The UK’s Data Recovery Experts

Had very good experience with Secure Data about retrieving my data back from dead portable hard drive. I dealt with Eric Dvorin. He was very professional all through out the process and was very prompt returning a call or email. He is technically sound to explain the process and solution to an end user. I would surely recommend Secure Data.

Comment updated – please see towards the bottomWhen my computer store determined that my SSD hard drive had been damaged, and they could not recover the data, they sent it to you at Secure Data. They warned me that the process of recovery could be expensive, like $500. Seemed like a lot, but I had a lot of information that I needed, so agreed on sending it off. I was shocked when your low bid for getting the data from my 500 GB SSD came in at $2,800, plus another $200 for the external drive and shipping. That bid warned me that it could take 2 ½ to 3 months to do the work. Shorter time frames were offered for an additional $1,000 to $1,350.After seriously considering not doing it, I authorized a standard recovery. You for some reason did not see that response, and sent me a follow-up a few days later. We spoke, and I reaffirmed the work request. At 1 pm the following day, I got an email that the data capture was done, and provided info on tracking the remote drive, which had already been shipped.It took another phone call to guide me through moving the data to my computer to begin to repopulate my new SSD. My moderately paced machine did a complete copy of the recovered data in well under an hour. I presume your more sophisticated equipment easily beat that.I was relieved to get my data back, but feel I was grossly overcharged for the service. The obviously short time it took to copy the SSD to the external drive should not have resulted in a $3,000 bill. The inflated recovery times in the Data Recovery Plan seem like unwarranted bids for extra fees.I would have had a lot of work to do to reassemble my data without your help. I’m sure you know this, and feel your charges are based more on what my replacement cost would be rather than a reasonable fee for a few hours of technical work.My summary of Secure Data is that the company is technically competent, but takes unfair advantage of people with real needs for help, not price gouging.January 15, 2026 update: Secure Data (SD) contacted me, and provided additional information about what was actually involved with the data recovery process. I now better understand (still not totally) that:• My local store likely gave me unrealistic expectations about the cost.• An SSD with physical and firmware damage takes a lot of gentle coaxing to release its data.• Data recovery is very expensive, so,• If you don’t already need SD’s services, any investment you can make in having a good backup system is really good insurance. But if you do,• Secure Data did provide me with a good recovery product.Hot tip: If you’re reconstructing your machine as I am, make sure your hard drive has lots of room. You’ll want to be able to download all the recovered data as is into your machine, then move that information to its final location. If you copy/paste, you’ll be filling essentially twice the hard drive space you originally used before you’re done.

Secure Data Recovery Services & Daniel helped me so much - I thought my drive was toast but they were able to recover the data in about a week and put it on my new hard drive. Life saver!!