We recover data from failed HDDs — when a drive clicks, ticks or is not detected, after a drop, water damage, formatting or PCB failure. Recovery in controlled conditions, head replacement and a PC-3000 workstation. 2.5" and 3.5" drives — Seagate, WD, Toshiba, HGST, Samsung. Warsaw laboratory in Praga-Południe and courier from all over Poland. Free diagnosis, VAT invoice, confidentiality clause on request.
Your drive not on the list? Call and ask — we recover data from any platter drive, including CCTV recorders and server drives.
A hard drive can fail in a handful of typical ways — from clicking heads, through no detection, to the after-effects of a drop or a format. Below are the most common symptoms and what usually lies behind them. We confirm the cause with a free diagnosis before quoting a price — and you pay only after your data has been successfully recovered.
Typical causes: damaged heads, a seized motor bearing, a stuck arm or heads stuck to the platters. This is a mechanical failure — do not power the drive up again; every restart scratches the platters.
Why a drive clicks and whether the data can be recovered.
Typical causes: damaged electronics (PCB), a firmware / service-area error, a damaged head or a burnt-out startup head. The drive spins, but the BIOS and system do not "recognise" it or report the wrong capacity.
We read the drive outside the operating system, on a PC-3000 workstation — bypassing the damaged firmware.
Typical causes: dropping a laptop or external drive damages the heads or shifts them off the ramp onto the platters. Symptoms: clicking, no detection, a visibly bent 2.5" drive casing.
We carry out head replacement in controlled conditions — with parts from a donor.
Typical causes: flooding, a burst pipe, damp in a cellar — corrosion of contacts and the PCB, moisture inside the drive's sealed chamber. It is essential not to dry out or power up the drive yourself.
We clean and dry the media, replace the electronics and read the platters.
Typical causes: mounting bad sectors, degradation of the platter surface, weakening heads. Symptoms: copying "hangs", the system takes a long time to start, files vanish, a RAW partition appears.
We make a sector-by-sector image of the drive on hardware resistant to bad sectors, then recover from the copy.
Typical causes: an accidental format, a deleted partition, deleted photos and documents, "the drive asks to be formatted". Success depends on whether new data has overwritten the old — stop using the drive.
Media damage symptoms — when to bring it to a service centre.
Recognise a symptom? Disconnect the drive and book a free diagnosis — we will check it and quote a price before recovery.
Not every data loss looks the same. Before we quote for recovery, at the free diagnosis we establish which class of failure we are dealing with — because a logical file-system error is an entirely different process (and cost) than head replacement inside an opened drive.
The diagnosis first answers one question: is the drive damaged physically, or only logically?
Everything depends on that — the time, the method and the price. Logical failures we recover from a sector image without opening the drive. Electronics and firmware failures require work on a PC-3000 workstation. The hardest — mechanical — require opening the drive and replacing the heads in controlled conditions, with access to a laminar-flow clean room. Below we describe each class.
What happens: the drive is physically sound, but the system cannot see the files — after formatting, deleting a partition, a virus attack, with a RAW partition or "the drive asks to be formatted".
How we recover: we create a sector image of the drive, then reconstruct the file structure and extract the data from the copy — with no risk to the original.
What happens: a damaged controller board (PCB) after a power surge, short circuit or water damage — the drive does not spin, is not detected or "smells of burning".
How we recover: we repair or replace the PCB and transfer the original ROM chip (adaptation), so the drive regains access to its own operating parameters.
What happens: damaged service-area modules — the drive "hangs", does not become ready, reports zero or wrong capacity, freezes in a "busy" state.
How we recover: we enter technology mode on the PC-3000 workstation, repair the firmware modules and unlock access to the data area.
What happens: damaged or stuck heads, a seized motor, scratched platters — most often after a drop. The symptoms are ticking, clicking, beeping.
How we recover: we open the drive in controlled conditions, replace the heads or motor with parts from a matched donor and read the platters sector by sector.
We always confirm the failure class and the chances of recovery at a free diagnosis — only then do we quote a price. You pay only after your data has been successfully recovered.
Full transparency at every stage. The diagnosis is free, you learn the price before recovery, and you pay only after your data has been successfully recovered.
Call or order a 24h courier. Disconnect the drive and describe the symptoms — clicking, no detection, a drop, a format. Bring it to Praga-Południe or send it from anywhere in Poland.
Free of charge we establish the failure class — logical, electronics, firmware or mechanical — and assess the real chances of recovery. We read the drive on a PC-3000 workstation.
We give you a specific cost and a list of what can be recovered — with no hidden fees. You decide whether we go ahead. Backing out costs nothing.
