Stroud has some very creative industries; the old cloth mills to the studios and makers of the Five Valleys. At Bristol Data Recovery we are a 35-mile run down the M5. Recovering hard drives, SSDs, camera cards, NAS units and servers has been done in-house for over two decades. Drop off your drive or post it. A free diagnostic with a written quote first, and in most cases you only pay if we recover your data.
Around 35 miles: close enough to drop off, easy enough to post. That is approximately how far Stroud is from us here in Bristol.
Stroud lies in an area where five wooded valleys meet near the Cotswold Hills. Stroud is a small town of about 13,000 residents. However it serves as the central point of a larger area of roughly 120,000 residents. Stroud’s mill industry used to make fabric for use throughout the world. And that maker’s spirit continues today through what is now recognised as one of the strongest art and creative communities in the South West: photographers, designers, artists, musicians, small studios, the farmers’ market and numerous independent business owners.
All of this creative output exists on drives: libraries containing images, project files, portfolios and accounts. When these drives fail due to faulty hardware or software, years of creative output may be lost forever. But fortunately most drives that have stopped working contain all of their data. Typically the problem will exist with the electronics, the head(s), or the file system.
We are Bristol Data Recovery, approximately 35 miles down the M5, and have been recovering the exact same type of data for Stroud home users and business customers for over two decades. We recover hard drives, Solid State Drives (SSDs), flash memory devices (USB sticks, etc.), digital camera cards, Apple Mac computers, laptops, RAID disk arrays, Network Attached Storage (NAS) boxes and server systems. All of these items pass through our facility and are recovered completely in house.
Devices may be delivered directly to our facility in Bristol or sent via insured delivery. Each item received will have a complimentary written diagnostic and fixed quotation prior to commencement of any work. In addition, in most cases you only pay if we recover your data.
The four most common types of items we receive from Stroud and its surrounding valleys:
Whether you reside in Stroud proper or one of its many neighbouring towns such as Nailsworth or Painswick, the level of service provided remains consistent. Your item(s) can either be dropped off personally or posted to us via fully insured shipping.
From Stroud, travelling southbound on the M5 takes less than an hour. Drop your item off and go over what happened with us, or ship it in insured.
Simply contact us with the model name of the affected device(s), along with a description of how it became unusable, and we will inform you of approximately what we expect the cost to be prior to commencing any work.
Bring your equipment (device), or just the hard drive(s) if you are using a laptop, NAS or server, to our office at Bristol Monday to Friday, 9am to 5:30pm. Or send the device fully insured via the postal service.
We will review your device, typically within 48 hours, and provide a fixed written quote prior to commencing any repair/recovery services.
Once repaired/recovered, we will verify your data by comparing what has been recovered with a file listing; you may then pick up the recovered files in person, or have them posted back to you on new storage media.
Drop offs eliminate the need for posting. Many urgent recovery requests can be expedited; just ask when you call about the possibility of expediting your recovery request.
Snapshot of how we deal with data recovery for Stroud clients; all linked through to the details.
True client testimonials from our two-decade archive.
I would highly recommend Bristol Data Recovery to anyone needing a Professional Data Recovery Service. My Toshiba Laptop failed while on the train one afternoon. There was no warning and it did not get dropped. Bristol Data Recovery recovered everything from Toshiba Laptop within 48 hours. I was relieved as I am a self employed graphic designer and I had an Illustrator project on the hard drive.
We had a portable Western Digital Passport hard drive that was dead and would not connect to PC. I would like to say that the Recovery service was perfect from start to end, they managed to recover most of the data that we needed which was great.
Send us your device for a no-obligation free diagnostic and let us know what went wrong. One of our engineers will inspect it and confirm your exact quote in writing prior to doing any work.
To get started with recovering your data, first get your device to us. Wrap it securely, write your contact details on a slip of paper inside the package, include a brief description of what happened and post it to us. After running a complimentary diagnostic we will write to you confirming the exact price prior to starting work.
Do you want to post the device to us? We highly recommend using a trackable postal service with insurance. Would you prefer to deliver it yourself? That’s fine too. Our office hours for accepting deliveries are Monday to Friday, 9am to 5:30pm. Please make sure to wrap the device as described previously.
Need some additional information regarding our data recovery services? Fill out the form and provide further detail about your problem and one of our engineers will review it and offer you a personalised quote.
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We’re located in Bristol, which is approximately 35 miles down the M5, about a 50-minute journey from Stroud. We have been recovering data for both Stroud and the Five Valleys from this base for more than two decades. If you want to visit us personally you can drop your device off at our Bristol premises (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5:30pm); alternatively, if that’s too far away, then you can post it to us, fully insured.
Yes, it is probably one of the most frequent types of job we undertake. Whatever method your photographs were stored on (camera memory card; external hard drive; studio NAS etc.), we will endeavour to recover them appropriately and confirm the recovery by comparing the files we found against a file listing prior to their return. Stop using the damaged medium as quickly as possible and send it to us.
It doesn’t matter, whichever option works best for you. Stroud is merely a short trip down the M5, therefore many of our clients simply drop off the device; for laptops/NAS/servers please ensure you bring just the drive, labelled. Alternatively, you could send it via the postal system, fully insured & trackable. In either case you’ll receive a complimentary written diagnostic report plus a fixed price quotation first.
Throughout the whole area of Stroud and the surrounding Five Valleys (covering areas such as Nailsworth; Stonehouse; Painswick; Minchinhampton; Rodborough; Cainscross and Dursley), regardless of where you live within this area, you receive exactly the same level of service and prices.
Most cases can be recovered in around 3 to 4 working days with a free diagnostic being provided within 48 hours. As a general price point, USB sticks/memory cards generally start at £250 + VAT, whilst internal and external hard drive/SSD recovery generally starts at £300 + VAT, and RAID/NAS/server recovery starts at £500 + VAT, but all prices will be given as a fixed written quote prior to work commencing, and in most cases you only pay if we recover your data.
Free written diagnostic, in most cases you only pay if we recover your data, plus more than two decades of experience of recovering every type of storage, from camera memory cards right up to multi-bay studio RAID systems. Just drop it off, or post it to us insured.