Lazarus Data Recovery

13/10/2026

This golden oldie had been working for 22 years when a power surge blew multiple components on the main board. A donor board and component swap was performed, she powered back up with a little bit of a moan and groan, so needed slow clone work, but lasted long enough to extract all the customers data.
They don’t make drives like this any more and you certainly won’t see an SSD get anywhere close to that life time.

09/10/2026

This the 3rd Crucial x10 2TB that we’ve had in the last week. The first two are being worked on by the R&D engineers, but this one was bad sectors so a standard recovery. Luckily the customer bought it straight here as soon as it failed which I believe has made all the difference and allowed us to get all the data back (600Gb) at the lowest priced recover tier; £140 recovery + £90 new 1TB ext for the data.

17/08/2026

WD Green 2TB, board failure from power surge.

A donor board was used and components changed from the original board

Full recovery for the customer.

14/08/2026

20% discount on data recovery from drives and devices damaged by wildfires. A small gesture I know, amidst the devastation.

29/07/2026

29/07/2026

“Drive not seen” A nice standard recovery at £140. Drive had bad sectors so our rigs tricked it into giving up the data. Jam packed at 442GB of data, mostly photos and videos.

23/07/2026

Left over chassis from a Seagate 500GB ST31000528AS. The motor had failed and we were unable to free it, so we’ve gone old school and changed the chassis with a donor drive. It is now slowly cloning with a few errors but fingers crossed we can limp it home for a decent recovery.

22/07/2026

This Western Digital 1TB HDD had suffered “stiction”.
The heads fly at 5 nanometres above the platter/disc surface that is spinning at 5400rpm, the drive had been dropped a short distance not giving enough time for the sensors to realise and park the heads safely into the parking ramp. Instead the heads have hit the platter surface a d stuck into the data bearing layer.
In this case we managed to free the heads with specialist tooling and clone surface 0, 2 & 3. But head 1 was too damaged to read and so we had to used a set of donor heads to rebuild the drive. This was done in the clean lab and we managed to clone surface 1 completing the process and recovering all the customers missing family and business data.

19/07/2026

Lazarus data recovery rescuing precious data from HDD Hard disk drives, SSD solid state drives, phones, laptops, tablets, and USB sticks. WD Western Digital, Seagate, Hitachi, Toshiba, iPhone, iMac, MacBook, Hp, Dell, Lenovo, Asus, Samsung and more. www.lazarusdatarecovery.com 0800 888 6113

19/07/2026

This 300GB Maxtor HDD was 20 years old when it expired in a plume of smoke.
A PCB repair sorted the issue and it came back to life, a little slower than before but we managed a clone and then recovery all the data.