We recover the data, show you a file list to verify and hand it over on new media. You pay only after a successful recovery. We issue a VAT invoice.
Data recovery is not magic — the chances depend on what happened to the drive and what was done to it after the failure. We would rather say so plainly than promise the impossible. A few things can make the situation irreversibly worse — and a few simple ones you can avoid.
And if the data cannot be recovered? It happens — with deeply scratched platters or repeated overwriting. We will tell you plainly at the diagnosis stage, before you pay anything. With us, payment is made only after a successful recovery — for a failed attempt we do not charge for the work itself.
HDD data recovery is not just plugging in a cable — it means professional equipment, experience with every class of failure and clear rules: an honest quote, confidentiality and payment only after a successful recovery.
We establish the failure class and the real chances of recovery — free of charge. You learn the price before the work starts, and if you back out you do not pay just for the check.
We settle up only after your data has been successfully recovered. For a failed attempt we do not charge for the work — the risk is on our side.
We read drives on a PC-3000 workstation (ACE Lab) — the same one used by data recovery laboratories. Sector imaging, firmware access and work outside the operating system.
We work in a zone cut off from the public network. On request we sign a confidentiality clause, and after handing over the data we irreversibly erase it from our media.
We issue VAT invoices. We serve companies, law firms, accounting offices and institutions — for urgent business cases we offer an express mode.
We handle the hardest failures — replacing heads and the motor from a matched donor, in controlled conditions, with access to a laminar-flow clean room.
We issue VAT invoices — CSE Poland Sp. z o.o., NIP 113-310-78-61. We serve individual customers and businesses. The free diagnosis applies to standard data recovery jobs.
An indicative price list by failure class. We give the exact price after a free diagnosis — and you pay only after your data has been successfully recovered.
The amounts shown are indicative — the cost depends on the drive capacity, the model and the degree of platter damage. The diagnosis is always Free, you learn the price before recovery, and you pay only after your data has been successfully recovered.
We have gathered answers to the questions we hear most often from people with a hard drive failure. Did not find your answer?
Call: +48 512 800 030Hard drive data recovery in Warsaw is handled by CSE Poland — an electronics service in Praga-Południe (Al. Stanów Zjednoczonych 72/13A, by Galeria Wiatraczna). We work on professional PC-3000 equipment, carry out head replacements and handle every class of failure. We accept drives in person and by courier from anywhere in Poland. Call: 512 800 030.
Ticking and clicking is a symptom of mechanical failure — most often damaged heads. The most important thing: do not power the drive up again, because every start scratches the platters and reduces the chances. Disconnect the drive and bring it to us — we open the media in controlled conditions, replace the heads with parts from a donor and read the platters. Read more in our guide on why a drive clicks and whether the data can be recovered.
The price depends on the failure class. As a guide: logical recovery (format, deleted files, bad sectors) from PLN 300, electronics damage from PLN 400, firmware damage from PLN 900, and a mechanical failure with head replacement PLN 1,000–4,500. The diagnosis and quote are free, and you pay only after a successful recovery. We give the exact price after the diagnosis — call: 512 800 030.
Yes, we recover data after an accidental format, a deleted partition and deleted files. Success depends on whether new data has overwritten the old — so stop using the drive straight away and do not save anything to it. The sooner it reaches us, the greater the chance of a full recovery.
No detection is usually electronics (PCB) or firmware damage. Do not try to repair the drive yourself or run free recovery software — you can make things worse. Disconnect the media and call: 512 800 030. We read such drives outside the operating system, on PC-3000 equipment, bypassing the damaged firmware.
Yes. After a drop the heads are most often damaged — we replace them and read the platters. After water damage we clean the corrosion off the media and replace the electronics. In both cases it is essential not to power up or dry out the drive yourself — bring it in exactly as it is.
Yes, we handle jobs from anywhere in Poland. You can order a DPD courier (PLN 20 one way, PLN 40 return) or send the drive to an InPost parcel locker (WAW47A). Pack the drive in bubble wrap and a rigid box. After recovery we return the data on new media. Order a courier online.
Yes. We work in a zone cut off from the public network, on request we sign a confidentiality clause, and after handing over the recovered data we irreversibly erase it from our media. CSE Poland Sp. z o.o. (NIP 113-310-78-61) issues VAT invoices — we serve companies, law firms, accounting offices and institutions.
Call or order a courier. The diagnosis and quote are free, and you pay only after your data has been successfully recovered. Come to Praga-Południe or send your drive from anywhere in Poland — 24h courier.
