Based in Belfast city centre, we recover hard drives, SSDs, RAID arrays, NAS boxes and forensic evidence for homes and businesses right across Northern Ireland — from Titanic Quarter tech and post-production firms to clients throughout Antrim and Down. Everything in-house, free diagnostic, no-fix-no-fee, with a written quote before any work begins.
$ bdr diagnose /dev/sda → Device: Toshiba P300 (3 TB) → Status: SEIZED MOTOR — wont spin → Client: confidential · Belfast $ bdr engineer-working → Platter pack: transferred to donor → Spindle: freed in clean-air → Imaging: 2.71 TB / 2.73 TB (99.3%) $ bdr verify → ✓ family_photos — 96,540 files → ✓ home_movies — 612 clips → ✓ everything — recovered
A handful of recoveries from our Belfast workshop over the past few weeks — client names redacted, every result checked before it goes back.
Three drives failed at once and the ZFS pool refused to import. We imaged every surviving member, rebuilt the pool metadata offline, and handed back the complete project tree.
Liquid had killed the logic board. We read the soldered NAND on a fixture, rebuilt the APFS container, and returned the dissertation along with four years of photos.
The datastore mounted but every VM had vanished. We rebuilt the VMFS metadata, repaired the VMDK descriptors, and brought all seven machines back online.
Plenty of recovery outfits quietly pass your drive to a third-party facility — sometimes abroad. We don't. Here, every recovery is handled start to finish by our own engineers in Northern Ireland, from the moment your drive reaches us to the moment it's back in your hands.
Every job is done in-house by our own engineers — never farmed out to anyone else.
Your drive, and your data, stays in Northern Ireland at every stage — never shipped across the water, never sent overseas.
ICO-registered (No. ZC173784) and fully GDPR-compliant, with NDAs available on request.
Whatever failed — a seized desktop drive, a NAS that won't rebuild, a snapped USB stick, a ransomware-hit server — we have the clean-air bench, the donor parts and the patience to bring your files back.
We are not a call-centre that ships your drive somewhere else. Belfast-based engineers, twenty-five years on the bench, and the kit and patience to take on the jobs other firms decline.
On most jobs you pay nothing unless we recover — and you get a full file listing to check before you commit.
Your drive is opened and imaged here in Northern Ireland by our own team — never subcontracted, never sent across the water.
A no-obligation diagnostic and a fixed written quote up front, so there are no surprises once work starts.
Drop your device at our Belfast office Mon–Fri 9am–5:30pm, or send it in by insured, tracked post.
Decades of bench experience, working each job in turn — no queue-jumping, no cut corners.
Bring your device in to us in Belfast city centre, Mon-Fri 9am-5:30pm, or send it by post. Insured UK-wide postal recovery is available too.
A free written diagnostic, no fix–no fee on most jobs, and twenty-five years of recovery experience right here in Belfast. Start today.