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4.7 Rating 575 Reviews
95 %
of reviewers recommend R3 Data Recovery
4.7
Based on 575 reviews
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R3 Data Recovery is one of the best teams of data recovery engineers ever assembled in the UK. Security House is one of the few full data and disaster recovery labs in the UK accessible to all who need a high success rate reliable data recovery service from industry leading DR engineers at an affordable cost.

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5
Alex Jitaru
Very fast recovery. Burned my hard disk with 1 TB of precious information. Everything recovered. Good team.
R3 Data Recovery 5 star review on 30th October 2016
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(HULL) -
Hi Alex Many thanks for taking the time to leave a review. R3 Is constantly researching and developing new solutions needed to enable cost effective data recovery for ever increasing capacities. The Security House Lab in Sheffield is used a national centre for anyone needing cost effective data recovery, or secure, trusted expertise with the highest success rates of any data recovery lab. Many thanks from Andy and the team at R3 Data Recovery
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Verified Buyer
Dear Andy I found you very decent to deal with but I have given you a poor rating because you were unable to recover any of my data.
R3 Data Recovery 1 star review on 30th October 2016
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(London) -
Many thanks for the Review Frances, and although negative from your point of view and understandable I would like to respond to help others reading this. Your case involved the recovery of files overwritten by new data and an upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10. The recovered file quality report showed that 72% of the previous data had been corrupted and you felt the 28% of good files in the file list were of no use or not worth the cost of the recovery. We do try to help in every case and our charges were negligible compared to a competitor in the same situation who would have charged you £1200 for the same work and the exact same results. Unfortunately this is not an engineering level situation, it is matter of fact logical problem, data can be corrupted by overwriting, but the files may still have useful content. Deleting data or upgrading an operating system and losing access to files means the data is still there just not accessible, and the space is now available to be written to, never continue using the system and do not add more files until the previous data has been recovered to a separate storage device. Andy and the team at R3 Data Recovery
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Cornerstone
My Mac book wouldn't boot and had 6 years of work on, I was told by local firm it was a fault in the hard drive and it won't let you just copy the data. I found R3 on a Google search and I spoke with Andy who clearly knows his game, I sent my laptop off in hope and was praying for all my documents, 4 days later I get the most amazing news they managed a full recovery of all my files. Very professional and very good at what they do. Highly recommend them, thank you.
R3 Data Recovery 5 star review on 30th October 2016
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Many thanks for the review Jon. Your MacBook ST9160314ASG 160GB hard drive had served many years but suffered from a build up of bad sectors. Glad we could be of service. Despite the local Bristoldatarecovery Services not being able to help we can often achieve recoveries that other data recovery labs cannot. Andy and the team at R3 Data Recovery
5
Verified Buyer
Quality service from professional company. R3 Data Recovery succeeded where others had failed.
R3 Data Recovery 5 star review on 25th October 2016
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(Douglas IOM) -
Despite this Seagate drive having already been declared unrecoverable with a faulty PCB but we managed to find a donor from our stock, only to find that the drive heads had suffered as well. A donor drive and a rebuild by one our engineering team achieved the desired outcome - a successful recovery and a quality of 96.80% of the 363.8GB of data. Many thanks for the work and the review.
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Richard Thomas
When my flash drive was broken I was afraid I'd lost all my data, even my local Computer Shop couldn't fix or recover the data. Until I learnt about R3 Data Recovery and when I received all the lost data back I felt relieved and much appreciation for the work you do.
R3 Data Recovery 5 star review on 19th October 2016
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(Erdington) -
Many thanks for taking the time to leave a review. The Team is designed to handle emergency cases regardless of complexity as quickly and safely as possible for all clients according to their requirements. Our decades of expertise and success rates are only matched by the very best data recovery labs. Our scale of operations has been developed to improve overall efficiency and reduce turnaround times on more cases per month than any other UK data recovery lab.
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NSG European Technical Centre
You recovered all the data off our daughters pen drive within one day of receiving it. You were our last hope and we were amazed at the speed of your work and delighted that you were able to recover the contents of the drive. You saved almost a years teaching work and we are very grateful.
R3 Data Recovery 5 star review on 18th October 2016
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(ORMSKIRK) -
Many thanks for the review. Recovering memory sticks for teachers and students is a routine service for us. We understand the pressures our clients are under and have invested in our lab and in the developing of a successful team approach which enables hundreds of varied cases to be managed every month. We take pride and care in delivering the best service possible as one of the top 3 UK data recovery labs.
5
John Snelling
They were very efficient and were able to retrieve all my photos and documents that I had thought lost forever.
