Since 2008 | No Data, No Fee | $100–$2,000 | Nationwide Mail-In
Fujitsu manufactured hard drives until 2009, when the HDD division was transferred to Toshiba. ACE Lab's PC-3000 supported-drive list groups the Fujitsu ATA families under Fujitsu, and that is the bench we use for firmware work on the 2.5-inch MHW, MHZ, and MHY laptop series and the 3.5-inch MPG/MPE desktop series. We maintain Fujitsu donor stock and handle both consumer and enterprise SCSI/SAS mechanisms. No data recovered = no charge.
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Fujitsu produced hard drives for decades before transferring the entire HDD division to Toshiba in October 2009. The transition drives (Toshiba MJA series) are still listed under Fujitsu on ACE Lab's PC-3000 supported-drive list.
ACE Lab's supported-drive list groups the Fujitsu ATA families under one manufacturer entry: MPA, MPB, MPC, MPD, MPF and MPG; MHD, MHK, MHM, MHN, MHR, MHS, MHT, MHV, MHW, MHX, MHY and MHZ; and the Toshiba-branded MJA2xxxBH.
Fujitsu data recovery costs $100–$2,000, determined by the failure type, not the drive's age or model. Simple data copies from a functioning drive cost $100. File system recovery for corrupted partitions is from $250. Firmware repair for translator corruption or G-List overflow costs $600–$900. Head swaps for clicking or non-spinning Fujitsu drives cost $1,200–$1,500. Platter damage starts at $2,000. Free evaluation and a firm quote for every drive. If we cannot recover your data, you pay nothing.
Do Not Swap the PCB
Fujitsu drives store unique adaptive calibration data (head positioning, servo parameters) in non-volatile memory on the PCB. That data has to move to the replacement board before the drive is powered, which is why that transfer is part of our PCB-swap procedure. Do not attempt a PCB swap on any Fujitsu drive. Send it for free evaluation instead.
Is Your Toshiba MJA Actually a Fujitsu?
The Toshiba MJA series (MJA2160BH, MJA2250BH, MJA2320BH, MJA2500BH) began as a Fujitsu 2.5-inch design and continued under Toshiba branding after the HDD division transferred from Fujitsu in 2009. ACE Lab's PC-3000 supported-drive list groups these models under Fujitsu rather than Toshiba, so send us the model number off the label with the drive. Drives that are Toshiba designs end to end are covered on our Toshiba data recovery page.
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Five published tiers. Pricing is based on the failure type, not the drive model or age. Free evaluation for all Fujitsu drives, from early 2000s desktop mechanisms to the final MHY laptop series.
Your drive works, you just need the data moved off it
Functional drive; data transfer to new media
Rush available: +$100
$100
3-5 business days
Your drive isn't recognized by your computer, but it's not making unusual sounds
File system corruption. Accessible with professional recovery software but not by the OS
Starting price; final depends on complexity
From $250
2-4 weeks
Your drive is completely inaccessible. It may be detected but shows the wrong size or won't respond
Firmware corruption: ROM, modules, or translator tables corrupted; requires PC-3000 terminal access
CMR drive: $600. SMR drive: $900.
$600–$900
3-6 weeks
Most Common
Bench diagnosis found the read/write heads have to be replaced. Clicking can also come from firmware, the preamp, or the spindle
Head stack assembly failure. Transplanting heads from a matching donor drive on a clean bench
50% deposit required. CMR: $1,200-$1,500 + donor. SMR: $1,500 + donor.
50% deposit required
$1,200–$1,500
4-8 weeks
Your drive was dropped, has visible damage, or a head crash scraped the platters
Platter scoring or contamination. Requires platter cleaning and head swap
50% deposit required. Donor parts are consumed in the repair. Most difficult recovery type.
50% deposit required
$2,000
4-8 weeks
Our "no data, no fee" policy applies to hardware recovery. We do not bill for unsuccessful physical repairs. If we replace a hard drive read/write head assembly or repair a liquid-damaged logic board to a bootable state, the hardware repair is complete and standard rates apply. If data remains inaccessible due to user-configured software locks, a forgotten passcode, or a remote wipe command, the physical repair is still billable. We cannot bypass user encryption or activation locks.
