Retrieved Data from 30 Year Old MO Disks!
After contacting over a half dozen media recovery services about retrieving the data from my Magneto-Optical (MO) disks, Disk Transfer was the only one that gave me any sense of confidence that they had the experience to get the job done. They did not disappoint! From shipping updates to progress reports, I felt that my 30-year-old disks were in the best of hands. In the end, they returned nearly 10,000 files (the entirety) on the disks, stored under two different ancient file systems. I am completely happy with the outcome and with the courtesy and professionalism every step of the way and would recommend them to anybody.
Reply from Disk Transfer
Many thanks for sending us your Mag-Op disks for Data Transfer from USA, and for leaving a great review :)
You had 600MB Magneto-Optical disks labeled at 512 Bytes/Sector that were last used in SGI Irix computer from mid 1990s (a unix variant) that was either EFS or XFS formatted. One disk side was Apple MacOS HFS formatted.
We made a disk image of each one so it would preserve all the data exactly as it was last written, as well as extracting the files and folders. The data was saved to USB memory sticks and uploaded to cloud server (drop box) so you could easily download the data.
It was an interesting project. We found the disks to be formatted in EFS which was SGI ( Silicon Graphics ) own early filesystem and not commonly understood by modern computers.
So thanks again Daniel for trusting us with your data. Kind regards, Howard Atherton.