or environment to restore your legacy data?

We can help. Call us today to speak with a Tape specialist and get real answers to your questions.

Capital Data Recovery Inc can recover or restore data from nearly all tape form factors and backup software formats.

In addition to tape restorations and recoveries, we perform large scale data migrations of your legacy media to a more current format.

We can recover data from

Tapes immersed in flood water
Snapped or burnt tapes from a fire
Tapes damaged by chemicals and smoke
Intentional or accidental physical damage
Software problems or backup failures
Overwritten tapes with Header damage

Tape cartridge formats supported

Quarter-Inch cartridge (QIC) media:
3.5" Cartridge Series - DC2000 (QIC 40, 80, 120, 250, 3020, etc.)
5.25" Cartridge Series - DC600, DC6000, DC9000, Magnus 1.2, 2.5
Mini QIC / Travan
Travan Media - TR1, TR3, TR4, TR5
Travan NS Network Series - NS8, NS20
4mm Cartridges - 60M, 90M, 120M, 125M, 150M
DAT DDS-1, DDS-DC, DDS-2, DDS-3, DDS-4
8mm Cartridges - 54M, 112M, 160M, 160MXL
DLT Media - DLT II, DLT III (10/20GB), DLT IIIXT (15/30GB), DLT IV (35/70GB)
SuperDLT Media
AIT, AIT2, AIT3 Cartridge Media
3480/3490/3490E
MLR / SLR Media - All Sizes
LTO Media - All Sizes
Iomega/Ditto
Exabyte 8mm – 8200/8500/8700, Mammoth, M2 type series
StorageTek 9840, 9940 series
ADR Media – All sizes
VXA Media – All sizes
9-Track Media – All sizes
and many more...

Reel tape media formats supported

600', 1200', 2400', 3200'
1600 BPI, 3200 BPI, 6250 BPI

Backup software supported

Arcada / Conner / Seagate / Veritas Backup Exec - All Versions
Cheyenne / Computer Associates - ArcServe & Arcsolo - All Versions
Brightstor Arcserve - All Versions
MS Backup - All Versions
NovaStor - All Versions
Dantz Retrospect - All Versions
Unix - Tar & CPIO
and many more…

We support over 500 different backup software formats and our engineers can develop custom extraction methods for your situation if needed.

We support tape drives and media sold by

3M, ADIC, Archive, Caliper, CDC, CMS, Cipher, Colorado, Compaq, Conner, DEC, Emerald, Everex, Exabyte, Fujitsu, HP, Hitachi, IBM, Iomega, Imation, Irwin, JVC, Legacy, Iomega, JVC, Maxell, Maynard, Micronet, Mountain, NCR, NEC, Panasonic, Quantum, Sanyo, Seagate, Sony, Sun, Tandberg, Teac, Tecmar, Verbatim, Wang, Wangdat, Wangtek, Unisys

I have worked with many companies over the years. Your customer service and support is above the rest. I am pleased to say I would definitely continue to use you guys in the future.

Data recovery process

Project submission

You are welcome to drop by Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. to bring your project. If you are out of city customer, we can send you a free shipping label.

Diagnostics

We offer emergency, standard and economy evaluations, ranging from overnight turn-around to 5 business days for economy.

Quote approval

Upon completion of diagnostics, you will receive a quote for the approval. Once approved, we'll resume your data recovery project.

Project completion

Your recovered data will be transferred onto an external hard drive or uploaded to a secure server for you to download your data, minimizing your downtime.

