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Abc Data Recovery Ltd with it own ISO-3 certified labs in Sheffield, and a growing network of remote assessment centers and IT partners nationally including Manchester, Hull, Southampton and London are relied on by IT Support professionals throughout the UK, Europe and Worldwide and are now open direct to the public at our secure data recovery center located here .
If you have experienced problems elswhere then rest assured if your data can be recovered and has been condemned as "beyond recovery" elsewhere check with our technicians for a second opinion.
We also operate a growing national network of Data Recovery hard drive assessment centers, using our Remote Data Recovery tool, if you are an IT Department, IT support company or PC Repair workshop consider joining our reseller programme in order to qualify for the free trial of the remote data recovery unit. T&C's apply
We are now being found by more home users and businesses for:
Helping Call Centres, Schools, Hospitals, Film Companies, Musicians, Students and Home Users.
We recover any form of data storage from a HD - Hard Disk Drive to Network attached storage NAS Server attached SAS and all forms of Raid Storage. We have over 100TB and increasing (5 x 42u IBM server racks ) plus secure data center storage for long term archiving or data backup.
Our high capacity system enables the day to day recovery and processing of hard drive images (imaging of the majority of drives is carried out in an attempt to keep costs down and reduce the likelyhood of a complete rebuild being required ) .
This also enables the us to compete at all levels but offer a better service and cope with emergency work far more economically than our competitors..
The lab, clean room, offices and server room are all within a secure compound guarded by 24 hour on site security.
Data recovery inc server raid array repairs / rebuilds. Dell Servers -Poweredge , Hp Servers, Supermicro servers,




Database repair including Access , Lotus Domino Exchange and Sql / MySql is a core section of our business. Andy Butler (hence abc) and his team are worldwide leaders in providing data recovery services including VMS Data Recovery.
We have a combined range of skills and trusted proven experience in recovering and salvaging lost data from disaster stricken hard drives, RAID Arrays, laptops, e-mails, PDA's, Ipods and storage media of every brand, manufacturer, model and size.
Our hard drive data recovery, RAID data recovery and flash / SSD data recovery experts are not only experienced and retained by international data recovery companies but also have the capacity and facilities to offer discount data recovery services and are used by home users and small business as a cost effective service able to save their clients substantial sums of money as well as time.

Our corporate emergency services for business continuity are second to none, and we not only save time but also money and have saved our clients in excess of £500,000 sbetween 2005 and 2008 on our competitors prices and have been instrumental in bringing down the cost of data recovery in the UK .
State-of-the-art tools and an in-depth knowledge provide you with the first class expertise and the facilities you expect to be paying for not just an overinflated software user who could be putting your data at risk.
That is why more and more PC shops, IT Administrators and IT Support professionals are joining abc Data Recovery’s growing list of forensic investigators and data recovery resellers who appreciate the investment in staff, facilities, security and R&D that has enabled this young company to match and even beat the success rates of labs and clinics in London and Manchester for a fraction of the price.
With R&D which produces innovative Recovery Solutions for all types of storage media and file systems in the case of data loss especially on server and raid array recovery . The abc Data Recovery team are dedicated to providing you with an unmatchable ,high quality RAID recovery service which is committed to data recovery success.
Our top priority and main business goal is to remedy as many unfortunate situations our clients find themselves in and, fully salvage data quickly, professionally and economically. Abc Data Recovery is helping its clients to bring lost data to their finger tips with a no data no fee policy."If We Don’t Recover Data, You Don’t Pay !" *
Our data recovery process involves an initial free assessment of the drive failure or file access problems, arranging courier collection customer liaison, cost effective recovery of the data, including return and even onsite restoration of the data or remote desktop support as well as return of the data on replacement drive (s), memory stick , DVD or Emergency download by secure FTP from our data centres at Derby or Sheffield. When your storage media arrives at our Security House Data Recovery Clinic, we assess the extent of the damaged media free of cost.
We will not initiate any work towards the recovery process without prior consent after an agreed price is confirmed and any parts needed if required will be sourced at cost parts normally cost between £50 and £100. In order to ensure the correct format of data, strict quality process is applied during this process. Recovered data will be copied on the media of your choice and will be returned / collected.It does not matter how data loss occurs. we do not use data recovery software on your storage device we have a strict system of imaging repaired or degraded drives and then working on the more stable imaged drive.
