DataRecoveryMan - Recovering files for Mac & Windows formatted hard drives, we recover files for less with affordable flat rates and free evaluations! Professional data recovery services at some of the lowest prices. 100's of hard drives a year and is trusted by the local community including Apple stores and IT technicians. We offer an honest approach to data recovery pricing with flat rates.
Logical Repair: Virus / Spyware Infections, Blue Screen or Spin-Wheel, Unmountable Mac Volume, Human Errors (Delete, format), Damaged MFT / FAT tables, Unidentified Drive Volume, Minor Bad Blocks, "Unrepairable" Mac Volume, Missing Boot Files.
Non-Invasive Hard Drive Recovery: Exceeded SMART errors, Unreadable Data Blocks, Occasional Clicking, Slow Read Times / BSY, Unstable Read Times, Module Corruption / Bricked, UNC Block errors, LBA Mis-Match, Chip Burnout.
Invasive Hard Drive Recovery: Constant Clicking, Head Crash, Moisture / fluid Damage, Firmware (SA / ROM), No Power / Not Spinning, Seized or Failed Spindle, HDA Failures, Voice Coil, Severe PCB damage.
Jon Y. (Santa Ana, CA, USA)
Needed to recover some corrupt video files and went to Data Recovery Man to see if they could repair them for me. They went through it once and said they didn't have any luck repair the corrupted video files. Then they called the next day saying they tried another option and luckily it had fixed all the corrupted files from the SD card. Thanks a lot guys!
Kirk D. (Orange, CA, USA)
DataRecoveryMan is great but the receptionist seem annoyed helping. Let me rewind. I had an SSD drive crash and found DataRecoveryMan. I gave him a shot and I dig him. He tries to breakdown the issue and answer questions as best as he can. I spoke with him twice on the phone. Although the SSD couldn't be saved bc the model was too new and he didn't have the needed parts, I really felt like Simon tried what he could. He even went around and tried to find someone else to help out.
Now the receptionist - I had 3 encounters with her. The first was by phone. The lady who answered was quick with me, I almost said no thanks and moved on. But I figured, hey everyone has an off day. She transferred me to DataRecoveryMan and he was super cool and sealed the deal for me. The next 2 encounters with her were when I dropped off and picked up my SSD. The same receptionist seemed annoyed and came across rude.
The first time I let it go. The next two just felt jacked to me. I was in front of another customer who even gave me a look at how she acted toward me. It was pretty uncomfortable. Besides that, I can't really talk about DataRecoveryMan's work bc like I said the drive couldn't be saved. I will say Simon is very knowledgeable and helpful. The receptionist though almost made me walk out and needs to relax a bit.
Ryan P. (Newport Beach, CA, USA)
DataRecoveryMan saved the day. Though my seagate 2tb was a secondary drive, it held my most important business files and I had windows using it for temp storage, app data, and media. So the loss was detrimental. The drive was so bad it would timeout my computer and the computer would not recognize it. Took the drive to DataRecoveryMan, who did a quick prognosis and an evaluation of the drive at time of drop off. DataRecoveryMan gave an honest evaluation with the odds of data recovery. And a broad estimate of how much data can likely be recovered. Based on prognosis, he gives price estimate (according to level of repair) on the spot. The next day I dropped off a new drive and DataRecoveryMan showed an updated prognosis and more accurate idea of how much data can be recovered. By the end of the day a new drive was ready for pickup with what looks to be all data recovered. Sweet relief. If having drive problems, take no chances and don't play with it. Pull it out asap and run it straight over to DataRecoveryMan. He's your best chance of recovery.
Lauren E. (Costa Mesa, CA, USA)
DataRecoveryMan saved my sanity and all my photos I have taken in the past 7 years. My 1tb drive has been knocked around too much through a few moves, and as soon as I realized it wasn't working I saw the reviews for DataRecoveryMan and immediately handed my drive over. Simon got back to me the next day and nicely explained that he would need to do the highest level of recovery on it. He was extremely kind on the phone, even when I got emotional about losing all of my photos. Two weeks later, I have my drive back and everything is there. I can't recommend him enough. I knew I couldn't take any chances with it, and I trusted him through every step. It's definitely expensive, but worth it to know your data is in the right hands. Also - yes, the receptionist wasn't great. Don't let that deter you from coming here.