No data, no fee. Free evaluation and firm quote before any paid work. Full guarantee details. Head swap and surface damage require a 50% deposit because donor parts are consumed in the attempt.
The prices above are for standard hard drives, which covers most jobs. Helium-sealed drives (for example WD or HGST Ultrastar He and Seagate Exos X) must be resealed and refilled with helium in-house after the chamber is opened, so they price higher, in the $200–$5,000+ range. See helium drive pricing.
Fujitsu produced drives across consumer, enterprise, and laptop categories until 2009. Model identification determines the donor pool.
| Series | Form Factor | Interface | Common Failure |
|---|---|---|---|
| MHW2xxxBH | 2.5-inch laptop | SATA | Head failure, translator corruption |
| MHZ2xxxBH | 2.5-inch laptop | SATA | Head failure, motor seizure |
| MHY2xxxBH | 2.5-inch laptop | SATA | Head failure, G-List overflow |
| MHT2xxxAH | 2.5-inch laptop | IDE/PATA | Motor seizure, head stiction |
| MPG3xxxAH | 3.5-inch desktop | IDE/PATA | Motor seizure, Cirrus Logic controller IC failure |
| MAP3xxxNC | 3.5-inch enterprise | SCSI | Head failure, SCSI controller damage |
| MBA3xxxRC | 3.5-inch enterprise | SAS | Head failure, firmware corruption |
| MJA2xxxBH | 2.5-inch (Toshiba-branded) | SATA | Head failure, translator corruption |
ACE Lab's PC-3000 supported-drive list covers the Fujitsu ATA families, and it groups the Toshiba-branded MJA transitional series under Fujitsu rather than Toshiba.
Our Austin lab operates on a transparency-first model. We use industry-standard recovery tools, including PC-3000 and DeepSpar, combined with strict environmental controls to maintain drive integrity. This approach allows us to serve clients nationwide with consistent technical standards.
Open-drive work is performed in a 0.02 micron ULPA-filtered laminar clean bench.
Serving clients nationwide via mail-in service since 2008. Our lead engineer holds PC-3000 and HEX Akademia certifications for hard drive firmware repair and mechanical recovery.
Our repair work has been covered by The Wall Street Journal and Business Insider, with CBC News reporting on our pricing transparency. Louis Rossmann has testified in Right to Repair hearings in multiple states and founded the Repair Preservation Group.
Our "No Data, No Charge" policy means we assume the risk of the recovery attempt, not the client.
Louis Rossmann
Our engineers review all lab protocols to maintain technical accuracy and honest service. Since 2008, his focus has been on clear technical communication and accurate diagnostics rather than sales-driven explanations.
We believe in showing the bench rather than just describing it. Open-drive work runs on a 0.02 micron ULPA-filtered laminar clean bench, and we filmed it.
See the particle counter test at the benchFujitsu hard drives use a Service Area (SA) layout distinct from Seagate, Western Digital, and Samsung architectures. The SA resides on negative cylinders on the platters and contains the translator tables, the defect lists (P-List and G-List), adaptive parameters, head maps, and microcode modules. ACE Lab's PC-3000 supported-drive list covers the Fujitsu ATA families, and that is the bench our firmware work runs on.
When the translator becomes corrupt, the drive initializes but reports zero capacity or fails to present the user data area.
When dynamic defect lists overflow or develop internal checksum errors, the drive cannot complete its initialization sequence and drops to a degraded detection state.
Fujitsu's production spanned desktop, laptop, and enterprise drives. Failure patterns vary by form factor, interface generation, and manufacturing era.
Fujitsu's 2.5-inch SATA laptop drives were widely used in Lenovo ThinkPads, Fujitsu LifeBooks, and various other laptops from 2005-2010. The MHW series and the later MHZ and MHY series share the same firmware architecture. Head failure and translator corruption are what we open these drives for; translator corruption presents as a drive that spins, identifies, and then reports zero capacity.
