// york & north yorkshire · straight-talking data recovery

Data Recovery York

A hard drive that's started clicking, an SSD the machine no longer sees, a RAID that fell over mid-rebuild, a card of photos reading blank — bring it to the bench. Diagnosis costs nothing, the quote arrives fixed, and most jobs carry no fix, no fee.

Free diagnosis No fix, no fee on most jobs Fixed written quotes Post-in from anywhere in the UK
// the long and short of it

Diagnosed free. One fixed figure.

Post the device, hear what's recoverable and what it'll cost — then make your mind up. Nowt owed for finding out.

2 daysfree diagnostic, checked on the bench
20+ yrsof failed drives across this bench
No feeon most jobs where nothing comes back
UK-widetracked post straight to the lab

Finding out is always free. Diagnosis first, one fixed quote in writing second, work third — the full numbers sit on our data recovery prices page.

// what lands on the bench

One lab for every kind of failure

A snapped USB stick gets the same care as a forty-drive SAN: proper diagnosis, then one honest file recovery service covering the deleted, the damaged and the plain dead. Pick your device below, or ring up and describe what happened.

Hard Drive

Most failed drives arrive here with the same story: it clicked a few times, it…

SSD

SSD data recovery UK-wide is what tracked post buys you, though most of what lands on…

NVMe

NVMe sticks are the fastest consumer storage ever sold and the most abrupt about…

Memory Card

York earns a living being photographed — weddings at the Minster, tourists on the…

USB Stick / Flash Drive

The dissertation, the payroll, the only copy of the wedding — on a stick that bent in…

Laptop

Laptops pick their moments — dead the morning of the deadline, looping on the logo…

Desktop Computer

Every family's photo archive lives in a tower somewhere; every small firm's accounts…

Apple iMac

A grey screen that never moves on, a folder blinking its question mark, a chime and…

Apple MacBook

A MacBook rarely makes a fuss about dying: it declines the charger, or sleeps and…

External Drive

The rule holds on every desk in York: the drive carrying the only copy is the one…

NAS External Drive

The quiet box on the shelf held the company files and the family archive both — until…

CCTV / DVR

The camera saw it — then the recorder died, the loop rolled over the crucial week, or…

RAID Array

Degraded for months, then the second disk quit twenty minutes into the rebuild — or…

SAN

When shared storage stumbles, every server leaning on it goes down together. We…

Ransomware

You arrive to find every document wearing a strange extension and a demand note in…

BitLocker Drives

A blue screen demanding 48 digits nobody wrote down, standing between a business and…

Forensic Recovery

The laptop came back suspiciously clean, the leaver started with a competitor on…

// how it works

Dead drive to data back, four steps

step 01

Tell us what happened

Ring 0800 689 0668 or fill in the free online diagnostic — plain description, no jargon needed.

step 02

Get it to the bench

Post it tracked and insured to our Leeds location — next working day — or drive it over, 40-odd minutes down the A64.

step 03

Free diagnosis

Inside 2 working days of arrival you'll have the fault, the odds, and one fixed price in writing.

step 04

Files home again

Give the go-ahead and everything recovered travels back to you on an encrypted drive.

// getting your device to us

Sending it in — easier than you'd think

Nearly every job on our bench arrived by tracked, insured post — it's the quickest, safest route in. There's no collection service, so the parcel is yours to send or hand in.

Is the drive still inside a computer, laptop, MacBook, iMac, CCTV / DVR or server? Take the hard drive or SSD out first and post the bare drive on its own — removing drives from machines isn't a service we offer. Storage that's soldered to a motherboard (Apple Silicon Macs, certain slim laptops) is the one thing we can't work on: if it doesn't come out, it can't come in.