Henry K. (Costa Mesa, CA, USA)
So my HDD crashes on my desktop PC in the middle of putting together my year taxes! Cold sweat and chills all over my body... Yes, I was one of THOSE guys "who needs to back-up files?, this computer is only two years old!" Well, all of a sudden, I needed help. Taxes, important business documents, lots of pictures, etc! After going to the computer store and getting a DIY fix which, btw, did nothing but take some $ out of my wallet, I asked same store's service department how much to fix... opening line was $1700, plus repairs. I called my IT guy at work and he said to just write it up to experience and move on.
Soooo, I hopped on another computer and searched Yelp, and that is what lead me to Data Recovery Man. I gave them a call, left a message, and DataRecoveryMan personally phoned me back in a couple of hours. I answered the questions he asked, and he broke things down to a 3-tiered schedule of fees, from least costly to most, depending on what had to be done. He thoroughly explained the possibilities and said he would be able to let me know exact costs within 24-48 hours of inspecting the drive. I dropped the drive off the next day. True to his word, DataRecoveryMan called me within 48 hours with a price to retrieve all of the data and put it on a new hard drive. The price was under $400!!! I told him to please go ahead, and I picked up the new drive with all the transferred information, and my old dead drive in a couple of days.
I am so impressed by the service and costs that I am telling everyone I know that Data Recovery Man, and Simon is the place to go when the unexpected occurs. Great service, honest pricing, stellar customer service. I also have to add that every time I went to the DRM office (perhaps 3 occasions), the receptionists were friendly, attentive, and very helpful. 5 Big Stars!!!
Michael P. (Long Beach, CA, USA)
DataRecoveryMan is the real deal! My HDD failed with several years of worth of precious pictures and documents. It wasn't dropped or damaged. It just stopped being able to be accessed by my computer. I could hear that it was still spinning normally. My first instinct was to take it to the local computer repair shop that was highly recommended by friends I trust. They had the hard drive for two weeks and during that time, never contacted with me with progress updates. I just got a call one day that said we were unable to recover your data and they recommended a clean room service that would cost $1500 and up. I didn't want to mail my drive somewhere, so I began a search that ended up with me contacting Data Recovery Man. I left a message on their website on a Saturday and Simon called me back the same day. He told me to bring in the drive for a free evaluation and we would take it from there. I dropped off the drive at his beautiful office and he called me promptly to explain what was going on with the drive. A few days later, he called me again and had a list of directories he had found. Since the drive was badly damaged, I narrowed it down to the top folders I wanted. The other files I still had on my desktop. He proceeded to image those folders and then sent me a list of the files that were corrupted. Out of approximately 700K files on this 3TB drive, 54 had issues. I was very happy and at that time I signed the contract and paid him. He was very clear on what I would be getting; which was 99.9% of the data I had asked for.
When I picked up the drive, I got home and noticed that some files he promised where missing. He was more than accommodating in making sure the missing files were re-imaged onto the back up drive I provided. In the end, I got back everything I needed except for those 54 files that were in the damaged area of the drive. DataRecoveryMan was a true professional the entire time. While the process was not cheap, it was cheaper than mailing it off to somewhere unknown and I felt like I got just the right amount of follow up and concern from DataRecoveryMan. I would not hesitate to recommend his service. Oh, and Simon taught me a valuable lesson, I should have never taken the drive to a service that didn't have the tools and technique to work on my hard drive. The more time that a drive is spent in operation once it has failed, the greater the chance it has of failing completely at any moment. I had run many self tests and had it at another repair shop too. It's so great that Simon was able to get all that he did off the drive. Good luck!
Alfonso G. (Cerritos, CA, USA)
I had a Seagate 500GB external HDD that my son accidentally tripped over and dropped while in use. The hard drive immediately began to throw out errors and was no longer accessible on my computer. I tried plugging the hard drive into a couple other computers and none of them recognized the drive. My final option was to take the actual hard drive out of the external casing and plug it into the computer's mother board using a SATA cable - this was unsuccessful.