Common models: MHW2120BH, MHW2080BH, MHZ2160BH, MHZ2250BH, MHZ2320BH, MHY2120BH, MHY2160BH, MHY2200BH, MHY2250BH
Earlier 2.5-inch drives from the MHT and MHV series. These drives predate the MHW generation and are found in laptops from 2003-2006. The MHT IDE drives use a 44-pin connector. Common failures include motor seizure from long-term storage and head stiction on the platter surface.
Common models: MHT2040AH, MHT2060AH, MHT2080AH, MHV2040AH, MHV2060AH, MHV2080BH
Fujitsu's MP-prefix desktop drives. ACE Lab's supported list carries the MPA, MPB, MPC, MPD, MPF and MPG families. The MPG3xxxAH series was common in consumer desktops and small business servers. These drives are now 20+ years old, and spindle motor seizure from lubricant solidification is a condition we routinely open them for. Donor availability is scarce for 3.5-inch Fujitsu models.
Common models: MPG3102AH, MPG3204AH, MPG3307AH, MPE3064AH, MPE3084AH, MPE3136AH, MPE3170AH
Fujitsu's enterprise line used SCSI and SAS interfaces for server and SAN deployments. The MBA3073RC and MAP3147NC are examples of the two families. When these drives are RAID members, we image each drive individually before reconstructing the array.
Common models: MAP3147NC, MAP3073NC, MAP3367NC, MBA3073RC, MBA3147RC, MBA3300RC
The translator table maps logical block addresses (LBAs) to physical cylinder-head-sector (CHS) locations on the platters. When it becomes corrupt, the drive initializes and may even report its correct model number, but it shows zero capacity or an incorrect size. The operating system cannot access any data because the LBA-to-physical mapping is broken.
Translator corruption on Fujitsu drives typically results from power interruptions during firmware housekeeping operations or from progressive bad sector accumulation that corrupts the SA copy on the platters.
Recovery involves reading whatever fragments of the translator remain, then using the zone map definitions and head configuration data to reconstruct the mapping from scratch.
Translator corruption is not data loss. The user data sectors are physically intact on the platters. Only the mapping table that tells the controller where each LBA is located is damaged. Rebuilding the translator restores access without any physical intervention. This is a $600–$900 firmware-tier recovery.
On the 2.5-inch MHZ, MHY, and MHW laptop families we see translator failure present as a drive that spins, identifies its correct model string, then reports 0 LBA or a mismatched capacity.
We read what survives of the translator on the PC-3000, reconstruct the logical-to-physical map from those fragments, and image every sector through PC-3000 Data Extractor onto a target disk. All work happens on the clone. The original never writes again, so if the reconstruction proves imperfect we can iterate without risking further SA damage.
A Fujitsu drive pulled out of long storage can present with motor seizure. The spindle motor's fluid dynamic bearing lubricant thickens and partially solidifies over years of inactivity; when powered on, the motor cannot generate enough torque to overcome the static friction. Motor stiction requires opening the drive in a 0.02 micron ULPA-filtered clean bench, making this a $1,200–$1,500 recovery.
We manually free the motor, verify smooth platter rotation, and confirm that no head stiction is present (head stiction is a separate condition where the head slider is bonded to the platter surface by lubricant migration). After freeing the motor, we image the drive immediately before the lubricant can re-solidify.
The MHT and MHV series produce nearly identical symptoms when they fail from long storage, yet the two failure modes need different interventions. Bearing seizure is a motor problem: the fluid dynamic bearing lubricant thickens until the spindle cannot start. Head stiction is a surface bonding problem: migrated lubricant on the platter pulls the parked head-slider into contact, and the slider's air bearing cannot break away on spin-up.
We distinguish the two on the bench before any power-on imaging attempt. For head stiction we open the drive in the ULPA-filtered clean bench, park the heads on a dedicated head-comb to keep them off the platters, and rotate the spindle by hand until the slider releases. Only then do we reinstall the heads and image the drive. Running a stiction-stuck MHT through software recovery tools repeatedly applies starting torque, risking severe media damage. See our hard drive stiction breakdown for the broader mechanism across other manufacturers.
