Over twenty-five years of 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.
Some recovery firms quietly forward your drive to another lab — sometimes overseas. We don't. Every recovery is carried out by our own engineers in the UK, from the moment your drive arrives to the moment it's back with you.
All work is completed by our own engineers — never subcontracted to a third party.
Your drive, and your data, stays in the UK at every stage. It's never sent overseas.
Registered with the ICO (No. ZC173784) and fully GDPR-compliant, with NDAs on request.
Honest reviews from real Bristol clients — collected over a quarter-century.
We had a Qnap Raid 5 eight disk system. Two of the hard disk failed, we replaced disks and attempted a rebuild. After rebuild completed system would not start. We had business critical accounts, SQL Database and Exchange Database on Qnap server. Bristol Data Recovery provided us with reassurance from the start that they could recover the data. They got the system in on Thursday and we downloaded the SQL and Exchange files from them on Sunday afternoon so all staff could work as normal on Monday. 1st class customer service.
Our iMac crashed, the only data we needed on iMac was our Baby’s photos. We took iMac to the Apple store in Cabot Circus but they could not do anything. We searched online and came across yourselves. Service was honest, helpful and you delivered what you said you could deliver which was all my photos, Thanks You.
I needed some help with a sd card recovery after our camera got knocked into a stream by the kids. While the camera was insured, I was devastated to think we had lost all of the holiday pictures and of our wedding. I tried some data recovery software but it didn’t really work so I took the plunge to find a file recovery expert. I am so lucky I found Bristol Data Recovery, who restored pretty much all of it to a USB stick for me.
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 Bristol-based experience. Start a recovery today.