R3 Data Recovery 5 star review on 11th October 2016
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(Norwich) -
5
David Quinn
Good advice and well explained procedures regarding percentage of success, delivery protocols and cost.
R3 Data Recovery 5 star review on 2nd October 2016
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(Birmingham) -
With Water damage to air book and Apple Store Genius Bar unable to assist we were pleased to solve the corrosion and contamination issues that had resulted in a short circuit. and get a full recovery. Although SSD have some advantages, in the event of water damage and corrosion they can be much more problematic but once the circuitry repairs had been made a surprisingly full SSD drive of data was rescued in perfect condition.
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Martyn Beverley
Very fast turnround and explained every step of the process. Wouldn't hesitate to recommend their services.
R3 Data Recovery 5 star review on 1st October 2016
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(Welwyn Garden City) -
Many thanks for the Review Martyn Fortunately we were able to get the data from the drive despite it having a scratch affecting over several million bad sectors, whilst there were a significant number of unread: 205209 and unprocessed: 2570537 the recovered data was in good condition. It may be possible to improve the results with another set of heads but the improvement would require considerably more time and cost whereas we were able to deliver the majority at the price quoted at the outset despite it being one of the more severe platter damages which many other data recovery services would not be able to process cost effectively. R3 Data Recovery is building on its industry leading engineers and the most investment of any data recovery lab or data clinic in the UK. With over 20 staff and a high security lab able to process recoveries on emergencies 24/7/365 as well as delivering low cost through the scale and efficiencies achieved by only the very best teams of data recovery specialists. Andy and the Team at R3 Data Recovery This case processed from arrival by Blair booking in. Lead Engineer Paul with Assistant Technicians Joe and Danny Enquiry handled by Stewart Customer Services Lauren, Lyndsey and Alex
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Pitchford Ass. Ltd
The initial zip file with the recovered data did not seem to have data I would of really liked, however there was data that was essential to my business. When I received the Matrox drive with the recovered data I was absolutely delighted to find the vast majority of my files in tack. Yes I'm happy with the price and the actual turn around time was just right for me.
R3 Data Recovery 5 star review on 1st October 2016
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(Telford) -
Many thanks for the review of the team John In this particular case PCWorld had already said the drive was mechanically failed and had offered to send it away. Gareth was able to give an accurate price for the recovery based on your description and on assessment in the lab it was confirmed the drive had suffered a head crash and had a severe scratch in the Firmware Zone, Lead engineer Lucio was able to stabilise the drive and effect a recover contents of almost 1.5 Billion sectors with only 500 being unreadable. The data was fully recovered and processed within the service level and pricing given at the outset. All the team involved at R3 take pride in giving the best quality Data Recovery Hospital service, be it an Accident & Emergency or a standard recuperation of data. The R3 Team have developed a Real Data Recovery Hospital serving every Town and City in the UK and is offered through select Partners in Europe
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Alastair Crawford
They arranged for a courier to pick it up and had it in their lab with all the data recovered by the next day. Very helpful team, explained the steps they would take and would respond to messages late at night. Thank you so much!
R3 Data Recovery 5 star review on 1st October 2016
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5
Candace Albornoz
They were very fast and helpful- and open late hours. It is an expensive service but it's worth the recovery. They also take insurance which helps with the cost. They had to do something crazy because the HD dropped and pieces went out of place, but they have the experts to do all the work.
R3 Data Recovery 5 star review on 1st October 2016
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(Edinburgh) -
Glad we could be of service Candace - your Western Digital Portable USB 3.0 WD10JMVW-11AJGS1 was fully recovered using in stock donor parts for the rebuild within 5 Working days. R3 Continues to develop and improve on its remit to provide the highest possible success rates at the best price in the UK. Those seeking data recovery in Edinburgh can also benefit from the UKs best data recovery company Andy and the team at R3
5
Joseph David Potter
Like many people I feel like I live my life on my computer. I'm a creator with hundreds of files of writing on my drive, as well as the large amounts of media that we all accrue. When your drive fails at the eleventh hour in transferring it from an old and failing computer to a new one, it can seem like all is lost. The feeling of loosing thousands of hours of writing and hundreds of photographs and life memories is very much like a sudden car crash, it's not too much to say it feels a little like a bereavement. But R3 pulled out a miracle save of essentially 100% of my data (certainly everything I cared about), with an exceptionally fast turn around, and most importantly, superb customer service. Every other company I spoke to was curt, even harsh, and uniformly tried to up-sell me inappropriate services at a time of great stress. All R3 staff were courteous, professional and handled all my concerns with cool elegance. A truly painless experience. I just cannot them recommend enough.
