I was very worried that my drive would remain inaccessible but am very pleased to report that…read moreeverything was recovered. Excellent service and affordable. Greg - Toronto

200% satisfaction customer service. I would say the service of this company is the best amongst…read moreall others. now I am their permanent customer and I trust them blindly. I have referred my all other friends to this company and they are thankful to me. sandeep

I literally went to 4 different data recovery companies before ReStoring and all those places told…read moreme that my external harddrive was either too damaged that it couldn't be fixed or was charging an absurd amount ($5,000!!!!). I found ReStoring by doing a Google Search for places close to me in the downtown Toronto area, read the reviews and gave them a chance. I felt comfortable trusting them just from my very first conversation with Monty. After that, their professionalism and communication was very appreciated. They kept trying to recover my data until they were able to recover almost 85% of it. I was more than happy with that because I had some very valuable memories on there! Thank you Ilana for your hardwork and getting me my memories back! I truly appreciate it!!!!

We had an issue with our computer that resulted in harddrive on the computer being wiped out…read morecompletely. The issue also resulted in our external hard drive being erased. As a result we lost every picture and video we have taken of our kids over the last 7 years. My wife and I researched many data recovery companies and finally selected ReStoring Data Inc. based on other reviews and their standing with the BBB. We are very pleased we used them as they were able to recover every one of our pictures and videos. I would not hesitate to recommend ReStoring data to any of my friends. Peter G

I wasn't sure who to call regarding external hard drive recovery needs. I found Data Lab 247 on…read moreline. Read their reviews and being close to home, thought to give them a try. The experience was excellent. Every step of the way I was explained what would happen, options and costs. The person I dealt with was friendly and very helpful. In the end my data was recovered and I did get value for the money spent.

As a small local computer repair shop, we do not possess the expertise to perform complicated lab…read moredata recoveries, requiring replacement of internal components. We heard about Sergei's business through a long time business associate. On the business side, if you run a computer repair shop, I would highly recommend getting in touch with Sergei so that you can offer fast and highly reliable data recovery with good margin compared to other labs that offer wholesale work. For end users (customers), Datalab247 has always been able to recover an exceptionally high percentage of data for many drives that we thought were beyond repair at an excellent price and usually faster than quoted timelines.

Excellent fast, service. My external hard drive quit working after I moved to a new place. I…read morecalled Datalab spoke to Sergi, filled out a form online, and they came and picked up my drive for free the same day. My hard drive was cloned to another Mac compatible external drive (that they supplied) and they delivered it four days later, again free of charge. It works perfectly. A four day turn over and I didn't have to leave my house! The total cost was reasonable. I highly recommend them for your next data recovery job.

^_^ Went there to repair my computer as my hard drive had broke down. They did a quick speedy…read morerepair, only a day. Service was fast, affordable, and friendly.

This is going to be quite an extensive review and probably mostly useful to people with some IT…read moreknowledge. Because I can't just say that they're incompetent or that they're not. See below why. I had a HDD that was not accessible in Windows any more. So I dropped it off at this location (they currently have two drop off locations) and waited. First plus: They told me about the price and asked me to confirm within 24h. And they actually recovered what appears to be all the data (not easy to be sure with multiple 100 gigs) after just one work day. But then there was already the first suspicious incident: They put logs of which files they recovered on their server and sent me the link to it. There was no HTTPS authentication or anything, the list of all my files was there for anyone to take. (They did remove it very quickly though after I asked them to) When I got the drive from them, it was not readable. Windows asked me to format it before use and the file system showed up as RAW. Along comes the next suspicious incident... talking to one of their technicians about this issue. He asked what operating system I was using and whether I used the drive internally or externally. Fine. I used it internally and the issue was that Windows reported the file system as RAW and asked me to format the drive when trying to access it. The technician advised me to try it in an external enclosure. I did not see how that would change anything about either partition table, file system or anything really that could be at fault but alright - freak things do happen. He also said I might then still have issues because I use Windows 7 and that might have issues with external storage. So OK, I tried it out on Windows 7 and XP. Funnily enough, the disk management of Windows 7 reported at least the right size, that of XP did not (the drive was supposedly ~900GB big when it really was just ~470). Now comes another plus - because of these issues and special circumstances they agreed to have a technician meet me at the drop off location and sell me an external drive with my data on it (I only had to pay for the drive, no service charges - and although I have not checked exactly what drive it is and what state it is in yet, $100 for 750GB sounds reasonable), showing me the actual data. However... the meeting... I brought the disk they sent me in the enclosure because they asked me to, so they can check it out for themselves too. I did not screw anything tight because it was just going to be in there for a matter of hours anyway. The technician picks it up, due to the lack of screws, it moves a bit inside and he says that it's no wonder that it's not working - there are parts moving inside and that it has been stored wrong. Now... I'm not up to date with internal 3,5" drive technology but at least about 10 years ago, I learned that such drives are very vulnerable to physical shock. So I was slightly horrified when he actually SHOOK it! After my explanation, he proceeded from the shaking to plugging it in and... here is another thing I at least learned back when - that such drives are highly vulnerable while they are running and one should under no circumstances touch them while they are powered on. And that they are especially sensitive while they spin up. Well... while it was spinning up, he picked it up and held it to his ear! Between these things, he explained something about a possible mechanical issue that may have corrupted the drive and something about bad sectors, which all sounded very fishy because of the experience I had in the past with mechanical issues and bad sectors and also what I had read about it. It seemed to me like he just wanted to feed me ANY explanation really. (And having by now done a 4 hour surface test on the drive, it seems everything is fine with it...) When he saw the error that I saw on two different machines myself, I told him about the size difference in disk management on Windows 7/XP, hoping he would check it out himself and restore my confidence by being able to explain why that is. Watching him navigate through the menus, I couldn't help but wonder "What is he doing in the device manager?". He seemed very confident in his skills (and not that appreciative of what I had to say - typically overconfident "IT professional", I suppose...), so I didn't want to start explaining to him that it's nonsensical for him to try to see anything there. So I just let him move on and in the end, my data was on that drive he brought and by now it is also on a RAID 1 volume... Hence... I am very unsure about this company. They DID recover my data, they WERE accommodating but because of the many oddities described above, I am not sure how much of their recovery process was competence and how much luck. That is why I described all of this in so much detail, hoping it will be enough for anybody looking for a data recovery service that is decent, yet affordable, to make up his own mind.