We provide data recovery services for hard drives and RAID arrays including NAS and SAN suffering from catastrophic situations all within our own data recovery labs which have IS0 3 clean room facilities, micro electronics facilities and high capacity imaging and data recovery equipment all to ensure that every type of data recovery problem can be actioned and processed within the specified times as a matter of routine.
Offering such a cost effective service for server and RAID recovery work we now supply our services to many of the data recovery companies accross the Uk and abroad and can be undertaken at a substantial discount to any of our rivals who do not have the facilities necessary to help with flood, fire or electrical damage that we have.
All data loss problems are catered for from accidental deletion, formatting, hard drive crash, hard ware failure, causing corruption to the data or inaccessibility.All envisaged calamities from dropping a laptop or external drive, inadvertent formatting or deliberate malicious file removal inc virus attack or as we saw on a regular basis Flood damage , moisture or other liquid ingress (coffee, tea wine accidentally poured over laptop), electrical surges/outages, static discharge. Fire, heat, smoke and equipment malfunctions inc deliberate vandalism.
If you have lost your mission critical data then we offer all sorts of recovery including hard disk data recovery and RAID Recovery, e-mail recovery. We excel in recovering data from hard disk drive and RAID models and all other portable media devices.Abc Data Recovery Ltd clients include Government Department, Local Authorities, Hospitals, Schools, International, National and local business including home businesses offers all the data recovery services needed in our own labs to recover your valuable data from damaged hard drive and RAID arrays.
Abc Data Recovery Ltd now have a larger home user market since we opened our Security House labs which enabled us to bring the price of data recovery down wherever possible.This has ensured year on year growth and profitability to ensure continued investment in the future of data recovery in the UK and Europe. We do not advertise the well known companies or individuals who have used our data recovery services but on occassion we do find time to put up a data recovery testimonial.
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We also no offer a free data back up trial to ensure data recovery and its effects are kept to a minimum. Always remember all backup tasks inc tape backup needs to be checked for integrity on regular basis and do not try to recover your lost hard drive data by using recovery utilities or software until you are sure you have identified the specific problem, we are seeing a greater incidence of severe data corruption of drive failure and degradation due to the use of such software.
Some companies charge an assessment fee regardless of whether they can do the work or not and often have no intention of attempting the recovery so do contact us if you come across such companies.. we are collating a list for submission to the DTI as part of an industry wide research paper into dubious practice in the data recovery industry... if you have any stories of inadequate service or possible mishandling of your case or data contact andy@abcdatarecovery.co.uk f you have already heard the phrase “if we cannot do it nobody can” then again fill out our contact form and attach any information about the data recovery work undertaken , we have a very high incidence of getting data back from servers and hard drives other data recovery companies could not.*T&C’s apply in certain circumstances.
abc Data Recovery Services routinely recover from the following errors|:-Hardware faults & software corruption for data recovery or repair:
UNC Un correctable Data Error - Maxtor Seagate Western Digital SATA
Mains Power Surge - No spin on disk drive motor| seized spindle
Reversed power polarity | voltage supply from incorrectly plugging in power | over voltage / voltage overload / power surge
Burnt out PCB circuit board due to power surge | voltage spike repair
Faulty | Noisy | Grinding | Clicking | Ticking | Hard Disk | Hard Disc | Hard Drive
Fixed Disk| Hard Disk Drive not seen in BIOS
Fix Broken Pin or Pins on the IDE SATA SCSI Cable Connector
Formatted Hard Disk Drives | Accidental Deletions | Format errors | CHKdsk
