Our Buffalo pricing starts at £249+vat for our standard recovery service. We offer Buffalo hard drive recovery services for any Buffalo interface including EXTERNAL, NAS, IDE, SATA, SCSI, SAS etc. We recover 95% of all Buffalo hard disk systems and have recovered from 1000's of Buffalo hard disk's over the last 10+ years. Call us on 0800 075 0720 for a free quote.

We offer three service options, which comprise the following:

Standard - £249 Express - 399 Critical - £599

We are currently doing a special until 31st December 2011. If you select our 'Standard Data Recovery Service' we will give you a free upgrade to our 'Express Data Recovery Service' which is a 24-48 hour data recovery service at no extra charge!

Our 'Standard Data Recovery Service' is a 2-4 day working day service, 'Express Data Recovery Service' is 1-2 working days and our 'Critical Data Recovery Service' is usually 24 hours. We recover 95% of all Buffalohard disk systems for our standard price of £249+vat providing the disk does not have a mechanical failure. The above pricing is based on a one disk system, if there is more than one disk then the pricing will revert to our raid pricing structure.

We have an office in both Belfast and London so disk's can be dropped off or sent into us via the postal or courier system. We believe we offer the quickest and best Buffalo Data Recovery Expertise in the UK and Ireland to recover from failed Buffalo systems. We have recovered from 1000's of Buffalo systems over the last 10+ years. Please call us on 0800 075 0720 to speak to one of our highly qualified engineers for an instant quote or request a quote using our online 'Request a Quote' form.

We specialise in recovering data from failed Buffalo NAS-Raid systems including Buffalo LinkStation Pro, Buffalo LinkStation Quad, Buffalo LinkStation Mini, Buffalo LinkStation Duo, Buffalo TeraStation Duo, Buffalo TeraStation Pro, Buffalo TeraStation ES, Buffalo TeraStation 3.

We have been recovering Data from all Buffalo systems going back the last 10+ years. Our expertise is 2nd to none and in 95% of Buffalo Data Recovery cases we recover all data. We backup our expertise with our No Fix No Fee service so if we do not recover your data we don't charge you.

We recover Buffalo systems from all types of operating systems including Windows 7, Windows Vista, XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows Dos, Apple OSX 10 Leopard, Apple OSX 10 Tiger, Apple OSX 10 Panther, Linux or Unix. So no matter what the file system is, whether its Apple HFS+, Windows NTFS, Linux Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, XFS or ZFS we can recover your data for you. Buffalo External drive systems also come preconfigured as Network Attached Storage devices (NAS) and means that they are setup in a multi disk Raid setup such as Raid 0, Raid 1 or Raid 5. We have recovered data from Buffalo NAS Raid systems for many of the top UK and Ireland companies throughtout the last 10+ years.

Buffalo systems have been extremely popular over the last few years due to their good name and robust technology. While very good hard disk drives, Buffalo , like all other systems, they do fail. A sudden failure of the Buffalo system normally means that the software firmware configuration or electronics has failed in most cases.

Recovery Process:

Depending on the type of Buffalo system, the data recovery process can take several paths depending on the Buffalo configuration of your system.

In all cases all hard disks sent in for recovery are diagnosed to establish cause of failure. We then go about resolving the hardware or software issue and get the drive to a state that we can perform a 100% image of the disk. We image all hard disks as standard during our recovery procedure. This ensures the intergity of the original hard disk.

We then work with the hard disk image to process the Buffalo file system and extract the data.

We recover Buffalo systems from all operating systems inclusing Apple Mac, Windows, Linux and Unix systems. So no matter whether its Apple HFS+, NTFS, Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, XFS or ZFS we can recover your data for you. If you are unsure what the file system configuration is we can also determine the configuration for you.

Buffalo NAS Raid Configuration:

Buffalo NAS External devices support several different data storage configurations, which provide the owner of the system with different data protection levels and different recovery chances if the Buffalo NAS (Network Attached Storage) system fails.

RAID 0: This is the default Buffalo NAS configuration for older Buffalo NAS system's. Data is distributed across the drives. This is the best-performing configuration with maximum data capacity. A single drive failure causes loss of all the data. This method is gradually getting replaced with other raid configurations but is still being used in older Buffalo NAS systems.

RAID 1: In this configuration two shared disks are mirrored. This configuration provides great speed but only half of the potential storage capacity. This configuration is rarely used on Buffalo NAS devices but we still see some Buffalo NAS systems with this configuration.

JBOD: In this configuration data on the Buffalo NAS System is spanned along all disks. This ensures full storage capacity and good performance. Single drive failure may cause all data loss. We also see this configuration on older Buffalo NAS devices.

RAID 5: This is now the most popular and the default for the latest Buffalo NAS systems. Data is distributed across the drives using backward parity rotation. This configuration is fast but space equal to one disk's capacity is lost. The Buffalo NAS system will continue to operate normally even after single drive failure.

Buffalo Hard drive systems support different interfaces. Some of the interfaces supported include: Buffalo PATA Drives, Buffalo SATA Drives, Buffalo Portable Drives, Buffalo Mobile Drives, Buffalo IDE Drives, Buffalo SATA Drives, Buffalo SATA II Drives, Buffalo SATA 2 Drives, Buffalo SATA III Drives, Buffalo SATA 3 Drives, Buffalo eSATA, Buffalo SAS Drives, Buffalo SCSI Drives, iSCSI, Buffalo ESDI Drives, Buffalo Fibre Channel Drives, Buffalo USB Drives, Buffalo Firewire Drives and Buffalo PCMCIA Drives.

Buffalo systems have been extremely popular over the last few years due to their good name and robust technology. While very good hard disk drives, Buffalo , like all other hard drives, they do fail. A sudden failure of the Buffalo system normally means that the software configuration or electronics has failed in most cases.

Buffalo hard disk devices are well-known for their factory firmware problems. Buffalo Hard Drives contain Factory Firmware which is stored on the disk platters in the so-called System (Service) Area of the hard disk. If one of the disk modules becomes corrupted the whole hard disk micro-operating system can't boot up, the drive cannot initialise correctly and thus stops working. If you attempt to boot up from such a Buffalo hard drive or read any data from it you would get "Disk boot failure. Insert system disk and press enter" or "Primary Master Hard Disk Fail" or "No operating system found" or "USB Device malfunctioned" error or "S.M.A.R.T. Capable But Command Failed" or some other BIOS error.

Currently there is no way to fix this type of firmware corruption at home. It is quite a complicated procedure and requires use of specialised expensive equipment and deep knowledge of hard drive design and data recovery technology.

Common Buffalo Error Messages:

1. Clicking / Ticking / Scratching / Grinding Sounds
2. Not spinning, Not powering on at all
3. Drive not working after Power Surge
4. Freezing or locking up the computer or buring smell from system
5. Not detected by computer's CMOS/BIOS
6. Water or Liquid spilled on Hard Disk
7. Accidental reformatting of partitions, Accidental Deletion of Data, Virus Problems
8. Hard disk is unable to be accessed ( Inaccessible drive or partition )
9. Unable to boot computer due to system getting dropped.
10. The disk is seen in Operating System but asking to be formatted
11. Front red light on system not displaying
12. Error reporting ' Primary Master disk failed, Press F1 to continue'

The most often requested Buffalo External Hard Drive systems sent into us for Data Recovery are below.
Click on your hard drive model from the table below, it is linked to specific data recovery information.

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