If you or anyone you know are looking for a computer repair company with quick turnaround and a…read morewillingness to sympathize with your computer-related stress and drama, look no further! You have come to the right place! I am an indie filmmaker and I also work as a teacher with kids and teens helping them learn how to make films. In this case, I was tasked with doing some final edits of their work on behalf of the school, for their final screening. The unthinkable happened a week before the screening--my external 2 TB hard drive crashed. It's one thing for my project to go up in smoke, but the thought of letting down the kids was a nightmare..I had actual nightmares about what I was going to have to tell them. I also desperately wondered about which place to turn to. Most big computer repair places take far too long to quote and start the job and often outsource the repair work itself and are swamped, so you know they're not likely to get to repairing the drive the same day you drop it off--which was my only hope! Contemporary Computers quoted me immediately, gave me a fair price point and were honest in suggesting it might take awhile to recover the drive considering most of the files were .mov files, (large) and some prorez files (very large). They understood the urgency of the situation and started work immediately, and worked longer hours than they originally quoted but still held to the original quote. (How awesome is that?! Actual humanity!) With their skill and understanding of my plight, my entire drive was recovered in 3 days, allowing me to make my deadline. 3 days including drop off and pickup! They literally saved the show and the kids got to see their hard work and their families were not disappointed. I honestly believe if I hadn't approached Contemporary Computers and instead went with a big corporate repair chain that it wouldn't have been recovered in such a timely manner. So take note film industry editors, directors, producers and actors and everyone else! This is where you want to take your repair problems!!

EDIT: Since writing this review, I was contacted by the owner and sent an $84.75 cheque in the mail…read moreto make up for the service fee. After doing quite a bit of research on where I should go to have my laptop's hinges and backing fixed, I decided on this place - Contemporary Computers. It had great reviews, and they said my laptop would be ready in 3 days at the cost of no more than $130 when I called in. Unfortunately, I did not have a good experience here at all. Instead of having the laptop fixed in the three day period, it was "assessed" in two. What they had to assess when the top half of the laptop was clearly falling apart, I'm not sure, but I let it go. I spoke to them again, and they told me that the total cost would be $275. A lot higher than I had anticipated, but I'm a university student whose notes are all online, so I needed the laptop and said the price was fine. Again, I asked how long the repairs would take, now that they knew what had to be fixed. I was told 3 days. Once two business days were up, I called in to make sure that I would be able to pick up my laptop on time, since I hadn't heard from them yet. It was then that I was told that the parts they needed for the repairs wouldn't be in for another three days. That's when I got annoyed. Not only was I not able to download any notes, I had some work to do for an internship, which was due on the day the parts would come in. They did offer a loan laptop - at $9-$11 a day. However, the trip there and back would take an hour and a half and would cost me $6 in subway fees. As a student, I wasn't willing to pay any extra costs, especially when they gave me false information. Three days later, I get the call to come in and pick up my laptop. The total cost - $300 before taxes. When I went in to pick it up, I asked about the price mix-up, but all I got was a "Sorry that you were misquoted." I ended up paying $339 and waiting for 2 weeks. Definitely NOT what I was told the two times I called in. As for the laptop itself: It's not even the same backing. The broken one was flat and black. The new on is blue and bulky. When I did a check to make sure every thing was working (something I HIGHLY suggest doing before you leave the store) my webcam wasn't working. So they had to spend some time fixing that once my laptop was already supposed to be repaired. When I brought up all of these things, they didn't seem to think there were any problems with their service. The colour was just an aesthetic thing, the misquoting was unfortunate, and hey, they did offer me a loan laptop, but I didn't want it, so it was my own fault that I had to start my work from scratch. I was given a "consolation prize" for my patience; a stainless steel water bottle with their logo on it. To say the least, I will not be going back here, and the only suggestions about this place that I will give will be to avoid it.

Great service, helped me out with my laptop when the keyboard wasn't working. I highly recommend…read morethis place.

Excellent! Highly knowledgeable staff, fast service, reasonable price, friendly staff.read more

I came in with broken laptop.. explained my concerns - ie I didn't want to replace it unless…read moreabsolutely necessary. Raymond detected the problem early. He asked questions to understand my concerns and we determined what my priorities were. He offered some possible solutions (eg repair, or replace?..what would be involved and the cost and timing of each solution). He ordered the required part, contacted me to confirm the pricing, and finished the work within the time promised. Best customer service I've had in a long time.

Raymond's service was quick, friendly, and honest. He answered my questions and concerns, and I now…read morehave a better understanding as to how I may prevent damage to my laptop in the future.