R3 Data Recovery 5 star review on 1st October 2016
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(Bristol) -
Many thanks for the review Joe - Your Western Digital WD7500AADS-00M2B0 had given ggod service but developed bad sectors which prevented the data being transferred. R3 Engineers are Western Digital Data Recovery Specialists - our Rapid Data Recovery service is in real terms more cost effective and a higher quality of recovered data than others in the Fields of Data Recovery and that is a fact ! Andy and the team at R3
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David Hawke
Office based document recovery was good, but I was disappointed with how few media files were recovered
R3 Data Recovery 3 star review on 27th September 2016
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(Leamington Spa) -
Hi David, thank you for taking time to leave a review. I am sorry the results were not what we all would have liked. The issue was with how your RAID1(mirrored) Network Attached Storage had failed, the subsequent reset of the partitions and stripe size. Not only was the file system destroyed, but also large video files were corrupted and rendered beyond recovery. We were able to recover smaller documents and excel sheets using a RAW scan and most were unaffected. The underlying fault was firmware errors and smart errors, the drives logs showed there had been a number power cycles and errors developing possibly as a result of a power outage. Had the drives not been forced back online the partition and file system not reset and a rebuild / resynch of the data attempted the larger file types would have been recoverable. Andy and the team at R3 Data Recovery
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Verified Buyer
recovered data from physically destroyed hard drive , really good , experienced services. It was my choice after recommendation my friend. It is only one thing -is expensive- but usually is not cheap . In my opinion is better pay once little bit more, and get you data back with high chance of recovering than paying someone without good experience and finally send to R3 to do the job ,and finally pay twice ! Stop wasting time looking for review , just contact r3
R3 Data Recovery 4 star review on 27th September 2016 R3 Data Recovery 4 star review on 27th September 2016
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(Flint) -
Thank you for the review Rob - Your Hitachi HTS545050B9A300 500gb had failed and required a rebuild and recovery at our Security House lab in Sheffield . R3 Data Recovery operate from high security premises under NDA with many organisations. For GDPR data-breach management we offer a dedicated and secure emergency service. Much of work every month comes from recommendation, we strive every month to help as many clients referred to us and those who find us after falling foul of have a go heroes in the Fields of Data Recovery who are less Rapid. R3 Data Recovery Specialists have experience and expertise called on by Governement Departments, Data Centes, Hospital Trusts, Industry and the MOD as well as individuals students and small to medium businesses.
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Verified Buyer
Excellent service in every respect. I cannot speak highly enough of the team, everything they did to recover my data, and the speed and efficiency which with they sprang into operation and recovered 97% of the pictures on my memory card. Great telephone support and updates on progress by email as the job was under way. They are all stars!
R3 Data Recovery 5 star review on 26th September 2016
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(Brighton) -
Hi Nita Many thanks for the review, although one of the smaller recoveries at 1.2GB of data, it was bad sectors and corruption to the file system which had prevented access to the data. Glad we could be of service Andy and the team at R3 Data Recovery
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Verified Buyer
Had a bad experience with a separate company, R3 Data saved my music video! No messing around. Honest, affordable fast and reliable.
R3 Data Recovery 5 star review on 26th September 2016
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(TOTTENHAM) -
? Many thanks for the review, It was unfortunate for you that just because a large company gives a cheap price does not mean they intend to deliver on it. Your SanDisk Extreme Pro was successfully recovered by R3 at the price quoted at the outset. Even though our competitor quoted a cheap data recovery price of £97 or £99 in reality the actual price asked is 3 times what we quote at the outset, in this case we quoted £149+vat as of mid 2016. The R3 Team are building on their class leading success rates, hard work and willingness to help those affected by data loss across the UK and Europe. Andy Butler Operations manager at R3 DR - The Data Recovery Hospital
5
Rachael Wilson
My external hard drive failed and I stupidly had no back-up, all my clients work, created over the past 18 months was potentially lost forever! In blind panic I called R3. One of the team calmly talked me through what had probably happened to the disc and proceeded to send a courier to collect my disc and then go on to retrieve ALL my files and send a replacement hard drive by courier. All within 4 working days. These guys literally saved my skin!
