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SSD data recovery · UK-wide, by post · every make, every shape

SSD data recovery, posted in from anywhere in the UK. Most dead SSDs still hold the data; the controller has simply stopped handing it over.

An SSD fails differently from a hard disk: no noise, no warning, just a drive that has gone from the BIOS, shows the wrong size, or calls itself something you have never heard of. Underneath, the flash is usually intact. What has failed is the controller, its firmware, or the map it keeps of where everything is. That is the work done here: NVMe, SATA, M.2, mSATA, portable and soldered, from every maker. Looking at it is free. A single SSD, internal or portable, is £300 + VAT, and a set of SSDs from a RAID or a NAS starts at £500 + VAT; enterprise storage starts at £1,250 + VAT. Whatever it is, you get one figure in writing before anything chargeable starts, and on most jobs no data means no bill. Your files come home on fresh media, and return postage is paid here.

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What kind of SSD is it?

Choose the closest match. You get a likely cause, the band it falls in, and the one thing not to do tonight.

Free, and nothing to payAnswered inside a working day
£300 + VATOne SSD, any shape
FreeThe first look
3–5 daysAt the bench, one drive
UK-wideBy tracked post
Controller, firmware and NAND workOne fixed figure in writingMost jobs: no data, no billFiles home on fresh mediaReturn postage paidICO-registered · ZC173784

Four SSD jobs closed, and what went home.

Jobs already closed →
UK · SDR-2026-0417JOB LOGGED ✓

A 1TB WD_BLACK SN770 that went missing after a Windows update

A Lenovo laptop stopped at a black screen after an update, and the BIOS no longer listed a drive. The stick came out and came here on its own. In the controller's diagnostic state it answered with its map intact but two firmware modules damaged; a temporary loader brought it up read-only and a full image took eleven hours. A decade of a photographer's edits opened first time.

99.6% of files recovered4 days here, and back by post
Illustrative example — replace with a genuine case
UK · SDR-2026-0409JOB LOGGED ✓

A 2TB SanDisk Extreme Pro V2, unreadable the morning after a wedding

A photographer offloaded three cards onto the drive, ejected it, and next morning the Mac said the disk was not readable. Nothing was written to it after that, which mattered. The board showed a solder fault at the bridge; the SSD behind it was separated and read on its own interface, the APFS volume put back together on the image, and every RAW file accounted for.

Every RAW file recovered4 days here, and back by post
Illustrative example — replace with a genuine case
UK · SDR-2026-0402JOB LOGGED ✓

A 480GB Kingston A400 that forgot its own name

A family PC stopped booting, and the BIOS listed the drive as SATAFIRM S11. Nothing had been run against it, which mattered. On the bench the controller took a loader into its RAM, the service area read back cleanly, and the translation table was rebuilt from it. Ten years of photographs and the household accounts came off in one pass.

100% of it recovered3 days here, and back by post
Illustrative example — replace with a genuine case
UK · SDR-2026-0401JOB LOGGED ✓

A Surface Laptop 4 with a dead board, BitLocker on, and the key in a Microsoft account nobody had checked

The laptop died; the 2230 NVMe drive inside was healthy. BitLocker had been on from the day the machine was set up, as it is on most Surfaces, and the owner did not know it. The recovery key was where Windows had put it, in the Microsoft account under Devices. The drive was imaged whole, the volume unlocked on the image, and everything came back.

100% of it recovered3 days here, and back by post
Illustrative example — replace with a genuine case

Begin with the hardware,
or with the symptom.

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Every kind of SSD

NVMe M.2 sticksThe drive that just stops: firmware or controller, with the flash sound behind it→SATA 2.5-inch drivesThe commonest home of SATAFIRM S11, 0GB and the strange names→M.2 SATA and mSATANot what they seem: SATA in a stick, with SATA's failures→Portable and external SSDsSamsung T7, SanDisk Extreme, Crucial X9: usually a drive behind a failed bridge→Soldered to a Mac or laptopT2, Apple silicon, Surface, thin laptops: where the board has to live too→SSD RAID and NASEvery member imaged, in order, before anything is rebuilt→U.2, SAS and enterpriseServer drives, recovered as the array they came from→

The drive inside a laptop or a Mac.

