Samsung Hard Drive Data Recovery

Samsung sold its hard drive business to Seagate in 2011, but Samsung SpinPoint drives remain in use in many desktops, laptops and external enclosures. For several years afterwards Seagate also made drives sold under the Samsung name, including Samsung-branded M3 portable drives. We recover data from all of them.

Samsung today is best known for its SSDs – the 990 PRO, 870 EVO and T7 portable range. If your device is a Samsung SSD, please see our dedicated Samsung SSD data recovery page.

Samsung Hard Drives We Recover

Range / family	Example models & notes
SpinPoint F-series (desktop)	F1, F2 EcoGreen, F3 (HD103SJ, HD502HJ), F4 EcoGreen (HD204UI).
SpinPoint M-series (laptop)	M7, M8 (HN-M101MBB, HN-M500MBB) and M9T (ST2000LM003, made by Seagate).
External drives	Samsung M3 Portable, D3 Station, S2 Portable and G2 Portable.
Older models	SpinPoint P, S and T series, and Samsung drives built into Dell, HP and Apple systems.

Common Faults

• Clicking or scratching noises from worn or damaged heads
• Firmware faults causing the drive to be undetected or show 0MB
• Data corruption on the F4 EcoGreen (HD204UI) linked to its original firmware
• USB board failure on M3 and D3 external drives
• Accidental deletion and formatting

Before you send your device – five things to avoid

• Switch the device off and leave it off – every power cycle can make physical damage worse
• Do not run CHKDSK, Disk First Aid, fsck or recovery software on a drive that clicks, beeps or is slow
• Do not open the drive or swap the circuit board – modern boards hold drive-specific adaptive data
• Do not reinstall the operating system or initialise the disk when prompted
• Keep liquid-damaged devices unpowered and bring them in as quickly as possible