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: Henderson, J. · 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.
An old external drive of family photographs stopped working. They were patient on the phone, clear on price, and recovered everything within four days. We're enormously grateful.
Our office RAID lost two drives in 24 hours. Bristol Data Recovery rebuilt the array and got us back to work by Monday morning. Professional from start to finish.
I run a small photography business — a wedding-shoot card corrupted and I was in tears. They recovered every single image. Worth every penny.
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.