When a drive fails in Farnham, you don’t have to ship it off to London or hand it to some faceless national chain. Guildford Data Recovery sits just 11 miles up the A31, and we’ve been lifting data off servers, NAS boxes, camera cards, SSDs and hard drives on our own benches since 2002. Pop in on your way past, or send it by post — either way the diagnostic is free, and most jobs are no fix, no fee.
Roughly 25 minutes and 11 miles separate Farnham from our bench — drop it in yourself, or put it in the post.
Farnham is a handsome Georgian town of around 40,000 people in the far west of Surrey, with the University for the Creative Arts, a busy independent business scene and a large commuter population. Between them they generate a great deal of data that would be painful to lose — portfolios, accounts, client files and years of work.
A drive that has failed usually still holds every byte intact — the trouble almost always lies with the heads, the controller board or the file system rather than the data itself, which just has to be read off with care by people who do it day in, day out. Guildford Business Park is only 11 miles off, so calling in is straightforward — though the post works just as well, and the return trip is on us.
Bringing data back since 2002 — a written diagnostic at no charge, a set price agreed before we start, and no fee on most jobs unless we succeed.
Most of the time, no. A drive that looks “dead” has usually kept its data whole — the failure sits in the heads, the board or the file system — and that data just needs reading off cleanly, right on the first pass, by someone who handles these day in, day out.
Our lab is in Guildford, about 11 miles from you, and we’ve been doing precisely this for people in Farnham since 2002. Being close by gives you a choice: swing past the Guildford unit if it suits your route, or send it fully insured through the post. Every job opens with a free diagnostic and a set price, and for most there’s no fee unless the recovery works.
The postcodes we see most from here — and the surrounding villages and estates we cover just the same.
Alongside Farnham itself (GU9–GU10), drives reach us from right across the surrounding area — Wrecclesham, Rowledge, Frensham, Tilford and Badshot Lea. Whether you’re in the centre of Farnham or out in one of the villages, the drive can come to our Guildford unit or travel by tracked post — the free diagnostic and no-fix-no-fee terms are exactly the same either way.
A Georgian market town with a creative streak — and a lot of irreplaceable work on external drives.
Farnham, GU9 and GU10, has a character all its own: the University for the Creative Arts, a strong design and photography community, and the antiques and independent trade through the town. That shows in what we recover — external drives and photo libraries holding a professional’s entire back catalogue, student laptops with a dissertation or portfolio stranded on them, and the occasional SSD that has died the week before a deadline.
Creative work is the definition of irreplaceable, which is why the read-only approach matters — we image the drive first and never work on your original. Farnham is about ten miles west along the A31, so drop-off or tracked post both work; the diagnostic is free, the quote is fixed before anything starts, and most jobs are no fix, no fee. If a drive is clicking or won’t power up, stop using it and get it to us — every power-on risks the data.
Farnham is near enough that plenty of people just carry the drive in — but if the trip doesn’t suit, the post is every bit as simple.
Ring or message with the device and the fault, and we’ll put a likely figure to it straight away.
Bring the device — or, for laptops, NAS and servers, just the drive — to the Guildford unit, weekdays 9am–5:30pm, or send it fully insured.
We look it over, generally inside 48 hours, and send a fixed quote in writing before a thing is done.
We run the recovery, check it against a file listing, and you either pick it up from us or we ship it back on fresh media.
Bring it in and you skip the postal leg altogether. Pressing cases can usually jump the queue — just say so when you ring.
A quick look at what we take on for Farnham — follow any one through for the detail.
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.
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Our lab is in Guildford — about 11 miles and 25 minutes from Farnham on the A31 — and we’ve served Farnham from there since 2002. Call in weekdays, 9am to 5:30pm, or send your device to us fully insured.
Take your pick. Farnham is close enough that many people leave the drive with us as they pass through Guildford — for laptops, NAS and servers, bring the drive alone, labelled. Prefer not to travel? Send it insured and tracked. Both ways begin with a free diagnostic and a fixed quote.
Anything that stores data — databases and servers, NAS units and RAID arrays, external drives, laptops and Macs, camera cards and USB sticks, SSDs and hard drives. Formatted card or dropped drive, failed array or ransomware, all of it is worth a free look.
The whole of Farnham and everything around it — Rowledge, Wrecclesham, Hale, Heath End, Badshot Lea, Upper Hale, The Bourne and Runfold included. Wherever you are, the service and the pricing don’t change.
Most recoveries land inside three to four working days, and the free diagnostic is usually done within 48 hours. As a rough guide, a memory card or USB stick starts at £250 + VAT, any single hard drive or SSD at £300 + VAT, and RAID, NAS or a server from £500 + VAT — always quoted in writing first, with no fee on most jobs unless we get the data back.
A written diagnostic for nothing, no fee on most jobs unless we recover it, and more than twenty years of doing this just 11 miles up the road. Call into Guildford, or send it in fully insured.