Google rating

5.0 502 reviews

  • Sean M ★★★★★ in the last week
    Excellent service from the entire team at Capital Data Recovery. I quickly gave them a call and they were immediately kind, welcoming, and supportive of my situation where a 5TB (full) hard drive had failed. … More Within just over a week they were able to recover EVERY bit of data on the drive, while keeping me updated throughout the entire process. I don't know anyone else who could have done the job they did, with professionalism and kindness throughout. If your drive fails, these are 100% the people I would recommend you bring your device to. They took time out of their schedules to help me selecting storage solutions moving forward, which I really appreciated. They cared just as much about my data as I did. I feel lucky to have them here in Ottawa.
    Thank you again, the work you do is incredible!
  • Karim D ★★★★★ a month ago
    Capital Data Recovery provided outstanding service. They are very professional, very kind, and of course, very skilled at what they do. I had damaged my hard-drive by accidentally giving it too much electric … More power. They were able to recover the data and transfer it to another drive within a matter of days. Plus they offer expedited service for an extra fee if you need your repairs done urgently.
    I trusted them with my super important data and I am happy with this decision. I would highly recommend Capital Data Recovery.
  • Family Strickland ★★★★★ a month ago
    We brought a corrupted hard drive to Capital Data Recovery last week. This hard drive contained thousands of family photos that were very important to us. Levon gave us an estimate (which he honoured although … More the scope of work increased as he got into the drive) and very quickly was able to recover 100% of our photos. Very impressive, highly recommended. You get what you pay for...how much are your memories worth?

Please, fill out the form below to get help with your data recovery project

Please, let us know who referred you so we can thank them in return.
* any media with damaged seals will be treated as previously opened
* any Ransomware projects are treated as Custom Projects. See terms below.

Read Terms & Conditions


The Client is the legal owner, representative, or otherwise have legitimate rights to the property and all data contained therein delivered to Capital Data Recovery Inc. The Client authorizes Capital Data Recovery Inc. to conduct an evaluation of the media to determine the nature of the damage and provide an estimate of recovery cost and timing.

The Client authorizes Capital Data Recovery Inc. to conduct an evaluation of the media sent to determine the nature of the damage and provide an estimate of recovery cost and timing. Your media may be opened for diagnostics or repair purposes. This may invalidate any warranty.

Capital Data Recovery Inc agree to absolute Non-Disclosure of any and all information or data files supplied with, stored on, or recovered from Client equipment. You may request a copy of this signed form for your records.

Capital Data Recovery Inc shall not be liable for any claims regarding the physical functioning of equipment/media or the condition or existence of data on storage media supplied before, during or after service. Capital Data Recovery Inc. is not liable for any direct or indirect damages, including loss of data, loss of revenue, incidental or consequential, before, during or after service.

The Client is aware of the inherent risks of injury and property damage involved in data recovery, including without limitation, risks due to destruction or damage to the media or data and inability to recover data, or inaccurate or incomplete data recovery, including those that may result from the negligence of Capital Data Recovery Inc, and assumes any and all known risks of injury and property damage that may result.

The Client is financially responsible for all shipping costs, custom duties and taxes to and from Capital Data Recovery Inc.

Payment is due in full upon completion of successful recovery, prior to release of data.

The Client agrees that media not collected within 30 days after the completion or declination of recovery services will be permanently destroyed for security reasons.

By signing this form Client agrees to accept the minimum recovery fee of:
Hard drive, SSD, RAID (per drive):
$399 for Non-Urgent Service
$799 for Standard Service
$3500 for Emergency Service
Flash/SD/USB media:
Flash/SD/USB media:
$350 for logical recovery
$499+ diag fee for electrical issues
CD/DVD is $250+
If no data is recovered there is no labour charge for data recovery service.
Note that ransomware, encrypted media, or any other custom projects are considered "Custom", thus No Data - No Fee policy does not apply.
The diagnostic and parts fee is not refundable. If you require the return of the original media, please specify at the time of the project submission.
Additional charges may apply to re-assemble the original media for release.

Diagnostics is offered free of charge for Non-Urgent service, unless:
A. Previously opened media: $200
B. Encrypted media: $500
C. Non detectable Digital media: $100
D. Western Digital My Passport: $100
E: Seagate Rosewood: $100
E: RAID Server, NAS: Contact for pricing

Refer to Terms & Conditions page on our website for more information.
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