Working from central Edinburgh, we recover failed drives and SSDs, broken RAID and NAS units, dead flash media and forensic evidence — for households and businesses right across the country — from creative studios and tech firms to households with one irreplaceable folder. As Edinburgh’s secure data recovery experts, we handle all of it on our own bench — diagnosis free, nothing owed on most jobs unless it works, and a fixed price agreed in writing first.
$ edr diagnose /dev/sdb → Device: Seagate BarraCuda 2 TB → Status: BUZZING — seized, not recognised → Client: confidential · Edinburgh $ edr engineer-working → Read-write heads: replaced from donor → Spindle: released, platters clean → Imaging: 98% · 72 hours $ edr verify → ✓ shoot_RAW — recovered → ✓ client_galleries — safe → ✓ drive — recovered
A few write-ups from the Princes Street bench this past while — identifying details held back, every result verified before it left the lab.
The heads had stopped flying and the drive sat silent. Matched donor heads went in under clean-air conditions, a careful image was pulled past the fault, and the file tree was rebuilt from the copy rather than the ailing original.
We cloned the card forensically before anything touched it directly, then rebuilt the file system on the copy with a deep carve running behind it for anything the fault had orphaned. Every frame came back.
Both drives were imaged past their bad sectors, the array reassembled virtually from whichever image held the healthiest copy of each region, and the file system repaired on top. The shared drive came back whole.
A lot of recovery firms quietly courier your drive off to a third-party lab — occasionally to another country entirely. That never happens here. Every recovery is worked from first look to final handover by our own engineers on Princes Street, and your media stays in Scotland the whole way through.
Every job stays with our engineers — nothing is passed to a subcontractor or another lab.
Your drive and its data remain in Scotland at every step — never posted abroad, never handed off elsewhere.
Registered with the ICO (No. ZC173784) and fully GDPR-compliant, with an NDA available whenever you need one.
A seized desktop drive. A NAS caught mid-rebuild. A snapped USB stick. A ransom note on a server. However it reached you, our data recovery services usually reach it the same way — imaged first, worked in-house — and it usually goes home again.
There’s no call-centre here and no drive quietly posted elsewhere — just an Edinburgh data recovery service staffed by our own engineers, twenty-five years at the bench, and the equipment and patience to take on the cases other firms hand back.
On the majority of jobs nothing is owed unless we recover — and you see a full file listing to check before you commit a penny.
Your drive is opened and imaged here in Scotland by our own team — never subcontracted, never sent away.
A no-obligation diagnostic and a fixed price in writing before anything begins, so nothing on the invoice is a surprise.
Bring your device to the Princes Street lab Mon–Fri 9am–6pm, or send it insured and tracked from anywhere.
Decades of bench experience, each job taken in turn — no queue-jumping, no shortcuts.
Walk your device into the Princes Street lab, Mon–Fri 9am–6pm, or post it to us from anywhere in the country. Fully insured postal recovery covers the whole of the UK.
A diagnosis that costs nothing, no fee on most jobs unless it works, and twenty-five years of bench experience a few doors down Princes Street. Begin whenever you’re ready.