After exhausting all viable options, I did some research online and came across DataRecoveryMan on Yelp. I immediately knew this would be a Level 3 job and that it would get pretty pricey. Because of this, it took me 2 years to save up some money before I pulled the trigger. I finally called DataRecoveryMan this month and took the hard drive in. After evaluating the drive, Simon confirmed this would be a Level 3 job and it would take 10-12 days. After 12 long days, I received word from Simon that my hard drive was recoverable and it would be done the next morning. My wife and I were so happy. We were finally getting back all of our lost memories of 10 years!
The next day I picked up the hard drive and was very impressed with DataRecoveryMan's work. There was one file that was over 4GB and couldn't get copied to my new external hard drive because of the format I requested (FAT32). Simon took the liberty of copying that file onto a flash drive for me at no extra cost. The other thing that impressed me was his clean work. He returned my new external hard drive in its original packaging with my receipt nicely folded and taped to the front.
Finally thoughts: DataRecoveryMan is a true professional that does nice, clean work. Price is competitive, if not lower than other data recovery companies. If you ever need your hard drive recovered, please go to him, you will not be sorry! Thanks again!!!
Kelsi K. (Huntington Beach, CA, USA)
So I wrote a scathing review for the Cerritos Apple store because they mis-diagnosed my computer and all of my data ended up corrupted because of this. Long story short, I got two recommendations from Apple for places that could potentially recover some of my screwed up data - the Tech Room in Newport Beach and Data Recovery Man.
The first place I went was the Tech Room, because I was told I'd get a better price, and it happened to be closer. They took a look at my data and said that it couldn't be recovered by them, but they could send it to a third party and have them try to recover it to the tune of $1000+. No thank you.
So I went to the DataRecoveryMan, the second recommendation, and not only was Simon able to recover most, if not all, of my data he recovered it for less than half the price of what the third party from Tech Room would have charged me. Also, on top of Simon being able to do his job incredibly well, his communication was very good and he was willing to work with me when I got sick unable to pick up my data on time. DataRecoveryMan deserves nothing less than 5 stars! Thank you!
Logical Repair: Virus / Spyware Infections, Blue Screen or Spin-Wheel, Unmountable Mac Volume, Human Errors (Delete, format), Damaged MFT / FAT tables, Unidentified Drive Volume, Minor Bad Blocks, "Unrepairable" Mac Volume, Missing Boot Files.
Non-Invasive Hard Drive Recovery: Exceeded SMART errors, Unreadable Data Blocks, Occasional Clicking, Slow Read Times / BSY, Unstable Read Times, Module Corruption / Bricked, UNC Block errors, LBA Mis-Match, Chip Burnout.
Invasive Hard Drive Recovery: Constant Clicking, Head Crash, Moisture / fluid Damage, Firmware (SA / ROM), No Power / Not Spinning, Seized or Failed Spindle, HDA Failures, Voice Coil, Severe PCB damage.
Jon Y. (Santa Ana, CA, USA)
Needed to recover some corrupt video files and went to Data Recovery Man to see if they could repair them for me. They went through it once and said they didn't have any luck repair the corrupted video files. Then they called the next day saying they tried another option and luckily it had fixed all the corrupted files from the SD card. Thanks a lot guys!
Kirk D. (Orange, CA, USA)
DataRecoveryMan is great but the receptionist seem annoyed helping. Let me rewind. I had an SSD drive crash and found DataRecoveryMan. I gave him a shot and I dig him. He tries to breakdown the issue and answer questions as best as he can. I spoke with him twice on the phone. Although the SSD couldn't be saved bc the model was too new and he didn't have the needed parts, I really felt like Simon tried what he could. He even went around and tried to find someone else to help out.
Now the receptionist - I had 3 encounters with her. The first was by phone. The lady who answered was quick with me, I almost said no thanks and moved on. But I figured, hey everyone has an off day. She transferred me to DataRecoveryMan and he was super cool and sealed the deal for me. The next 2 encounters with her were when I dropped off and picked up my SSD. The same receptionist seemed annoyed and came across rude.
