Seagate Barracuda 2.5-inch ST1000LM035 data recovery

Getting the files back from a Seagate Barracuda 2.5-inch (ST1000LM035), the 1 TB 2.5-inch laptop hard drive. Laptops, PlayStation and Xbox consoles, and portable USB drives.

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1 TB
2.5-inch laptop hard drive
SATA
5,400 rpm
2016 onwards

The clean-air cabinet used to open hard drives

What is it doing?

The noise or behaviour tells us a lot about what has failed. Tell us when you book.

What it is doing	What it usually means
Clicking after a drop	Head damage from the knock. Don’t keep trying it.
Beeping or buzzing	Usually stuck heads on the platter. Clean-air cabinet job.
Not detected	Board, firmware or the laptop’s own connector.
Very slow or freezing	Weak heads or bad sectors. Copy it now.
Deleted, formatted or reinstalled	Logical recovery, from £99 + VAT if the drive is healthy.

How we recover it

Free first consultation: we tell you what has failed and the price before any recovery work starts.
The drive is copied sector by sector first. Nothing is ever written to your original drive.
Clicking, buzzing and stuck drives are opened in our clean-air cabinet; donor parts are matched by model number, firmware and production details.
Your files come back on a new external drive, or copied to your new computer.
Everything is kept confidential. Our working copies are deleted once you confirm you have everything.

Before you send it

Don’t keep switching it on to see if it works: every start can make the damage worse.
Don’t open it, tap it or put it in the freezer.
Don’t run CHKDSK, Disk Utility First Aid or recovery software on a failing drive.
Don’t format it when Windows or the NAS asks you to.

Prices
Service	Price + VAT
Initial consultationFinds out whether the fault is physical or logical and the best way to recover it.	Free
Deleted files on a standard hard driveUp to two hours of work.	£99
Clean room diagnosticFor clicking, buzzing or silent hard drives.	£79
Physical recovery on a single driveLabour, plus a donor drive if one is needed.	£450
External drive for your recovered filesPrice follows the market at the time.	£150 (1TB) to £250 (4TB)

If a donor drive is needed we send you a link to buy it, or buy it for you at cost plus 30%, plus any import charges and VAT.

What will it cost?

Pick the closest match. The consultation is free, and the price is agreed before any recovery work starts.

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