Broken | Bent USB Connector or Broken Sata Connector
USB Device Not Recognized | Direct read Nand chip reader
USB Flash Drive no longer flashes when inserted into the computer
USB Flash Disk | Drive LED Light does not light up | overheat | over voltage problems from USB hub and requires repair
USB Disk was dropped and no longer works or recognised
Fix broken USB Connector Pins or remove flash memory from damaged stick to recover data USB Flash Drives | MMC Memory Cards | and CompactFlash
Abc Data Recovery offer the following services :- Data Recovery | File Recovery | Repair Capabilities | Secure Wiping |DOD data destruction | Hard drive Spares |Hard Drive Recycling (send your drive to us for secure wiping just £10 discounts for larger quantities – send list of your drives for a quote )
Abc Data Recovery work on the following operating / file systems:- Mac OSX ,Windows 2000 XP Vista File Data Recovery File systems Fat | Fat 16 | Fat32 | NTFS Compressed Converted Reformatted Disk Partitions Linux Unix Data Recovery | Ubuntu | Red Hat | SuSE | MandrakeSoft | Debian | Solaris Slackware | RH | |
File systems :- JFS | ReiserFS and XFS | ext2 ReiserFS and XFS ext3 Apple | Mac | AppleMac | XServe | OSx | OS X | HFS | HFS+ | ZFS
The following are just some of the units we work on in order to fix the drive , the file system or the entire unit / housing itself :-
Buffalo ( buffalo bufalo bufallo ) buffalotech LinkStation Mini™ | LinkStation EZ ™ | LinkStation Live ™ | LinkStation Pro ™ | LinkStation Pro Duo ™ | TeraStation Live ™ | TeraStation Pro ™ II | TeraStation Pro ™ II Rackmount | TeraStation Pro ™ II iSCSI Storage System | TeraStation Pro ™ II iSCSI Rackmount Storage System | DriveStation ™ TurboUSB | DriveStation ™ Combo TurboUSB | DriveStation ™ TurboUSB (2x500) | DriveStation Duo ™ | DriveStation Quattro ™ TurboUSB | DriveStation ™ Combo 4 | Mini Station ™ TurboUSB Portable Hard Drive (HD-PS series) | MiniStation ™ DataVault Portable Hard Drive with Full Disk Encryption | MiniStation ™ TurboUSB Portable Hard Drive (HD-PF series) | MediaStation ™ External Blu-ray HD DVD Combo D | Tiny 1TB LinkStation Mini NAS...
D-Link | DSM-G600 MediaLounge Wireless Network Storage Enclosure | DNS-321 | DNS-323 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure | ,DNS-343 | 4-Bay Network Storage Enclosure | xStack Storage | DSN-2100-10 | DSN-3200-20 | DSN-3400-20 | DSN-3200-10 | DSN-3400-10
Iomega eSATA/USB, USB, USB eGo, USB/FireWire eGo, USB/FireWire, 360GB Home Network Hard Drive (NAS), 1.5TB USB 2.0/FireWire® 400/800, UltraMax Pro Hard Drive, Silver Series Portable Hard Drive, Media Xporter, ScreenPlay, DVR ExpanderDVR, Expander, REV Drives for PC/Mac, REV Disks, REV Loaders, Small/Home Office, soho, Small/Medium Business, SMB,
![]() | Failed hard drives Deleted Files Following re-installationf the OS Following System Restore Formatted drives Recover Lost Passwords from files Remove Passwords from the OS Recover Outlook/Outlook Express emails Recover Exchange and SQL | ![]() |
Freecom ToughDrive 2.5, ToughDrive Pro 2.5, FHD-2 Pro 2.5, Mobile Drive Pro 2.5, Mobile Drive 2.5, Hard Drive 3.5, Data Tank 3.5, Hard Drive PRO 3.5" USB 2.0 & Esata, Hard Drive XL, Data Tank, Network Drive, Network Drive PRO, Storage Gateway, USBCard, USB Card, DATABAR USB STICK, DATA BAR USB STICK, EXTERNAL MOBILE HARD DRIVES FOR MAC NetGear ReadyNAS Pro, ReadyNAS NV+, Storage Central, ReadyNAS Duo, ReadyNAS 1100,
The following units and manufacturers are all catered for at our Sheffield Headquarters located at Security House ☎ 0845 2002 845 ☎
NetGear LACIE NAS Network Storage Data Recovery
Data Recovery Repair Rebuild RAID Striped RAID-0 RAID-5 RAID-6 RAID-10 RAID50 RAID-60 JBOD
Finalize DVD Handcam Camcorder Video Disk Recovery
Sony Panasonic Hitachi Canon Samsung DVD Video Camcorder Recovery
JVC Sony Hard Disk Drive HDD Handy cam Camcorder Video Recovery
Memorex TDK DVD Disk Video Recovery Repair
Mini-DVD camcorder Disc | Disk | Drive access error
Finalise DVD Disc | Disk | Drive
Unplayable corrupt Digital video file repair
3.25" 5.25" inch Floppy Disks files CD Transfer & Data Recovery
SyQuest Disk Cartridge Data Recovery & CD DVD Transfer
MO Magneto Optical Disk Data Recovery & CD DVD Transfer inc 9.1Gb 8.6GB