The first time I let it go. The next two just felt jacked to me. I was in front of another customer who even gave me a look at how she acted toward me. It was pretty uncomfortable. Besides that, I can't really talk about DataRecoveryMan's work bc like I said the drive couldn't be saved. I will say Simon is very knowledgeable and helpful. The receptionist though almost made me walk out and needs to relax a bit.
Ryan P. (Newport Beach, CA, USA)
DataRecoveryMan saved the day. Though my seagate 2tb was a secondary drive, it held my most important business files and I had windows using it for temp storage, app data, and media. So the loss was detrimental. The drive was so bad it would timeout my computer and the computer would not recognize it. Took the drive to DataRecoveryMan, who did a quick prognosis and an evaluation of the drive at time of drop off. DataRecoveryMan gave an honest evaluation with the odds of data recovery. And a broad estimate of how much data can likely be recovered. Based on prognosis, he gives price estimate (according to level of repair) on the spot. The next day I dropped off a new drive and DataRecoveryMan showed an updated prognosis and more accurate idea of how much data can be recovered. By the end of the day a new drive was ready for pickup with what looks to be all data recovered. Sweet relief. If having drive problems, take no chances and don't play with it. Pull it out asap and run it straight over to DataRecoveryMan. He's your best chance of recovery.
Lauren E. (Costa Mesa, CA, USA)
DataRecoveryMan saved my sanity and all my photos I have taken in the past 7 years. My 1tb drive has been knocked around too much through a few moves, and as soon as I realized it wasn't working I saw the reviews for DataRecoveryMan and immediately handed my drive over. Simon got back to me the next day and nicely explained that he would need to do the highest level of recovery on it. He was extremely kind on the phone, even when I got emotional about losing all of my photos. Two weeks later, I have my drive back and everything is there. I can't recommend him enough. I knew I couldn't take any chances with it, and I trusted him through every step. It's definitely expensive, but worth it to know your data is in the right hands. Also - yes, the receptionist wasn't great. Don't let that deter you from coming here.
Henry K. (Costa Mesa, CA, USA)
So my HDD crashes on my desktop PC in the middle of putting together my year taxes! Cold sweat and chills all over my body... Yes, I was one of THOSE guys "who needs to back-up files?, this computer is only two years old!" Well, all of a sudden, I needed help. Taxes, important business documents, lots of pictures, etc! After going to the computer store and getting a DIY fix which, btw, did nothing but take some $ out of my wallet, I asked same store's service department how much to fix... opening line was $1700, plus repairs. I called my IT guy at work and he said to just write it up to experience and move on.
Soooo, I hopped on another computer and searched Yelp, and that is what lead me to Data Recovery Man. I gave them a call, left a message, and DataRecoveryMan personally phoned me back in a couple of hours. I answered the questions he asked, and he broke things down to a 3-tiered schedule of fees, from least costly to most, depending on what had to be done. He thoroughly explained the possibilities and said he would be able to let me know exact costs within 24-48 hours of inspecting the drive. I dropped the drive off the next day. True to his word, DataRecoveryMan called me within 48 hours with a price to retrieve all of the data and put it on a new hard drive. The price was under $400!!! I told him to please go ahead, and I picked up the new drive with all the transferred information, and my old dead drive in a couple of days.
I am so impressed by the service and costs that I am telling everyone I know that Data Recovery Man, and Simon is the place to go when the unexpected occurs. Great service, honest pricing, stellar customer service. I also have to add that every time I went to the DRM office (perhaps 3 occasions), the receptionists were friendly, attentive, and very helpful. 5 Big Stars!!!
