Our engineers have gained an enviable reputation within the industry for their ability to recover data and restore servers from apparently terminal failures, such as multiple disk crashes and RAID rebuild failure.
They recover data from any file system, and any operating system. From RAID 0 striped across two drives, to high-scale enterprise servers comprising hundreds of drives.
Getting Your Data Back
In the first instance, contact us. We have lots of information from delivery and turnaround to what happens if you’re outside of the UK on our website along with a list of FAQs that will help put your mind at ease.
Acknowledged as a solid, reputable and reliable company, Retrodata can be depended on for the swift recovery and restoration of your servers and systems, and for a rapid return to full production. No fuss, no bother. We recover data from NT Server, Server 2000, Server 2003, and Server 2008.
If your Server has crashed because of a failed hard drive, failed RAID, a corrupt operating system, or if someone accidentally deleted data or reformatted the drive, our engineers will be able to advise you what steps need to be taken to prevent further data loss, and for the immediate implementation of a recovery plan. They have experience of recovering Windows servers and operating systems, and are skilled at repairing corrupted NTFS volumes and dynamic disks.
RAID Recovery Experts
If your data or operating system resides on a failed RAID array, they have industry-leading RAID recovery skills, and frequently recover corrupt data from storage drives that have defeated other data recovery providers.
Outside the UK?
Getting your failed storage medium to us from the USA, mainland Europe or Australia poses little more effort than shipping from within the UK? To find out more, please visit our page on international data recovery
Common Problems
- Failed hard drive
- Software update caused a crash (or a failed firmware upgrade)
- RAID rebuild failed (server is hanging)
- Operating system is corrupt
- The data was deleted
- Power surge or power failure
- RAID controller failed
- Cannot access the server volume
Failed Windows Server / RAID Failure Causes
- Failed hard disk drive – or even multiple failed drives
- RAID controller failed
- Failed RAID rebuild
- Firmware update failed
- Power failure or surge
- IT Admin or user error (the leading cause of permanent RAID data loss)
- Incorrect drive swapped for RAID rebuild
- RAID array reinitialised / reinitialized
- Corrupted RAID
