Edinburgh Data Recovery · est. 2002

Edinburgh's data recovery specialists.

Working from our office at South Gyle in west Edinburgh, we recover damaged devices such as failed hard disk drives (HDD), solid state disks (SSD), failed RAID and NAS arrays, dead flash memory devices and forensic evidence for individuals and companies throughout the UK, ranging from creative studios and tech firms to households with a single irreplaceable folder. We are Edinburgh's secure data recovery experts and deal with all this work in-house: diagnosis is free, in most cases you only pay if we recover your data, and we will quote a fixed price by written agreement before any work is done.

20+ years at the bench
Only pay if we recover your data, on most jobs
Quote first, then walk in or post it
25y+
Years' experience
95–99%
Success rate
100%
Recovered in-house
Free
Diagnostic & quote
// data recovery near me

Searching for data recovery near me?

If you are located in Edinburgh, or anywhere throughout Scotland, looking for data recovery services near me, you have come to the best laboratory. Our lab covers hard drive data recovery near me, along with solid state drives (SSDs), RAID arrays, network attached storage (NAS) devices, memory card recovery, USB flash drive recovery and external hard drives.

To receive a quote first, simply contact us via telephone or complete the quotation request form provided. Once you have received your quotation, please drop off your device at our laboratory (no appointment required). Please note that our hours of operation for dropping off devices are Monday to Friday, 9am to 5:30pm. Alternatively, you can send your device by post from anywhere within the region. Regardless of whether you were looking for “hard drive recovery near me” or specifically for hard drive recovery Edinburgh, you will be working directly with a local team who provide complimentary diagnostics, and in most cases you only pay if we recover your data.

// scotland’s data recovery experts

Scotland’s data recovery specialists.

We are Edinburgh-based data recovery experts, a data recovery specialist that serves residential customers and business clients throughout Scotland as well as the wider United Kingdom. Regardless of what term you use to describe your device (a hard drive, a hard disk or a harddisk), our specialist data recovery can handle data recovery harddisk, SSD, RAID and server cases in-house, without ever sending your data out.

From a single failed hard disk to an important business server, every project begins with a complimentary diagnostic and a fixed written price quote, and in most cases you only pay if we recover your data: actual data recovery UK-wide by post.

✓Never sent to a third-party lab
✓Your data is never outsourced
✓Only pay if we recover your data, on most jobs
✓Diagnosis back within 48 hours
✓ICO-registered, GDPR compliant
✓A firm price before work starts
// recent recoveries

Recent jobs, off the Edinburgh bench.

A few of the write-ups we have done recently from the South Gyle bench: identification details omitted, but each result is verified prior to leaving the lab.

// CASE 2026-031recovered
Desktop HDDNTFSHead failure

A read/write head gave out on a customer’s desktop drive, sealing off a decade of family photos behind it.

The heads were no longer flying and the drive was silent. The matching donor heads were fitted on the bench, a very accurate image was created past where the failure occurred, and then the file tree was recreated from the copy and not from the original failing device.

// CASE 2026-027recovered
SanDisk 512GBSD cardNot reading

A wedding photographer’s card stopped mounting the morning after the shoot — nothing deleted, nothing formatted, just gone.

Prior to touching it directly, we forensically cloned the card and then rebuilt the file system on that clone, with a deep carve running behind it to find anything the fault had left orphaned. All frames were recovered.

// CASE 2026-019recovered
NETGEAR ReadyNASRAID 1Two red lights

Two red lights on an Edinburgh architecture firm’s mirror, then a DIY rebuild that overwrote its own metadata.

The two drives were both imaged through their bad sectors, the array was reassembled virtually by taking the healthiest copy of each area from either image, and the file system was repaired on top. The shared drive was recovered completely.

// worked by our own team

Recovered in-house, never outsourced.

Beginning with the first look and ending with the final handover, each job we undertake will be worked by our own engineers (not a third-party laboratory or subcontractors). Since 2002, we have recovered data from failed disks, broken RAID sets and unreadable memory cards, and those two decades of experience sit behind each recovery we take on.

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One team, start to finish

All jobs are completed using our internal staff of engineers: we do not contract out this work to other labs, nor to subcontractors.

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Two decades in data recovery

The knowledge that allows us to quickly determine whether your data can be recovered has been developed since 2002, across hard drives, solid state drives, RAID and NAS systems, servers and memory cards.

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ICO-registered & GDPR

We are registered with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO, No. ZC173784) and we are fully compliant with all aspects of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). If necessary, we also have a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) available for use.

// devices & services

Every device, every way it fails.

A desktop drive that has seized. A Network Attached Storage (NAS) device caught in the middle of rebuilding itself. A snapped USB stick. A ransom note on a server. Regardless of how it happened, our data recovery services typically get to it the same way (it is imaged first and all work is done in-house), and it will usually head back home.

// why edinburgh data recovery

Two decades of the recoveries other labs wouldn’t attempt.

Unlike some companies who outsource their work to a third-party lab or operate a call centre, there is only us, an Edinburgh-based company providing data recovery services run by our in-house engineers who have been at the bench for twenty years, with the necessary hardware and patience to undertake jobs that others send back.

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Only pay if we recover your data, on most jobs

In most cases you only pay if we recover your data, and also you get to look at an entire list of all files that were recovered for you before you even spend a single penny.

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Handled by our own team

We open and image your drive ourselves using our own staff, never through some third party.

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A free, written diagnostic

You will receive a fixed written price and a no-obligation assessment before we do anything else, so you won't be surprised when you look at the bill.

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Quote first, then walk in or post it

Get a quote first over the telephone or with the form, then drop off your unit at our South Gyle office, Monday to Friday 9am to 5:30pm, without making an appointment, or post us the unit insured and tracked from anywhere.

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// how long it takes

Typical jobs are finished and returned 3–4 working days after you approve the quote.

Decades of bench experience with each job taken in turn. We do not jump the queue or take short cuts.

3–4
Working days avg.
48 hr
To first diagnosis
Free
To look it over
100%
Scotland-based work
1–2
Days, quote to done
Free
Return postage
// locations

Rooted in Edinburgh, reaching across Scotland.

Get a quote first, by phone or using the form, then drop your device off at our South Gyle location (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5:30pm) without the need for an appointment, or post it from anywhere in the country. Fully insured postal recovery covers the entire UK.

// ready when you are

The data hasn’t gone anywhere. Let’s get it back.

Free diagnosis. We have twenty years of bench experience behind each job. In most cases, you only pay if we recover your data. Begin whenever you’re ready.

Call us — 0131 202 0491
Mon–Fri · 9am–5:30pm · No fix, no fee
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