Michael P. (Long Beach, CA, USA)
DataRecoveryMan is the real deal! My HDD failed with several years of worth of precious pictures and documents. It wasn't dropped or damaged. It just stopped being able to be accessed by my computer. I could hear that it was still spinning normally. My first instinct was to take it to the local computer repair shop that was highly recommended by friends I trust. They had the hard drive for two weeks and during that time, never contacted with me with progress updates. I just got a call one day that said we were unable to recover your data and they recommended a clean room service that would cost $1500 and up. I didn't want to mail my drive somewhere, so I began a search that ended up with me contacting Data Recovery Man. I left a message on their website on a Saturday and Simon called me back the same day. He told me to bring in the drive for a free evaluation and we would take it from there. I dropped off the drive at his beautiful office and he called me promptly to explain what was going on with the drive. A few days later, he called me again and had a list of directories he had found. Since the drive was badly damaged, I narrowed it down to the top folders I wanted. The other files I still had on my desktop. He proceeded to image those folders and then sent me a list of the files that were corrupted. Out of approximately 700K files on this 3TB drive, 54 had issues. I was very happy and at that time I signed the contract and paid him. He was very clear on what I would be getting; which was 99.9% of the data I had asked for.
When I picked up the drive, I got home and noticed that some files he promised where missing. He was more than accommodating in making sure the missing files were re-imaged onto the back up drive I provided. In the end, I got back everything I needed except for those 54 files that were in the damaged area of the drive. DataRecoveryMan was a true professional the entire time. While the process was not cheap, it was cheaper than mailing it off to somewhere unknown and I felt like I got just the right amount of follow up and concern from DataRecoveryMan. I would not hesitate to recommend his service. Oh, and Simon taught me a valuable lesson, I should have never taken the drive to a service that didn't have the tools and technique to work on my hard drive. The more time that a drive is spent in operation once it has failed, the greater the chance it has of failing completely at any moment. I had run many self tests and had it at another repair shop too. It's so great that Simon was able to get all that he did off the drive. Good luck!
Alfonso G. (Cerritos, CA, USA)
I had a Seagate 500GB external HDD that my son accidentally tripped over and dropped while in use. The hard drive immediately began to throw out errors and was no longer accessible on my computer. I tried plugging the hard drive into a couple other computers and none of them recognized the drive. My final option was to take the actual hard drive out of the external casing and plug it into the computer's mother board using a SATA cable - this was unsuccessful.
After exhausting all viable options, I did some research online and came across DataRecoveryMan on Yelp. I immediately knew this would be a Level 3 job and that it would get pretty pricey. Because of this, it took me 2 years to save up some money before I pulled the trigger. I finally called DataRecoveryMan this month and took the hard drive in. After evaluating the drive, Simon confirmed this would be a Level 3 job and it would take 10-12 days. After 12 long days, I received word from Simon that my hard drive was recoverable and it would be done the next morning. My wife and I were so happy. We were finally getting back all of our lost memories of 10 years!
The next day I picked up the hard drive and was very impressed with DataRecoveryMan's work. There was one file that was over 4GB and couldn't get copied to my new external hard drive because of the format I requested (FAT32). Simon took the liberty of copying that file onto a flash drive for me at no extra cost. The other thing that impressed me was his clean work. He returned my new external hard drive in its original packaging with my receipt nicely folded and taped to the front.
Finally thoughts: DataRecoveryMan is a true professional that does nice, clean work. Price is competitive, if not lower than other data recovery companies. If you ever need your hard drive recovered, please go to him, you will not be sorry! Thanks again!!!
Kelsi K. (Huntington Beach, CA, USA)
So I wrote a scathing review for the Cerritos Apple store because they mis-diagnosed my computer and all of my data ended up corrupted because of this. Long story short, I got two recommendations from Apple for places that could potentially recover some of my screwed up data - the Tech Room in Newport Beach and Data Recovery Man.
The first place I went was the Tech Room, because I was told I'd get a better price, and it happened to be closer. They took a look at my data and said that it couldn't be recovered by them, but they could send it to a third party and have them try to recover it to the tune of $1000+. No thank you.
So I went to the DataRecoveryMan, the second recommendation, and not only was Simon able to recover most, if not all, of my data he recovered it for less than half the price of what the third party from Tech Room would have charged me. Also, on top of Simon being able to do his job incredibly well, his communication was very good and he was willing to work with me when I got sick unable to pick up my data on time. DataRecoveryMan deserves nothing less than 5 stars! Thank you!
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