Around one of the largest natural harbours in the world, Poole runs on data — from marine and boating businesses to the homes along the shore. We're Bristol Data Recovery, with over 25 years on hard drives, SSDs, NAS units and servers. No need to travel: post your device in fully insured, and we return it the same way. Free diagnostic, no fix no fee on most jobs.
Around 75 miles from Poole Harbour to our Bristol bench — so we've made posting in simple, insured and fully tracked.
Poole is built around its harbour — one of the largest natural harbours in the world — and everything that comes with it: a major marine and boating industry, the luxury enclave of Sandbanks, the RNLI's national headquarters, a busy ferry port and a town of around 150,000 people. It's a place of boatyards and businesses, holiday homes and family homes, all generating data worth keeping.
When the storage holding it fails — a dropped external, a dead SSD, a card that comes up blank, a failed business array — it can feel like the data is gone. In our experience it usually isn't. Most failed drives still hold their data perfectly; the fault is in the electronics, the heads or the file system.
We're Bristol Data Recovery, around 75 miles from the Dorset coast, and we've recovered exactly this kind of data for Poole homes and businesses for over 25 years. Hard drives, SSDs, USB sticks, camera cards, Macs, laptops, RAID arrays, NAS boxes and servers all cross our bench.
The distance changes nothing about the result — only the logistics, and we've made those painless. Post your device in fully insured and tracked, and we return it the same way. Every job opens with a free written diagnostic and a fixed quote, and on most jobs it's no fix, no fee.
Six of the jobs that come in most often from the Dorset coast.
No collection service, and no need for one. The post is quick, insured and tracked, and you keep your device until the moment you send it.
Call or message us with the device and the fault, and we'll tell you the likely cost and how to pack it.
Wrap it so nothing can move. For laptops, NAS and servers, take the drive or drives out and send just the drives, labelled.
Royal Mail Special Delivery or a courier both work. Include your name, address, phone and email so we can quote.
We diagnose within 48 hours, recover, verify against a file listing, and post your data back on fresh storage with free next-day shipping.
Posting adds about a day each way. Urgent business cases can often be prioritised — just say so when you call.
A snapshot of what we handle for Poole customers — each links to the detail.
From Sandbanks round to Hamworthy and out towards Wimborne, the process is the same: post it in fully insured, and we return it the same way.
A few words from customers we've helped around the harbour.
My external drive of family photos stopped being recognised. I posted it from Parkstone, had a quote the next day and everything back within the week. Faultless.
SSD in my laptop died with no warning. Clear pricing, no jargon, and my work files were back within four days. Posting from Poole was straightforward.
Our business NAS failed with two drives down. They reconstructed it from the disks and recovered every file. Professional and reassuring from start to finish.
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Send us your device for a free diagnostic, and tell us a little about what happened — an engineer will review it and confirm your exact quote in writing before any work begins.
Recovering your data starts with getting the device to us. Pack it safely, add your contact details, and send it over — after we run a free diagnostic, we’ll confirm your exact price in writing before any work begins.
Posting it in? We recommend a tracked, insured service. Prefer to drop it off? You’re welcome Monday–Friday, 9am–5:30pm — please still package the device as above.
If you need more information on our data recovery service, fill out the form with more detail about your issue and an engineer will review it and give you a custom quote.
We’ll be in touch shortly. For anything urgent, call 0117 332 1137.
No — we're based in Bristol, around 75 miles from the Dorset coast, and we serve Poole and the wider area from there. There's no need to travel: post your device to us fully insured and tracked, and we return it the same way.
Pack it so nothing can move, then post it fully insured and tracked — Royal Mail Special Delivery or a courier both work. For laptops, NAS units and servers, take the drive or drives out first and send just the drives, labelled with their order. Include your name, address, phone and email so we can book it in and quote first.
Often, yes — but don't power it up or dry it with heat, as that can cause more damage. Get it to us and we'll assess it. Drives that have met salt water or damp are recovered routinely as long as they haven't been run while still wet.
All of Poole and the harbour area — including Sandbanks, Parkstone, Branksome, Canford Cliffs, Hamworthy, Broadstone and Upton, plus Wimborne and Wareham. The service and pricing are the same wherever you are.
Most jobs are recovered within 3 to 4 working days once your device reaches us, with the free diagnostic usually done inside 48 hours; posting adds about a day each way. As a guide, USB sticks and memory cards start from £250 + VAT, hard drives and SSDs from £300 + VAT, and RAID, NAS and servers from £500 + VAT — always with a fixed written quote first.
Free written diagnostic, no fix no fee on most jobs, and over 25 years of recovering the irreplaceable. Post it in fully insured from anywhere around the harbour.