  • Bubble wrap and a sturdy box or padded envelope will do nicely — cables, caddies and power bricks can stay at home.
  • Print off the booking-in & shipping form (PDF), add your name, number and a line or two on what happened, and tuck it in the parcel.
  • Royal Mail Special Delivery keeps it tracked and insured the whole way; your own courier does the same job if you'd sooner book one. There's no collection service at this end.
  • Happier handing it over in person? Reception at the address here takes drop-offs, Mon–Fri 9:00am–5:30pm.
// where your device is headed

Leeds Data Recovery

17th Floor, The Pinnacle
Albion Street
Leeds, LS1 5AA

↓ Print the booking-in & shipping form (PDF)

Address the parcel for the attention of Leeds Data Recovery — about 40 minutes from York via the A64 and A1(M), or next working day by tracked post. You'll hear from us the moment it's booked onto the bench.

Not certain what to pack? Ring 0800 689 0668 first, or run the free online diagnostic.

// what customers say

Jobs that came good

★★★★★

"WD Passport with every photo of the kids on it, dropped on a tiled kitchen floor. It was clicking when I posted it Tuesday; by Friday I knew the lot was coming back. Sensible people, no drama."

Helen B · Selby
★★★★★

"Our practice server dropped a second disk halfway through a rebuild and our IT firm went quiet. These engineers imaged all four drives and handed back seven years of accounts. Can't fault them."

David P · Malton
★★★★★

"Final-year project on a USB stick that snapped clean off in the laptop. Straight answers on the phone, connector rebuilt, files back with photos of the repair as proof. Saved my degree, honestly."

Sophie K · Tadcaster
// frequently asked questions

Common questions

Nothing to begin with: the diagnostic is free, it establishes exactly what can come back, and the price lands as a single fixed quote in writing before anybody touches the job. Logical recoveries (deleted, formatted or corrupt data) are no fix, no fee. Drives with electronic, mechanical, physical, water or fire damage need invasive work, so 50% of the quote is payable upfront for the parts and lab time.
No York shopfront — the bench work happens at our Leeds location, and keeping it that way keeps the overheads out of your quote. There's no collection service either: post the device tracked and insured, or drive it over yourself — roughly 40 minutes from York down the A64 and A1(M), Mon–Fri 9:00am–5:30pm.
Whether you're inside the city walls or out at Selby, Malton, Ripon, Thirsk or Scarborough on the coast, there's no need to trail a failing drive round computer shops. Tracked post puts it at our Leeds location the next working day, the free diagnostic is done and dusted inside 2 working days of arrival — and a poorly drive travels far better in a padded box than bouncing about on a car seat.
Bubble wrap, a sturdy box, and a note inside carrying your name and phone number. Send it Royal Mail Special Delivery — tracked and insured — to Leeds Data Recovery, 17th Floor, The Pinnacle, Albion Street, Leeds, LS1 5AA, marked for the attention of Leeds Data Recovery. The phone call comes the moment it lands on the bench.
Give the free diagnostic 2 working days from the device arriving. Once you've given the nod, an ordinary job clears the bench inside the week; multi-drive arrays and physically damaged media want longer, and a business-down case can be moved to the front of the queue.
Regularly. A good share of the interesting work here is second opinions — be straight with us about what's already been attempted, because the recovery plan gets built around protecting whatever that first go left behind. The diagnostic stays free either way.
It is. Your device is signed into a secured lab and handled by our engineers alone, the whole job runs under GDPR, recovered files travel home encrypted, and the lab's own copies are wiped the moment you confirm everything's safely back with you.
// the patch we cover

North Yorkshire and well beyond

From the city walls out to Selby, Malton, Ripon, Thirsk and the coast, we provide the data recovery services York region homes and businesses keep coming back to — and because everything moves by tracked next-day post, we take on hard drive recovery UK wide as well, so a drive from Cornwall gets the same bench as one from Clifton. Business at a standstill? There's a plain-English guide to disaster recovery services in York on the blog.

Data gone? It’s rarely gone far.

Free diagnosis, one fixed figure, no fix no fee on most jobs — start online or pick up the phone.