Laptop data recovery →

Laptops and Macs

Laptop data recoveryA dead laptop is rarely a dead drive: the drive comes out and is read here, encryption opened with your key→MacBook and Mac data recoveryWhich Macs have removable drives, and which have soldered, encrypted storage that depends on the board→

The two jobs that ask more of you

Encrypted drives, and drives that never leave the board.

Most SSD work ends the same way: the controller is coaxed into its diagnostic state, the map is rebuilt, the drive is imaged, and the files go home. Two kinds of job add a step. An encrypted drive, which is most business laptops and every modern Mac, can be imaged but only read with the key you hold. And a drive soldered to a T2 or Apple silicon Mac cannot be lifted off the board at all, because the flash alone is ciphertext; the board has to be brought back to life. We say at the free look which yours is, and we do not take jobs we cannot finish.

BitLocker · FileVault · Opal

Encrypted SSDs, and why the key matters most

BitLocker on Windows, FileVault on a Mac, and the self-encrypting drives that follow the Opal standard all mean the same thing on the bench: the drive is recovered as a drive, and the volume is unlocked afterwards, on the image, with the 48-digit recovery key or the password you supply. We never attempt to break encryption, and we do not accept a job where the key is not yours to use. Encryption adds a step, not usually a cost, provided the key is to hand.

  • The BitLocker key from the Microsoft account, under Devices, or from your employer
  • The FileVault password, or the recovery key
  • Samsung, Crucial and Kingston drives with hardware encryption managed by software
  • A failing drive that is also encrypted: two steps, in order
Through to encrypted drives →
Apple T2 · Apple silicon · Surface · thin laptops

SSDs soldered to the logic board

Since 2018 every Mac has had its storage soldered down and encrypted in hardware with keys inside the Secure Enclave. Recovery means reviving the original board to the point where it unlocks its own storage, which can be done where the fault is power delivery or a failed component, and cannot where the board has been replaced or the Mac erased. Many newer Surfaces and thin Windows laptops are simpler: a removable 2230 drive, or soldered flash that can be read directly. Ask us before anyone swaps the board.

  • Apple blades to 2017: ordinary work, the module comes out
  • T2 and Apple silicon: board repair, or nothing, said plainly
  • Surface Pro 7+ and Laptop 3 onwards: a removable 2230 drive
  • Liquid spills: bag it as it is, do not dry it, do not power it
Through to soldered SSDs →

What happens after it arrives.

All seven stages in order →

  1. Send the form

    Tell us the drive, what it is doing and what matters most. Back by email come the posting address, the nearest drop-off point, packing notes and a booking sheet to print. The address is not published; it comes by email in reply to the form, and the booking sheet inside the parcel is what matches it to your enquiry when it is opened.

  2. Post it, or hand it in

    Tracked and insured, in an anti-static bag inside a small padded box. Tracked post from anywhere in the UK, or handed in at the nearest of ten drop-off points; say where you are on the form and it comes by email with the posting details. Nobody collects, and we pay the postage home whichever way the job turns out.

  3. The free look

    The drive is read on our own equipment, never in a computer that might send it a TRIM command. An engineer identifies the controller, the firmware state and the health of the flash, and settles how much can honestly be read back. That stage carries no charge, and you may stop at it owing nothing.

  4. One price, written down

    Findings and price arrive together, and nothing chargeable begins until you have agreed to the figure.

  5. You get the files back

    What is recovered travels home on fresh media bought in for your job, after 3–5 days at the bench for most single drives. Your case stays open until you have opened the files yourself and confirmed they are right.

It has stopped, and it will not start safely on its own.

Each power-on gives a failing SSD another chance to run its own housekeeping, and on a drive with deleted files that housekeeping is erasing the blocks you want back. Cut the power, send the form, and back comes an honest account of how much still reads, with the price of getting it home. That account is free, and so is the parcel returning.

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