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Data Recovery Egham

Home to Royal Holloway and the Magna Carta meadows of Runnymede, Egham keeps our lab busy with student laptops and failed drives — and dissertation deadlines always jump the queue.

Free diagnostic for every Egham customer. Fixed quote before any work — no fix, no fee.

// data recovery for egham

Egham is defined by two things — the Magna Carta meadows at Runnymede and the hilltop campus of Royal Holloway — and both shape the work that reaches us. Term-time brings a steady run of TW20 student laptops that died a week before hand-in, USB sticks snapped in library machines, and external drives holding the only copy of a year's research. Add the town's professionals and small businesses and you have a postcode that leans heavily on portable storage, which is precisely the storage that fails first.

Because we're the Staines side of the service and hold no walk-in premises, getting a device to us is deliberately painless. We arrange tracked, insured postage or a free courier collection from your Egham address or hall of residence, and the device travels to our send-in lab in Guildford — itself a university town, barely half an hour away. It's usually on a bench the next working day.

Students facing a deadline should say so from the outset: urgent cases are flagged on arrival and most laptop recoveries finish within days of your go-ahead, because the storage inside a dead laptop is nearly always intact. Every job gets a free diagnostic and one fixed written quote, with no fix, no fee on logical recoveries. Physical and mechanical faults are quoted up front with a 50% deposit, and we'll never start work without your say-so.

// what we recover

Devices we recover for Egham

// getting your device to us

Post or courier your device from Egham — it's simple

Most customers post or courier their media to us.

Sending a drive from a computer, laptop, MacBook, iMac, CCTV / DVR or server? Please remove the internal hard drive or SSD and send us just the drive — we don't provide an internal drive-removal service. We don't recover storage soldered to a motherboard (e.g. Apple Silicon Macs and some thin laptops) — only drives that can be removed and sent to us.

  • Wrap the device in bubble wrap or a padded envelope — no need to include cables or power supplies.
  • Print and enclose the booking-in & shipping form (PDF) with your name, phone number and a brief description of what happened.
  • Send by Royal Mail Special Delivery or any tracked courier for full insurance in transit.
  • Prefer to hand it over in person? You can drop it in at reception at the address shown, Mon–Fri 9:00am–5:30pm.
// send your device to your nearest location

Guildford Data Recovery

Building 2, Ground Floor
Guildford Business Park
Guildford, GU2 8XH

↓ Print the booking-in & shipping form (PDF)

Mark the package for the attention of Guildford Data Recovery and we'll call you as soon as we diagnose your media.

Not sure what to send? Call 0800 689 0668 first or use the free online diagnostic.

// egham questions

Common questions

Tell us the deadline when you call and we'll prioritise it. The hard drive or SSD inside a laptop that won't power on is usually perfectly readable — we remove it, recover directly, and can turn urgent student jobs around in days once you approve the quote.
No car needed. We book a free courier collection from your Egham address or the campus, or send you Special Delivery instructions. The device goes to our Guildford location and we ring you as soon as the free diagnostic is complete.
Usually yes, provided the memory chip itself survived — we repair the connector or read the chip directly. Post all the pieces together. The diagnostic is free, so you'll know what's recoverable before paying anything.

Egham, your data is closer than you think.

Free diagnostic, fixed quote, no fix no fee — start now or call the freephone.