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Every Device. Every Failure.

Data recovery services

Mechanical failure, electronic failure, firmware corruption, logical corruption, or human error — we recover data from all of it.

— Storage devices

We work on every storage device you own.

Whether your media is consumer-grade or enterprise, we have the tooling and expertise to recover it.

Internal HDDs

3.5" desktop drives, 2.5" laptop drives. Mechanical failure, bad sectors, firmware corruption, head crashes. Clean-room platter swap available.

SSDs & NVMe

2.5" SATA SSDs, M.2 SATA, M.2 NVMe, mSATA. Controller failures, NAND wear, TRIM complications, soldered-drive chip-off.

RAID Arrays

RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60. Hardware RAID controllers, software RAID (mdadm, Storage Spaces, ZFS). Multi-disk reconstruction.

External Drives

USB portable drives, Thunderbolt enclosures, eSATA. Logical recovery, USB bridge failures, dropped drives.

NAS & Servers

QNAP, Synology, Buffalo, Drobo, FreeNAS/TrueNAS, Windows Server, Linux. Off-site recovery options available.

Memory Cards

SD, microSD, CompactFlash, Memory Stick, XQD, CFast. Camera cards, drone footage, dashcams.

— Failure types

If your device has a problem, we've seen it.

Different failure types require different recovery approaches. Our engineers diagnose first, then choose the right tooling for the job.

Mechanical failure

Clicking sounds, grinding, drive not spinning, head crash. Requires physical intervention — opening the drive in our Class-100 clean room and replacing failed components with donor parts.

  • · Click of death (seized head)
  • · Platter scratch / scoring
  • · Motor failure (drive won't spin)
  • · Stiction (heads stuck on platters)

Logical failure

Drive sounds healthy but files are missing, corrupted, or inaccessible. Includes accidental format, deleted partitions, file system corruption, and bad sectors that prevent reading.

  • · Accidental delete / quick format
  • · Corrupted file system (NTFS, APFS, ext4)
  • · Bad sector cascade
  • · Lost or damaged partitions

Firmware failure

The drive's onboard software is corrupted — drive spins but isn't detected, or returns incorrect capacity. We rebuild or bypass firmware modules to recover the data.

  • · Drive not detected by BIOS
  • · Wrong capacity reported
  • · Firmware module corruption
  • · SED / encrypted drive issues

Electronic failure

Burnt PCB, failed power section, short circuit. We replace the controller board with a matching donor and sometimes need to emulate or transfer the adaptive data.

  • · Burnt PCB components
  • · Power surge damage
  • · Controller chip failure (SSD)
  • · Lightning / water damage
— How it works

Our 4-step recovery process.

Every job follows the same proven process — from drop-off to delivery of your recovered data.

1

Drop-off

Bring your device to our Midtown lab. We tag it with a work order and document initial condition.

2

Free diagnostic

Our engineers evaluate the device, identify the failure, and provide a firm quote — no charge if you decline.

3

Recovery

You approve the quote, we perform the recovery using the right tooling — physical, logical, or firmware-level.

4

Delivery

Recovered data goes onto a new drive or your preferred media, verified, and shipped or picked up.

Have a failed device? Let's take a look.

Free diagnostic, free quote. You only pay if we recover your data.

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