Specialist Data Recovery · Australia-wide
Hard drives. SSDs. Phones. RAID arrays. Storage devices other shops have given up on. We recover what matters, and we tell you up front whether the data can be reached.
Operated by iFix Electronics. 16 years of bench experience. NSW Health approved vendor.
It's the wedding photos that exist nowhere else. The video of your dad before he got sick. Five years of business records on the drive that started clicking yesterday. The thesis due Monday. The phone that took one trip too many through the washing machine.
By the time you start searching for data recovery, you already know what's on the line. We've been on the other side of that phone call for 16 years, and we know that you're not here for a sales pitch. You're here to find out if the data is recoverable, what it will cost, and how fast you can get it back.
That's what the free assessment is for. We open it. We diagnose it. We tell you the truth.
If it stores data, we have probably seen it fail. From single-drive logical recoveries to multi-disk RAID rebuilds, with Class 100 cleanroom work available through specialist partners when platter-level recovery is required.
Most recoveries fall into one of these categories. The right approach depends on what failed and how soon you stopped using the device.
Phones dropped in the surf, laptops that copped a coffee, drives caught in a flooded garage. Corrosion starts the second water touches the circuitry. Do not power it on. Bring it in.
Recycle bin emptied, drive formatted, phone factory-reset without a backup. The data is often still physically present on the medium. The sooner you stop writing to it, the better.
The head has crashed onto the platter. Every power cycle scratches more data into nothing. Mechanical recovery means head replacement and platter-level work in a controlled environment.
Controller failures, NAND degradation, and firmware corruption. We bypass dead controllers and read directly from the memory chips, then reconstruct the file system in software.
Cracked screen on a phone that won't sync to iCloud. Boot loop on an Android that holds two years of photos. We extract data from the storage chip directly when the rest of the phone is gone.
Multiple drives down, parity rebuild gone wrong, controller dead. RAID recovery requires imaging every member drive first and reconstructing the array offline. We do not write to your originals.
The tier is determined by what's wrong with the device, not by what you'd prefer. We confirm the tier and the fixed price after assessment, never before. You only ever agree to a known number before we start work.
Software-level recovery from drives that are still healthy hardware. No physical damage, no cleanroom work required.
Physical failures that require bench work. Component-level repair, controller bypass, firmware fixes, NAND chip-off recovery.
Severe physical damage requiring Class 100 cleanroom intervention, platter transplants, RAID rebuilds, or encrypted volume recovery.
The same workflow on every job. No surprises, no scope creep, no unexpected invoices.
You send the device to us by Express Post or courier. We open it, diagnose the failure mode, and tell you honestly whether the data is reachable, how long it will take, and the fixed price to recover it. The assessment costs nothing.
Nothing happens to your device until you say so. The quote is the quote. No upselling, no surprise fees mid-job, no "we found something else" calls.
Before any recovery attempt, we make a bit-for-bit image of the drive. All recovery work happens against the image, never the original. Your media is preserved exactly as it arrived.
Logical work happens at the bench. Mechanical work happens in a controlled environment. Severe physical damage goes into a Class 100 cleanroom for platter-level recovery.
Your recovered data is returned to you on a new drive of your choice. Your original device is returned intact. Temporary copies on our systems are securely wiped after delivery.
Data recovery customers are right to be cautious. Anyone can put up a website. Here is what stands behind ours.
Advanced Data Recovery is the specialist recovery arm of iFix Electronics, an established Central Coast NSW electronics workshop operating since 2010. Same bench, same operator, same standard of work, presented as a dedicated specialist service.
You don't need to be on the Central Coast. We accept devices from every state and territory. Pack it carefully, ship it tracked and insured, and we will handle the rest.
Most mail-in customers are back in possession of their data inside three weeks. Logical recoveries are faster, cleanroom work takes longer. We give a realistic timeframe after the assessment, never before.
You receive the shipping address immediately after starting an assessment, along with packing instructions and your unique job reference. Mail-in only, no walk-in service.
In-depth guides for the most common data loss scenarios. Each one explains what's going on inside the device, what to do in the first hour, and what recovery actually involves.
A clicking drive means the heads have crashed onto the platters. Every power cycle makes it worse. What the click means and why recovery is Critical-tier work.
The phone may be finished but the storage chip usually isn't. Why the rice trick doesn't work, when chip-off is the answer, what to do in the first hour.
Cable, port, driver, or dead drive. Walk through the self-checks in the right order, learn when to stop trying yourself, and what specialist recovery does.
Format doesn't actually delete your data. It removes the file system map. As long as you stop writing to the drive immediately, most files are recoverable.
SSDs fail differently from hard drives. No clicking, no slow death. DIY tools rarely work. Why SSD recovery is its own specialty.
Browse the full library. More guides are added as we cover the recovery scenarios we see most often in the workshop.
Most data is still recoverable the day it fails. Most data is still recoverable a week later. Some data stops being recoverable after a few power-on attempts. If the data matters, start the assessment today.