Forgotten or Lost Password Removal is catered for on systems and files use the Contact Form The following storage drives are routinely repaired or recovered by abc Data Recovery and their dedicated technicians including hard drive specialists, electronic / microelectronic repair / hard drive rebuild and memory stick repair specialists who all can attend to different levels of data recovery be it a server raid array or a memory stick. :-
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LaCie BigDisk 1TB | 2TB | LaCie Ethernet Disk mini - Home Edition 500GB | LaCie Ethernet Disk mini | LaCie 2big Network (2-disk RAID) | LaCie Ethernet Disk | LaCie Ethernet Disk RAID | LaCie Little Disk | LaCie Rugged Hard Disk | LaCie Skwarim | LaCie Mobile Disk | LaCie Little Big Disk Quadra | LaCie USB Key Max | LaCie silverscreen | LaCie LaCinema Premier | LaCie d2 Quadra Hard Disk | LaCie Big Disk Extreme+ Triple | Dual | LaCie Golden Disk | LaCie Brick Desktop Hard Drive | LaCie d2 SAFE Hard Drive | Removal of fingerprint access control.10GB | 20GB | 30GB| 40GB | 60GB | 70GB | 80GB | 120GB | 160GB | 200GB 7200 rpm | 250GB | 300GB | 320GB | 400GB | 450GB | 500GB | 640GB | 750GB | 1TB | 1.5TB |2TB | 3TB | 4TB Iomega 100MB 250MB ZIP Jaz 1GB 2GB disk data recovery LaCie LaCinema External Hard Disk Drive
CD Disk Transfer | CD-ROM | CD-R | CD-RW miniCD mini CD | Digital Camera's Flash Card Photo image recovery.
Deleted Photo Recovery.The following photo / file services are available through the online contact form:-
Handy cam DVD | File Repair | Digital Photos | CD DVD Floppy Disks | DiscsDigital Camera photos (Deleted | Formatted) recovered.Camcorders digital video DVD (home & professional).
Email | PST | mdb | dbx sdb,abook, Upload corrupt files using our Contact Form including :- Microsoft Word | Excel | PowerPoint | Access file repair. Undelete files. File inaccessible. Floppy Disks | CD DVD ZIP File Recovery.
Please Note do not submit any file without first contacting abc Data Recovery Ltd by email and filling out the forms necessary to track and ensure your data is sent to the appropriate technician Repair | Fix & Recover Data from Hard Disk Drives
Interface | Manufacturer :- SATA | SCSI | IDE | Freecom | Fujitsu | Hitachi | IBM IOMEGA | Lacie | Maxtor | Samsung | Seagate | Toshiba | WD | Western Digital Hard Disc | Disk | Drives.
External IDE | Internal | IDE | USB | Firewire | Hard Disc | Disk Drives.
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Recover Flash USB memory sticks & Camera Photo Flash Memory Cards :-
USB & USB 2.0 Pen Drive | USB Memory Stick | Compact Flash Card | Smart Media | SONY Memory Stick | IBM Micro Drive | Secure Digital SD Card | Multimedia Memory Card (MMC) | xD Memory Card | Magic Gate | Sandisk mini Cruzer | Lexar JumpDrive Flash Memory | Dell USB Memory Key | Belkin USB2 Flash Drive or any other data carrier for digital cameras | digital photographs | digital photo. Repair Broken USB Connector.
Computer backup Tape to CD conversion is catered for abc Data Recovery Ltd , Fill out the Contact Form giving all relevant details and how you would like your data returned to you.
Types /services include:- | extract files| transfer | data conversion | SLR | DLT | QIC | Travan | DAT | HP | Surestor | Colorado | Iomega | Travan | tape.
The following software are can cause additional damage to drives experiencing / imminenet mechanical or electronic failure:-Image clone | partition magic | Norton ghost | rapid data | easyrecovery | easy recovery ontrack | error fix | data core | paretologic file | it is recommended that you call for advice before attempting a software recovery on a suspect hard drive or server.
If you have any suspicion that your drive is experiencing problems you would be unwise to spend on such software when abc Data Recovery provide a free no-obligation quotation and assessment with a no data no fee policy.
| we comply with the IPDRA articles of association and call on its founders to enforce the long over due update by all members of their clean room certifications to comply with the ISO certification standard ISO BSEN 14644 |
*Our service goals are committed to keep us efficient and costs down. We will always reccommend the best solution for your particular problem there is a no data no charge policy for our time, but if we incur costs on your behalf they may become chargeable(for example sourcing specific parts or cleaning drives opened by data recovery labs that do not have a certified clean room ).
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