// swansea & south west wales · data recovery specialists

Data Recovery Swansea

Failed hard drive, dead SSD, broken RAID or a memory card full of photos that vanished — our engineers recover it. Free diagnostic on every device, one fixed quote, most jobs no fix no fee.

Free diagnostics No fix, no fee most jobs Fixed quotes Post-in from anywhere
// the short version

Diagnosed free. Quoted fixed.

Send your device, get an engineer's diagnosis and one fixed price — then decide.

2 daysfree diagnostic turnaround
20+ yrslab experience
No feein most cases if data isn't recovered
UK-widetracked post-in service

Never pay to find out. The diagnostic is always free, the quote is fixed before any work starts — see our data recovery prices.

// devices we recover

Data recovery specialists for every failure

From a snapped USB stick to a multi-drive enterprise array — choose your device for details, or call and describe what happened.

Hard Drive

A hard drive that clicks, buzzes, won't spin or has quietly vanished from your…

SSD

An SSD gives you no clicking soundtrack before it dies — one restart and the drive…

NVMe

NVMe sticks are the quickest storage consumer machines have ever had, and the…

Memory Card

A camera that suddenly demands a format, a holiday's worth of photos that vanished…

USB Stick / Flash Drive

A whole dissertation, the company accounts, a decade of photos — trusted to a stick…

Laptop

Dead at the power button, looping at the logo, dropped on the stairs or christened…

Desktop Computer

The family tower that has held every photo since 2010, the workstation with the…

Apple iMac

The folder with the blinking question mark, the white screen that never moves on, the…

Apple MacBook

A MacBook rarely announces its failure — it just refuses to charge, or wake, or get…

External Drive

It's grimly reliable: the external drive holding the only copy is the one that slides…

NAS External Drive

The little box in the corner held everything — company files, the family archive, the…

CCTV / DVR

The break-in was on camera — and now the recorder won't boot, or the loop has…

RAID Array

The array ran degraded for months, then the second drive quit halfway through the…

SAN

Shared storage fails wholesale: one broken LUN and every server hanging off it goes…

Ransomware

Overnight, every document grew a strange extension and a payment demand appeared in…

BitLocker Drives

A blue recovery screen wants 48 digits nobody wrote down, and the drive behind it…

Forensic Recovery

The laptop came back empty, the ex-employee started at a competitor on Monday, and…

// how it works

Four steps to your data back

step 01

Get in touch

Call 0800 689 0668 or use the free online diagnostic to tell us what happened.

step 02

Post your device

Send it tracked to our Bristol receiving location — or have a courier collect from your door.

step 03

Free diagnosis

Within 2 working days of arrival you'll know the fault, what's recoverable and the fixed price.

step 04

Data returned

Approve the quote and your recovered files come back on an encrypted drive.

// getting your device to us

Post or courier your device — it's simple

Most customers post or courier their media to us.

Sending a drive from a computer, laptop, MacBook, iMac, CCTV / DVR or server? Please remove the internal hard drive or SSD and send us just the drive — we don't provide an internal drive-removal service. We don't recover storage soldered to a motherboard (e.g. Apple Silicon Macs and some thin laptops) — only drives that can be removed and sent to us.

  • Wrap the device in bubble wrap or a padded envelope — no need to include cables or power supplies.
  • Print and enclose the booking-in & shipping form (PDF) with your name, phone number and a brief description of what happened.
  • Send by Royal Mail Special Delivery or any tracked courier for full insurance in transit.
  • Prefer to hand it over in person? You can drop it in at reception at the address shown, Mon–Fri 9:00am–5:30pm.
// send your device to your nearest location

Bristol Data Recovery

Castlemead
Lower Castle Street
Bristol, BS1 3AG

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

Mark the package for the attention of Bristol Data Recovery and we'll call you as soon as we diagnose your media.

Not sure what to send? Call 0800 689 0668 first or use the free online diagnostic.

// what customers say

Recovered for real people

★★★★★

"External drive with 12 years of family photos stopped being detected. Posted it Monday, had the diagnosis Wednesday, everything back the following week. Worth every penny."

Rachel T · Llanelli
★★★★★

"Our office NAS dropped two drives and the IT company said it was gone. These guys rebuilt the array and recovered the lot — invoices, CAD files, the works. Business saved."

Mark H · Neath
★★★★★

"Dissertation on a snapped USB stick two weeks before the deadline. They repaired the connector and emailed to say it was all there. Fast, honest and clearly explained."

Amy W · Port Talbot
// frequently asked questions

Common questions

Every job starts with a free diagnostic — we assess the device, tell you exactly what's recoverable, and give you one fixed quote in writing before any work begins. 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.
We operate a post-in and courier service for Swansea rather than a walk-in shop. You can post it, have it collected by courier (several courier services can be booked online), or drop it at the lab reception in person, Mon–Fri 9:00am–5:30pm.
Wherever you are in Swansea, Llanelli, Neath, Port Talbot, Bridgend, Carmarthen or across South and West Wales, you don't need to track down a local shop — a free tracked post-in or courier collection brings your device to our Bristol location next day and the free diagnostic starts within 2 working days. For most failures that's faster and safer than driving a failing drive around town looking for data recovery near you.
Wrap the device in bubble wrap, include a note with your name and phone number, and send it by Royal Mail Special Delivery or tracked courier to our receiving lab: Bristol Data Recovery, Castlemead, Lower Castle Street, Bristol, BS1 3AG — marked for the attention of Bristol Data Recovery. We call you the moment it arrives.
The free diagnostic completes within 2 working days of your device arriving. Most standard recoveries finish inside a week of your go-ahead; complex RAID or physically damaged jobs can take longer, and urgent business cases can be prioritised.
Frequently, yes. Second-opinion recoveries are a regular part of our work — tell us what's already been attempted and we'll plan the safest approach for what remains. The diagnostic is still free.
Completely. Devices are logged into a secure lab, your data is handled under GDPR by our engineers only, recovered files are returned on an encrypted drive, and our working copies are securely wiped once you confirm everything is safely back.
// areas we serve

Local to South Wales & beyond

Post-in and courier service covering Swansea and the surrounding towns — from HDD recovery in Swansea city centre to laptop recovery across South Wales — and the rest of the UK via tracked next-day post. Business down? Read our guide to disaster recovery services in Swansea.

Lost data? Let’s get it back.

Free diagnostic, fixed quote, no fix no fee — start now or call the freephone.