Data Recovery in Inverness
Professional data recovery for Inverness and the Scottish Highlands — hard drives, SSDs, RAID arrays and NAS systems, recovered in our own specialist UK lab.
There’s no data recovery lab in the Highlands — and with the right postal service, that doesn’t matter. A drive handed in at a Post Office in Inverness, Nairn or Dingwall is on our bench the next working day, tracked and signed for the whole way. Prices from £350 including VAT, on a no data, no fee basis.
Your drive stays in our lab
Every recovery happens here — at our own lab on the Wirral, on our own benches, by our own engineers.
And when you want to know how your case is going, you get answers from the people actually doing the work, not a call centre script.
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How it works from Inverness
1. Start your case — Complete the recovery assessment form with what’s happened and what the drive is doing. We review every case properly before replying — you’ll get the likely pricing tier and clear next steps, with no obligation.
2. Send us your drive — We recommend Royal Mail Special Delivery Guaranteed: book it online, then hand it in at any Post Office branch (take the QR code and they’ll print the label for you), or book Parcel Collect and your postie picks it up from your door. It’s tracked, signed for and priority-handled — and it costs the same from Skye or Thurso as it does from Inverness city centre. Prefer a courier? We can arrange UPS door-to-door collection for £14.95 from mainland Scottish addresses. Pack the drive in a box with plenty of bubble wrap — not a padded envelope.
3. Approve, recover, return — We assess the drive, confirm a firm quote, and only proceed once you approve it. Recovered data is returned on new media by tracked courier. If we can’t recover meaningful data, there’s no recovery fee.
Serving Inverness and the Highlands — by design, not accident
Distance is irrelevant to a proper recovery. Whether your drive is in the city or out past Fort William, it receives identical treatment: the same lab, the same imaging hardware, the same engineer-led process. There’s no need to hand your drive to a computer shop or a “recovery service” working out of a mailbox address — many local-looking services forward your drive to a lab like ours anyway, adding days and handling for nothing. We recover data for Highland households, and for the tourism, hospitality and rural businesses the region runs on — from single external drives to multi-disk arrays — with dedicated pages for Aberdeen and Dundee too. See our dedicated pages for external hard drive recovery, NAS data recovery and RAID data recovery, or get in touch and we’ll identify what you’re dealing with.
Data recovery in Inverness — common questions
How do I get my drive to you from Inverness?
Most Highland customers send by Royal Mail Special Delivery Guaranteed — book it online, then either hand it in at a Post Office branch (take the QR code and they’ll print the label for you) or book Royal Mail’s Parcel Collect and your postie picks it up from your door. It costs the same from the Black Isle or the west coast as it does from Inverness itself — which makes it the obvious choice this far north. Worth knowing: Royal Mail only accept Special Delivery items at Post Office branches and their own Customer Service Points — not parcel shops, lockers or postboxes. Prefer a courier anyway? We can arrange UPS door-to-door collection for £14.95 from mainland Scottish addresses. And if you’re ever passing the North West, you’re welcome to drop off in person by appointment.
Is it safe to post a failed hard drive from Inverness?
Yes — failed drives travel well when packed properly. Use a rigid box with plenty of bubble wrap around the drive (never just a padded envelope), and send it by Royal Mail Special Delivery Guaranteed — Royal Mail’s premium service and the one we recommend: fully tracked, signed for on delivery, and treated with priority handling end to end. Drives arrive with us from across Scotland this way every week, including from other data recovery companies. If your drive has been dropped or is making unusual noises, don’t power it up again to test it — pack it as it is.
Why not use a data recovery company in Inverness?
Use whoever has the right lab — genuine recovery labs are rare anywhere in the UK, and many “local” services are shopfronts that forward your drive to a lab like ours anyway. Coming to Dragon directly means your device is handled by the engineers actually doing the work, and you deal with the lab itself from first contact to return delivery.
My RAID or NAS has failed — can you handle multi-drive systems?
Yes — RAID and NAS recovery is a core specialism of the lab. Power the system down, leave it down, and start with the recovery assessment form; rebuilding or re-initialising a degraded array is the most common way data gets destroyed before it reaches us.
How long does the round trip take from Inverness?
Shipping adds a day each way at most — Special Delivery is next-working-day even from the Highlands. Every case then moves through the same three stages: assessment, a firm quote for your approval, then the recovery itself. Straightforward cases are often completed within days of approval, while mechanical failures can take longer — particularly where matching donor parts have to be sourced. If your case is time-critical, say so on the recovery assessment form — urgent cases can be prioritised.
What does it cost?
Logical recoveries start from £350 and mechanical recoveries from £450, both including VAT. RAID, NAS and complex cases are quoted individually. You’ll always receive a firm quote for approval before any chargeable work begins — and if we can’t recover meaningful data, there’s no recovery fee, so a drive posted from Inverness risks only the postage.
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