Over twenty-five years of data recovery in Bristol and across the South West — recovering hard drives, SSDs, RAID arrays, NAS units and forensic evidence, handled in-house. Free diagnostic, no-fix-no-fee, written quote before any work begins.
$ bdr diagnose /dev/sda → Device: Seagate ST2000DM008 (2 TB) → Status: CLICKING — head stack failure → Client: confidential · Clifton BS8 $ bdr engineer-working → Donor PCB matched: 100A4544 rev D → Head-stack swap: complete → Imaging: 1.78 TB / 1.81 TB (98.3%) $ bdr verify → ✓ wedding_photos — 142,318 files → ✓ tax_records — 4,201 files → ✓ everything else — back home
A snapshot of recent work from the bench. Names redacted, results verified.
Synology arrived with two drives reporting bad sectors and the volume crashed. We imaged all four members, reconstructed the Btrfs metadata, and returned a complete file tree.
Classic head-stack failure following physical impact. Sourced a matching donor, performed an in-house head-stack swap, and imaged the drive successfully on the second attempt.
Imaged all five drives independently, reconstructed parity offline, then rebuilt a virtual array from the images. Recovered NTFS volume with all client files intact and forensically logged.
Every case is handled start to finish by our own engineers — never handed to a third-party lab, and never sent overseas. We've been recovering data since 2002, and twenty-plus years of dead drives, collapsed RAID arrays and corrupted memory cards means we can usually tell within hours whether yours can be saved.
Every job is completed by our own engineers — never subcontracted to a third party or shipped abroad.
Twenty-plus years across hard drives, SSDs, RAID and NAS, servers and memory cards — the experience to spot quickly what's recoverable.
Registered with the ICO (No. ZC173784) and fully GDPR-compliant, with NDAs available on request for sensitive work.
From a clicking 3.5" SATA drive to a four-disk Synology NAS, a snapped USB stick to a ransomware-encrypted server — we have the tools, the parts and the time.
Not just another data recovery company. Over 25 years' experience with the equipment and patience to recover from failures other companies turn away.
We send you a file listing so you can verify the data.
We never outsource work, all work is completed by ourselves.
You get a clear, written quote before any work begins. Zero obligation.
Bring your device to us in Bristol Mon–Fri 9am–5:30pm, or post it to us insured.
Our engineers have decades of experience, working through queue position by queue position.
Drop your device off with us in Bristol Mon–Fri 9am–5:30pm, or post it to us. Insured UK-wide postal recovery available.
Free written diagnostic, no fix, no fee on most jobs, over 25 years of data recovery in Bristol. Start a recovery today.