When a drive fails in Slough, you don’t have to ship it off to London or hand it to some faceless national chain. Oxford Data Recovery sits just 45 miles up the M4, and we’ve been lifting data off servers, NAS boxes, camera cards, SSDs and hard drives on our own benches since 2002. Pop in on your way past, or send it by post — either way the diagnostic is free, and most jobs are no fix, no fee.
Roughly 65 minutes and 45 miles separate Slough from our bench — drop it in yourself, or put it in the post.
Slough is a Berkshire town of roughly 164,000 built around one of the largest trading estates in Europe, with corporate headquarters, logistics operations and a dense concentration of data-handling businesses. All of that adds up to a great deal of information no one could stand to lose — accounts, client files, photos, years of work.
A drive that has failed usually still holds every byte intact — the trouble almost always lies with the heads, the controller board or the file system rather than the data itself, which just has to be read off with care by people who do it day in, day out. Oxford Science Park is only 45 miles off, so calling in is straightforward — though the post works just as well, and the return trip is on us.
Bringing data back since 2002 — a written diagnostic at no charge, a set price agreed before we start, and no fee on most jobs unless we succeed.
Most of the time, no. A drive that looks “dead” has usually kept its data whole — the failure sits in the heads, the board or the file system — and that data just needs slough off cleanly, right on the first pass, by someone who handles these day in, day out.
We’re in Oxford, about 45 miles from you, and we’ve been doing precisely this for people in Slough since 2002. Being close by gives you a choice: swing past the Oxford unit if it suits your route, or send it fully insured through the post. Every job opens with a free diagnostic and a set price, and for most there’s no fee unless the recovery works.
The postcodes we see most from here — and the surrounding villages and estates we cover just the same.
Alongside Slough itself (SL1–SL2), drives reach us from right across the surrounding area — Langley, Cippenham, Chalvey, Burnham, Datchet, Farnham Royal and Upton Park. Whether you’re in the centre of Slough or out in one of the villages, the drive can come to our Oxford unit or travel by tracked post — the free diagnostic and no-fix-no-fee terms are exactly the same either way.
A commuter town with a real business core — and the failures that come with both.
Slough runs on professionals who commute out and firms that stay put, so the drives we see from SL1 through SL1 fall into two camps. There are the home-office setups — a work SSD that died overnight with a fortnight of unsaved work on it, or an external backup that stopped mounting the morning it was actually needed. And there are the businesses around the town centre, Sheerwater and Goldsworth Park — a Synology or QNAP NAS that has dropped a disk, a small server that won’t boot, a shared drive locked up by ransomware.
Because Slough sits just six miles up the M4, most people drop the device in on the way past and the rest send it by tracked courier — the same free diagnostic either way, the same fixed quote before any work, and no fix, no fee on the vast majority of jobs. Parents and photographers bring in camera and phone cards too, formatted by accident or corrupted mid-shoot, and those tend to be the quickest returns of all.
Slough is near enough that plenty of people just carry the drive in — but if the trip doesn’t suit, the post is every bit as simple.
Ring or message with the device and the fault, and we’ll put a likely figure to it straight away.
Bring the device — or, for laptops, NAS and servers, just the drive — to the Oxford unit, weekdays 9am–5:30pm, or send it fully insured.
We look it over, generally inside 48 hours, and send a fixed quote in writing before a thing is done.
We run the recovery, check it against a file listing, and you either pick it up from us or we ship it back on fresh media.
Bring it in and you skip the postal leg altogether. Pressing cases can usually jump the queue — just say so when you ring.
A quick look at what we take on for Slough — follow any one through for the detail.
Send us your device for a free diagnostic, and tell us a little about what happened — an engineer will review it and confirm your exact quote in writing before any work begins.
Getting your data back begins with getting the device to us. Pack it up safely, pop your contact details inside, and send it over — once we’ve run the free diagnostic, we’ll confirm your exact price in writing before any work starts.
Posting it? A tracked, insured service is what we’d recommend. Rather drop it in? You’re welcome Monday to Friday, 9am to 5:30pm — just package the device up as above first.
Want a bit more detail first? Fill in the form with more about your issue and an engineer will review it and send you a custom quote.
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We’re in Oxford — about 45 miles and 15 minutes from Slough on the M4 — and we’ve served Slough from there since 2002. Call in weekdays, 9am to 5:30pm, or send your device to us fully insured.
Take your pick. Slough is close enough that many people leave the drive with us as they pass through Oxford — for laptops, NAS and servers, bring the drive alone, labelled. Prefer not to travel? Send it insured and tracked. Both ways begin with a free diagnostic and a fixed quote.
Anything that stores data — databases and servers, NAS units and RAID arrays, external drives, laptops and Macs, camera cards and USB sticks, SSDs and hard drives. Formatted card or dropped drive, failed array or ransomware, all of it is worth a free look.
The whole of Slough and everything around it — Horsell, Knaphill, St Johns, Goldsworth Park, Sheerwater, West Byfleet, Byfleet, Old Slough and Brookwood included. Wherever you are, the service and the pricing don’t change.
Most recoveries land inside three to four working days, and the free diagnostic is usually done within 48 hours. As a rough guide, a memory card or USB stick starts at £250 + VAT, any single hard drive or SSD at £300 + VAT, and RAID, NAS or a server from £500 + VAT — always quoted in writing first, with no fee on most jobs unless we get the data back.
A written diagnostic for nothing, no fee on most jobs unless we recover it, and more than twenty years of doing this just 45 miles up the road. Call into Oxford, or send it in fully insured.