R3 Data Recovery 5 star review on 26th September 2016
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(Banbury) -
Many thanks for the Review Rachael Our technical expertise and the capacity of the lab does mean we can often turnaround tasks faster than the quoted service level. The lab is geared for handling hundreds of cases every month and capable of handling influxes of work dues to fire, flood or earthquakes ! Most cases can be handled within 24 hours of arrival, even for jobs which would have once taken a few weeks 10 years ago, however other cases that do take longer would have in the past been declared unrecoverable because of the time it would take. We remain committed to the very highest of success rates which has enabled us to offer more consumers access to a world class business level service for low cost. Andy and the tea at R3 Data Recovery
5
Nick Cook
Very quick and friendly service and data fully recovered.
R3 Data Recovery 5 star review on 26th September 2016
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(Edinburgh) -
5
David Foden
A professional and prompt service which reunited us with thousands of holiday photos - made my wife very happy!
R3 Data Recovery 5 star review on 26th September 2016
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(London) -
Hi David Many thanks for the review. Your 500GB Seagate ST3500418AS had obviously worked well for several years but succumbed to a power surge. Luckily the computer repair technician realised not to attempt anything himself. All the best Andy and the Team at R3 Data Recovery
5
Alistair Hinton
Made contacted with me on a bank holiday and spent time prior to commission to explain the issues, options and process. Impeccable service following commissioning.
R3 Data Recovery 5 star review on 26th September 2016
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(Abergavenny) -
Hi Alistair Your Western Digital WD10JMVW-11AJGS1 1TB drive had suffered from bad sectors possibly as a result of a power fluctuation. It was fully recovered on the budget service. Many thanks for the review Andy and the Team at R3 Data Recovery
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Verified Buyer
The speed of service and the result was excellent from start to finish. I was reluctant to send my data to a company I choose on the web, my worries were unfounded and the results saved me hours trying to reproduce my lost data.
R3 Data Recovery 5 star review on 25th September 2016
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(Nottingham) -
Hi Paul Your unbranded 8GB stick had a number of faults common to failed flash memory which fail. In reality NAND chips should be regarded as temporary data transfer devices rather than places to backup data to. That said we were able to complete the recovery 100% and just 105.4MB of Microsoft Documents sent by secure download. The price quoted at the outset can seem expensive relative to the few pound or even freebie memory stick value, but the time and resources of our engineering capabilities and safe / secure service is cost effective. Again thanks for the review Andy and the Team at R3 Data Recovery
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Maradu Engineering LTD
Hi Andy, I would like to thank you for recovering my lost data! I have always appreciate your dedication and availability even on a Sunday afternoon! And even if I did not give you to much chance you have successfully recover all my data! To be honest, I hope to not be in business with you anymore but I know that when it will be necessary (and it will be!) you will be there to help me and my business! Thank you!
R3 Data Recovery 5 star review on 25th September 2016
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(Coventry) -
Many thanks for taking time to leave a review Radu. I am glad the team could help you in your hour of need and of course hopefully you will never need us again. A little like a dentist of hospital operation, data recovery is often unplanned and an unexpected cost in terms of money, time and inconvenience. We do out best to mitigate this. The Security House lab is a real data recovery Hospital. Its engineers are the best in Europe and our support staff and sales and customer services are being developed to help with our growing reach and success rates. Andy and the team at R3 Data Recovery
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Robert Day
Very good and easy company to deal with .managed to retrieve all my photos from my damaged external hard drive ,very pleased and well worth the cost Bob
R3 Data Recovery 5 star review on 25th September 2016
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(Bristol) -
Hi Robert thank you for the review, we don't see many of those Western Digital 640GB drives but when we do we have the highest success rates. Glad we could be of service Andy and the Team at R3 Data Recovery
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Verified Buyer
Collected the hard drive as agreed. Contacted me promptly as they needed a donor part which they did not have in stock at up front cost of £240 - then no contact until I contacted them for an update, very next day they call to say the drive in unrecoverable. Paid £240 and no data recovered.
