Business Data Recovery — Servers, Workstations & Shared Drives

    Short answer

    Servers, workstations, NAS boxes and shared drives with priority intake, an NDA on request, and invoicing your bookkeeper can file. Nothing is shipped out of Houston without your approval. $50 same-day evaluation and a fixed quote before recovery.

    When a business drive fails, the meter is running. Payroll files, job data, customer records, years of email. We run a priority intake for business cases: same-day $50 evaluation, a fixed quote you can put on an invoice or PO, and a signed confidentiality agreement on request.

    • File servers, NAS and RAID arrays
    • Employee workstations and laptops
    • QuickBooks, Sage and accounting data
    • Priority same-day business intake
    • NDA and chain-of-custody documentation
    • Invoicing and PO-friendly billing

    Downtime changes the math

    A home user with a failed drive has an inconvenience. A business with a failed server has idle staff, missed invoicing, and clients asking questions. That is why business cases skip the queue: call, tell us what is down and how many people are affected, and the evaluation starts the same day. If the data is business-critical, say so — it determines whether we quote standard or emergency turnaround.

    Confidentiality is part of the service

    Business data means other people's information: customer records, HR files, financials. Every job is handled in-house by the same technician from intake to delivery. We sign your NDA, document chain of custody on request, and return or securely wipe destination media per your policy. Recovered data is never retained after you confirm delivery.

    Servers and RAID: do not rebuild

    The most expensive RAID recoveries start with a well-meaning rebuild. If a second drive drops or the array shows foreign configuration, stop. Do not force the rebuild, do not initialize, do not swap drives to test. Label the drives in order, power down, and call. We image every member drive first, reconstruct the array virtually, and never write to your originals.

    What a business intake looks like

    Call with the symptom, the media involved, and what the data is (accounting, CAD, databases, email). We evaluate same day for $50, quote a fixed price before work starts, and give you a realistic timeline. Standard cases run 24-72 hours; emergency service is available when the clock matters more than the budget. Invoicing and purchase orders are fine.

    After the recovery

    A recovery is the moment to fix the backup strategy, not just the drive. Through Atascocita IT and KingsPark IT we set up monitored backup, redundant storage, or a proper server refresh once your data is safe — so the next failure is a non-event.

    Urgent data loss? Do this first

    1. Stop using the device. Don't run recovery software, CHKDSK, or a RAID rebuild or re-initialize.
    2. Power down a drive that is clicking, beeping or overheating.
    3. RAID or NAS: label each disk with its bay order, and don't swap disks.
    4. Servers or QuickBooks: don't restore a backup over the original or reinstall anything.

    What Happens to Your Drive on Our Bench

    Five stages, from the moment you hand it over to the moment you get it back. Tap a stage to see what we do, how your original is protected and what you receive.

    Stage 1: Intake & audit

    • We log make, model, serial number and physical condition, plus anything already tried on the device.
    • You tell us which files matter most — QuickBooks, photos, case files, tax records — so the work is prioritised around them.
    • A clicking or wet drive is not powered up "to see if it comes on."
    Protection
    Nothing is powered on yet
    Timing
    At drop-off
    You receive
    Signed intake receipt with your device's serial number

    Verify Before You Pay: See the File Report First

    The fear is reasonable: pay hundreds of dollars and get back a folder of files that will not open, or a pile of system DLLs counted as “recovered.” So before any recovery invoice, you get the report below — every file, its size and whether it actually opens — and you check the ones that matter to you. Click around the sample.

    Recovered file report

    Sample report · illustrative data

    Verified
    7
    Partial
    1
    Unreadable
    1
    Usable data
    588 MB

    Company File.QBW

    \Accounting\Company File.QBW

    Size
    184 MB
    Last modified
    2026-09-18
    Integrity
    Verified
    What we checked
    Opened read-only in QuickBooks Desktop; customer list, invoices and register entries through the failure date are present.

    The Verify Before You Pay protocol

    1. 1Itemized file list

      When the recovery is done you get a list of every recovered file: folder, name, size, date and an integrity status. System files that ship with Windows or macOS are separated out, so the count reflects your data, not DLLs.

    2. 2You check what matters

      Name the files you care about most — the QuickBooks company file, a client folder, the wedding photos — and we open them in front of you, or send a few samples, before anything is invoiced.

    3. 3Honest status on every file

      Verified means it opens and checks out. Partial means it opens with damage you can see. Unreadable means the data under it was gone, and we list it anyway so nothing is hidden.

    4. 4Then the invoice

      The recovery price is fixed before work begins and the invoice only comes once you have seen the list. If no usable data is recovered, there is no recovery fee.

    Last updated · Reviewed by the Kingwood & Atascocita Data Recovery lab team · (281) 694-1425

    Frequently Asked Questions

    Do you offer emergency turnaround for businesses?

    Yes. Same-day emergency service is available for business-critical cases. Call and tell us what is down and how many people are affected.

    Can you work under an NDA?

    Yes. We sign your NDA or provide ours, document chain of custody on request, and never retain recovered data after delivery is confirmed.

    Do you take purchase orders or invoice?

    Yes. Business cases can be billed by invoice or PO. The $50 evaluation is still due at intake.

    Our RAID is degraded. Should we rebuild first?

    No. If a second drive dropped or the array shows errors, a rebuild can destroy the last clean copy. Power down and call before touching anything.

    What does business data recovery cost?

    Evaluation is a flat $50, same day. Single-drive cases start at $150; the final price, including for RAID and server work, is quoted after evaluation.

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