A Fujitsu PCB failure presents the same way regardless of which component died: the drive does not spin, does not respond to power, or emits a faint click without spinning up. PCB repair requires transferring the adaptive data from the original board's non-volatile memory to the donor board before applying power.
The motor controller IC that drives the spindle is a common failure point on these boards; thermal cycling degrades its solder joints and internal connections.
Diagnosis requires visual inspection of the PCB for bulging or leaking capacitors and continuity testing of the motor controller and preamp power circuits.
PCB repair on Fujitsu drives follows the same principle as any manufacturer: the adaptive data stored in non-volatile memory on the original PCB must be transferred to the replacement board. We desolder that chip from the original PCB and transfer it to a tested donor board.
When a MAP or MBA refuses to spin, we test for shorted filter capacitors on the motor driver rail, examine the driver IC for pitting or burn discoloration, and verify continuity on the controller pre-regulator.
A clean donor board alone does not solve it. We transfer the adaptive data off the original board, rework the failed driver section, and only then apply power through a current-limited bench supply. When the drive belongs to a server or SAN array, we image each member drive individually before any array logic runs.
A clicking MHW, MHZ, or MHY drive needs more than a same-model donor. Fujitsu changed internal components mid-production without changing the model string on the label, so two drives stamped MHZ2160BH can carry incompatible head stacks. We screen every donor before any head transplant happens on the 0.02 micron ULPA-filtered clean bench. The full breakdown of why each criterion matters across manufacturers is documented in our donor matching technical reference.
The label model (MHZ2160BH) is the entry filter. Firmware revision narrows it further, because a head swap needs a donor whose firmware microcode matches the patient's, not just the same model string on the label.
The head map records which physical heads are active and which were retired during factory test. Two drives that report the same capacity can carry different head maps. Reading the head map from PC-3000 against the patient's SA tells us whether the donor stack will track correctly on the patient's platters.
The preamp die sits on the head stack flex cable and conditions the analog signal before the read channel sees it. Preamp revisions change across production runs, so a donor stack has to carry the same preamplifier revision as the patient. Mismatch it and the drive fails to read its own service area and clicks.
Capacity points on Fujitsu drives were hit through different platter and head combinations across production runs. Two drives with the same capacity on the label can carry different platter counts, so the donor stack has to match the patient's head count.
The date code on the Fujitsu label encodes year, week, and manufacturing site. We pull donors as close to the patient's date code as the Fujitsu donor pool allows, on the same site code where possible, because internal components change across production runs inside one model line.
Even a perfect donor head stack carries the donor's factory adaptive parameters, not the patient's. After the swap we read the patient's adaptive data out of the original PCB's non-volatile memory and write it into the rebuilt drive before any imaging starts.
Why this matters for Fujitsu specifically. Fujitsu stopped HDD production in 2009. The donor pool is finite and shrinks every year. Burning a viable donor on a mismatched swap removes that donor from the pool permanently.
Before applying bench power to a recovered or donor Fujitsu PCB, we image the board with a FLIR thermal camera under a current-limited supply.
Hot spots flag failure paths that visual inspection misses: a shorted decoupling capacitor under the motor driver, or a cracked solder joint on the preamp power line. We cut power within a couple of seconds of seeing an anomalous thermal signature, rework the failed component, and re-image before the next power cycle. The full PC-3000 workflow once the board passes thermal QA is documented in our PC-3000 technical reference. The cross-manufacturer view of board-level diagnostics on legacy HDDs sits on our hard drive data recovery page.
Your Fujitsu drive stays in our Austin lab from intake through return. Every drive is logged, serialized, and tracked. Recovery work happens on isolated, air-gapped systems. We deliver recovered files on encrypted external media and securely erase every working copy once the case closes. The rest of our data security practices are published separately.
Legacy Fujitsu drives often contain irreplaceable business records, archived project data, personal collections from the early digital era, and enterprise data from decommissioned servers. These drives predate modern backup ecosystems; in many cases the data exists nowhere else.
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