Hard drives, laptops and desktops
Spinning hard drives still hold most of the world's data, and they fail in predictable ways: worn read/write heads, seized motors, damaged platters and failed circuit boards. A drive that clicks, beeps or won't spin needs a cleanroom, not software.
We recover drives from Windows PCs, Macs, workstations and external enclosures of every brand and capacity, including helium-sealed drives. Physical work happens in our certified ISO Class 5 cleanroom, and every drive is imaged so recovery runs from a copy, never your original.
- Clicking, grinding, beeping or not spinning
- Not recognized, or asking to be formatted
- Dropped external drives
- Computers that won't boot or show a blue screen
Hard drive recovery on drivesaversdatarecovery.com
SSDs, soldered storage and encrypted drives
Solid-state storage has no moving parts, so failures are electronic: a controller stops responding, firmware locks up, or worn flash cells give out. Many SSDs and nearly all newer Macs also encrypt data by default, tying it to the original hardware.
Our in-house R&D team builds tools that talk to failed controllers, and our engineers are certified to recover both file-level and hardware-encrypted data. For Apple silicon and T2 Macs, storage is built into the logic board, so we recover from the whole machine.
- SATA, M.2 and NVMe SSDs
- MacBook and iMac storage soldered to the logic board
- BitLocker, FileVault and self-encrypting drives
- SSDs that vanished after an update or crash
SSD recovery on drivesaversdatarecovery.com
iPhone, iPad and Android
Phones hold the photos and messages people care about most, and they meet water, pavement and car doors more than any other device. When a phone won't turn on and there's no backup, board-level work can often bring it back long enough to extract the data.
DriveSavers performed one of the first data recoveries from an iPhone after it came to market. We recover iPhones, iPads and Android phones from Samsung, Google and others. Because modern phones are encrypted, we'll need your passcode.
- Water damage, even on water-resistant phones
- Dead phones and boot loops
- Crushed, bent and shattered devices
- SIM and SD cards from Android phones
iPhone recovery on drivesaversdatarecovery.com
RAID, NAS, servers and virtual machines
Multi-drive systems protect against one failure, not two, and the most common way business data becomes unrecoverable is a rebuild started on an array that was already failing. If your RAID or NAS is degraded, power it down before doing anything else.
We image each member drive, recover failed ones in the cleanroom, and reconstruct arrays and virtual disks from the images. That covers RAID 0, 1, 5, 6 and 10, NAS units from Synology, QNAP and others, SAN storage, virtual machines, databases and mail servers. Remote recovery may be possible for logical failures on systems that can't be shipped.
- Multiple failed drives or a failed rebuild
- Crashed NAS volumes
- Corrupted virtual disks and datastores
- Databases, ERP and accounting systems
RAID recovery on drivesaversdatarecovery.com
Memory cards, flash drives and tape
Camera cards and USB drives are small, cheap and easy to break, but the shoots and files on them often can't be replaced. Many modern cards and thumb drives are monolithic, meaning the memory and controller are a single chip, and recovery means reading that chip directly.
Backup tape is the opposite problem: durable media, but the drives and software that wrote it are often long gone. We read tape data directly and extract files without the original backup software, for modern and legacy formats including LTO.
- SD, microSD, CFexpress and CompactFlash cards
- Snapped, bent or unrecognized USB drives
- Formatted cards and corrupted video files
- LTO and legacy backup tape
Removable media recovery on drivesaversdatarecovery.com