R3 Data Recovery 1 star review on 25th September 2016
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(Borehamwood) -
Dear Andy We processed your case after explaining that it was a donor killer, I am sorry but your situation requires that multiple donors and rebuilds will be needed to stand a chance of recovering any data. We undertook the work the strip down of the donor and rebuilds of your drive on the understanding you paid for the parts. Unfortunately it was not successful. I am sorry you felt the need to leave a negative review, but you are welcome to visit the lab and inspect your drive in our cleanroom yourself. We can show you why your case will need extended rebuild attempts. We are here to help and we are one of the very best teams of engineers in the country. The process flow of the lab is geared to emergencies and is only held up looking for donors. We are investing in the development of one of the largest donor hard drive stocks held by any data recovery lab in the UK Andy and the Team at R3 Data Recovery andy@r3datarecovery.com
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Sam Grover
Whilst the data on my disk was not easily recoverable, R3 were clear about the potential further work that could be taken, and the costs. As the disk content was not critical I declined; they thus lost on the deal. I'd not hesitate to use the service in the future
R3 Data Recovery 5 star review on 25th September 2016
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(Leamington Spa) -
Hi Sam I am sorry we could not help in your case, there were two factors, failed heads and some platter damage and worse a relatively rare version of a Western Digital WD20EARX-00MMMB0 Although we have dozens of similar models in stock, the correct revision could only be found on eBay at the time it is was needed and the sellers had also realised it was a low production run version which will take time to come into the data recovery parts system. Obviously in the future get in touch if you decide the data is worth recovering. Andy and the team at R3 Data Recovery Ltd
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Martin Kenrick
I suppose there will always be some data that is not recoverable, however.......we had our money back as the data recovered was unusable and the files could not be opened, let alone used. So my experience is a distinctly poor one!
R3 Data Recovery 1 star review on 25th September 2016
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(Worcestershire) -
Many thanks for the review Martin It does help to identify situations where even the very best data recovery engineers and service can fall foul of a situation which is a truly terrible situation for you- Namely overwriting your business critical data and not backing up emails. I am sorry you did not recognise our attempts to assist and that our company did the work free of charge trying to help you. When speaking to the customer he was not fully sure whether or not he had written over the data on the internal hard drive. data seemed to be lost after upgrading to windows 10. we had told them that if they have accidently wrote over the old data then we may not be able to get it back so that they are aware but told them to send in for the free assessment anyway. A recovery was undertaken and it produced a quality of just 47.12% 12.7GB which was accepted. The client accepted the file list and paid the invoice and testing the data himself then complaining that the results were not good enough when we had already advised that it was a low quality result. Sadly we cannot help everyone and we are also distinctly saddened that even in our trying to help, only the negative aspect of the result is focused on. We remain positive and will continue to help everyone in their hour of need. Andy and the Team at R3 Data Recovery Ltd Delete
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Verified Buyer
Data was recovered with no issues, but communication was very bad and would think twice before returning.
R3 Data Recovery 3 star review on 25th September 2016
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(Saudi Arabia) -
Dear Badr Your original contact was in Early 2015 and at that time we gave an accurate cost of recovery which we stuck to almost a year later in 2016. Your QNAP RAID 5 failed with 3.7TB of data due to 2 failed Disks. We were successful in recovering over 99% of the 3.7TB in perfect condition at the price quoted from the outset. Any communications issues with International transport and customs is regrettable and an aspect of the company which we are working on continually to match our unrivalled cost effective data recovery success rates. Thank you for taking time to leave a genuine review. Andy and the Team at R3 Data Recovery
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Verified Buyer
Quick and professionally servic data was recovered and I am very happy.
R3 Data Recovery 5 star review on 25th September 2016
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Many thanks for the review, Your WD 2TB Green had suffered damage which included broken PCB and power connector fractures. Our Electronics specialists correctly matched and reprogrammed a donor PCB with information from your PCB to enable proper communication with the heads. A successful recovery was then transferred to a new drive. Many thanks for the review of R3 Data Recovery - The UKs main independent data recovery lab. Andy and the team at R3
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Gabriel Solmon
I run a small IT support company in London and I have had several clients who have needed professional data recovery. When I first approached R3 data recovery I had a portable hard drive that wouldn’t start up. I called up and spoke with Andy, who was extremely helpful. He went through all options and possible outcomes with me. He then arranged a courier to pick up the hard drive. A few days later I got an email with the file list everything that could be recovered and the recovery price, asking me if I would like to go ahead. I did, and everything came back by courier well packaged, in full working order, on a new hard drive as promised! I have since used R3 data recovery on many occasions, and have worked with many of their team – all who were very helpful and professional. They have always catered to my specific needs. So far I have sent in all sorts of hard drives, SSD Drives, USB Drives, Memory Cards, Overwritten CCTV footage, and have always gotten dedicated attention however big or small the job has been. I would fully recommend R3 data recovery. I have always had high quality results, dedicated support, fast turnover time, reasonable prices, and of course they always manage to save the day! A very happy customer!
R3 Data Recovery 5 star review on 25th September 2016
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(London) -
Many thanks for the review Gabriel, my team are doing a great job developing the capacity to help more IT Support and computer shops gain access to the highest success rates of any data recovery lab in the UK. Keep up the good work, we are here when you need us. Andy and the team at R3 Data Recovery
R3 Data Recovery is rated 4.7 based on 575 reviews