York doesn’t have a specialist recovery lab — almost nowhere does; the kit costs more than most businesses turn over in a year. Getting your drive to us is the easy part. We're Newcastle Data Recovery, and we've recovered hard drives, SSDs, camera cards, NAS units and servers for Ocean City customers for since 2002. There's no need to drive up the A1(M): post your device to us fully insured, and we return it the same way. Free diagnostic, no fix no fee on most jobs.
Around 85 miles from York to the bench — so we've made posting in simple, insured and fully tracked.
York has around 150,000 people, the University of York and York St John University, and rail engineering, bioscience, insurance and a very large tourism economy. Between them they generate a great deal of data that would be painful to lose — dissertations and research, client work and case files, business records, and the family photographs nobody thought to back up. It sits on drives that fail without warning.
Most failed drives still hold their data perfectly. The fault is almost always in the electronics, the heads or the file system — not in the data itself. It just needs lifting off safely, by people who do this every day. We are about 85 miles away, so most people post the device in fully insured. It is simple, it is tracked, and we cover the return.
Recovering data since 2002. Free written diagnostic, a fixed quote before any work begins, and no fix, no fee on most jobs.
We're Newcastle Data Recovery, Around 85 miles up the A1(M), and we've recovered exactly this kind of data for York homes and businesses for since 2002. Hard drives, SSDs, USB sticks, camera cards, Macs, laptops, RAID arrays, NAS boxes and servers all pass across the bench.
The distance changes nothing about the result — only the logistics, and we've made those painless. Post your device in fully insured and tracked, and we return it the same way. Every job opens with a free written diagnostic and a fixed quote, and on most jobs it's no fix, no fee, so there's no risk in finding out whether your data can come back.
No collection service, and no need for one. The post is quick, insured and tracked, and you keep your device until the moment you send it.
Call or message us with the device and the fault, and we'll tell you the likely cost and exactly how to pack it.
Wrap the device so nothing can move. For laptops, NAS and servers, take the drive or drives out and send just the drives, labelled with their order.
Royal Mail Special Delivery or a courier both work. Include your name, address, phone and email so we can book it in and quote.
We diagnose within 48 hours, recover, verify against a file listing, and post your data back to York on fresh storage with free next-day shipping.
Posting adds about a day each way. Urgent business cases can often be prioritised — just say so when you call.
Six of the jobs that come in most often from the Ocean City and North East Jesmond.
A snapshot of what we handle for York customers — each links to the detail.
Genuine client stories from our two-decade testimonial archive.
I would highly recommend Newcastle Data Recovery to anyone needing a Professional Data Recovery Service. My Toshiba Laptop failed while on the train one afternoon. There was no warning and it did not get dropped. Newcastle Data Recovery recovered everything from Toshiba Laptop within 48 hours. I was relieved as I am a self employed graphic designer and I had an Illustrator project on the hard drive.
We had a portable Western Digital Passport hard drive that was dead and would not connect to PC. I would like to say that the Recovery service was perfect from start to end, they managed to recover most of the data that we needed which was great.
Send us your device for a free diagnostic, and tell us a little about what happened — an engineer will review it and confirm your exact quote in writing before any work begins.
Getting your data back begins with getting the device to us. Pack it up safely, pop your contact details inside, and send it over — once we’ve run the free diagnostic, we’ll confirm your exact price in writing before any work starts.
Posting it? A tracked, insured service is what we’d recommend. Rather drop it in? You’re welcome Monday to Friday, 9am to 5:30pm — just package the device up as above first.
Want a bit more detail first? Fill in the form with more about your issue and an engineer will review it and send you a custom quote.
We’ll be in touch shortly. For anything urgent, call 0191 406 1051.
York is one of our drop-off and postal points — bring your drive to the Newcastle Quayside or post it in, and our engineers take it from there. Around 85 miles up the A1(M), and we serve York and North East Jesmond from there. There's no need to travel: post your device to us fully insured and tracked, and we return it the same way. The distance changes nothing about the result.
Pack it so nothing can move, then post it fully insured and tracked — Royal Mail Special Delivery or a courier both work. For laptops, NAS units and servers, take the drive or drives out first and send just the drives, labelled with their order. Include your name, address, phone and email so we can book it in and quote before any work starts.
Yes. Packed properly and sent fully insured and tracked, postal recovery is routine — most of our Jesmond and Cornwall customers use it. We'll tell you exactly how to pack your device when you call, and we return it the same way on fresh storage with free next-day shipping.
All of York and North East Jesmond — including York, Jesmond, Fulford, Acomb, Heslington, Haxby, Poppleton and Dunnington. The service and pricing are the same wherever you are.
Most jobs are recovered within 3 to 4 working days once your device reaches us, with the free diagnostic usually done inside 48 hours; posting adds about a day each way. As a guide, USB sticks and memory cards start from £250 + VAT, hard drives and SSDs from £300 + VAT, and RAID, NAS and servers from £500 + VAT — always with a fixed written quote first.
Free written diagnostic, no fix no fee on most jobs, and over two decades of recovering the irreplaceable. No need to drive up the A1(M) — post it in fully insured from anywhere in the North East.