// swindon & wiltshire · data recovery specialists

Data Recovery Swindon

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 ticks, stalls at power-on or has stopped announcing itself to…

SSD

A failing SSD gives no soundtrack — it simply isn't there next boot. We bring back…

NVMe

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

Memory Card

One minute the card holds a christening, a wedding or a whole Cotswold shoot; the…

USB Stick / Flash Drive

The thesis, the payroll, ten years of family pictures — carried on a stick that just…

Laptop

Laptops die at the worst moments — dark at the power button, looping on the maker's…

Desktop Computer

The tower that's archived every family photo since the London Olympics, the…

Apple iMac

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

Apple MacBook

MacBook Air and MacBook Pro machines bow out quietly: refusing the charger, sleeping…

External Drive

Sod's law of storage: the disk carrying the only copy is always the one that slips…

NAS External Drive

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

CCTV / DVR

The camera saw everything — then the recorder died, the loop rolled over the crucial…

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 falls 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 ever wrote down, standing between a business…

Forensic Recovery

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

// 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 Oxford 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

Oxford Data Recovery

John Eccles House, Oxford Science Park
Robert Robinson Avenue, Littlemore
Oxford, OX4 4GP

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

Mark the package for the attention of Oxford 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 · Chippenham
★★★★★

"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 · Marlborough
★★★★★

"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 · Cirencester
// frequently asked questions

Common questions

The first stage costs nothing: a free diagnostic that examines the device, sets out exactly what can be brought back, and puts one fixed quote in writing before any work is authorised. 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.
Swindon runs as a post-in and courier operation — no shopfront, which keeps overheads out of your quote. Send the device tracked, book a courier pickup online, or bring it to the receiving lab reception yourself, Mon–Fri 9:00am–5:30pm.
Wherever you are in Swindon, Chippenham, Marlborough, Cirencester, Devizes or anywhere across Wiltshire, skip the hunt for a local repair counter — tracked post or a courier pickup puts your device at our Oxford location next day, and the free diagnostic is completed within 2 working days. For most faults that's quicker and kinder to a failing drive than carrying it round town in search of data recovery near you.
Bubble-wrap the device, pop a note inside with your name and phone number, and use Royal Mail Special Delivery or an insured courier addressed to our receiving lab: Oxford Data Recovery, John Eccles House, Oxford Science Park, Robert Robinson Avenue, Littlemore, Oxford, OX4 4GP — marked for the attention of Oxford Data Recovery. We call you the moment it arrives.
Count on 2 working days from arrival for the free diagnostic. After your approval, the typical job is finished inside the week; multi-drive RAID and physically damaged media run longer, and business-down cases can be pushed to the front.
Very often. Second opinions are routine here — describe exactly what the first attempt involved and the recovery plan is shaped around protecting whatever that attempt left behind. The diagnostic remains free.
Entirely. Each device is signed into a secured lab, handled under GDPR by our engineers alone, your recovered files travel back on an encrypted drive, and the lab's copies are securely erased the moment you confirm safe receipt.
// areas we serve

Local to Wiltshire & beyond

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

Lost data? Let’s get it back.

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