Advanceddatarecovery Reviews 6

This is a Scam, does not provide a service as advertised. Does not provide a free no obligation quote and has taken £180 prior to running the correct diagnostic to only tell me they haven't been able to recover the data. Will be pursuing with FTC, MET Police and Action Fraud.

Please read below (this company is the same as Bristol data recovery' reviewed below)

This company is not as it seems. Their website leads you to believe that they have multiple locations and large nationwide team. After dropping my hard drive into their 'office' which is merely a desk front that receives their mail - I did some research...
It turns out there is one location in Ireland which is run by a small team, not the many locations listed on the website, they are all office fronts.
The website promised data recovery within 2-3 days, and after about 10 days since posting my hard drive and several emails to try and chase up what was taking so long, I was told my recovery was complete and to make payment. I then realised the recovery report had gone into my junk mail (which was odd as other emails had not) The report showed that only 260gb from a 1TB hard drive had been recovered...certainly not the 98% that was estimated to me through email.
I then proceeded to call the company to tell them I did not want the recovery saved and to refund me as in my eyes it was an unsuccessful attempt. Whoever I spoke to (I did not get their name) was quite rude to me and I was left quite upset. Eventually I got my refund but I was also sent an email with the line 'Further recovery of any data from damaged drive will not be possible due to bad state of disk platters’ so my disk was now being sent back to me in a worse state than before.
Since my experience I have spoken to another data recovery expert who has told me (in writing) that they have heard several stories from customers about this company and 'Tony' who runs it, who go's under the trade name 'easy data' on companies house.

UPDATE: I am now being threatened with legal action by ‘Tony’ if I don’t delete this this review.

AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!!!!

SCAMMERS! I have filed a complaint with the council and actionfraud as they have scammed me £177 even though their website (Homepage and FAQs) says no fix no fee. They are refusing to pay my money back and even disposed of my memory card.

Do not use, I am going to investigate this case until the end.

Does not operate a no fee no cost scheme. This is an absolute scam and the guy who claimed to be Tony understands that it is impossible to take any legal actions as he would not be responsible for any legal fees incurred.

Thanks to Advance Data Recovery I managed to meet my deadline and keep my clients happy. They worked hard over a short period of time to recover all my data. Tony was very professional and kept me informed at every stage of this nerve-wrecking process. Losing your data is something you hope will never happen to you, but when disaster happens it's good to know that there are someone who can save the day!

We lost access to a 60GB virtual drive through resizing operations on the disk. Advanced Data Recovery were able to quickly provide reassurance around the state of the disk, process the disk and recover the data. This was a critical process for us and they did not let us down. I hopefully won't need to use them again, but if I find myself in the same difficult situation, I would definitely use them!