Welcome to Aberdeen Data Recovery, Scotland’s No.1 Seagate data recovery specialists, with over 25 years of experience in recovering data from failed, damaged or inaccessible Seagate hard drives. Whether your data loss is due to mechanical failure, logical corruption or electrical fault, our expert engineers are equipped with the tools and knowledge to safely retrieve your files.
If you’ve lost access to business data, photos, videos, project files or critical backups—we’re here to help.
💽 Seagate Drives We Recover
We recover data from all models and series of Seagate hard drives, including the most popular product lines:
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Barracuda Series (Barracuda, Barracuda Pro)
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FireCuda SSD and Hybrid Drives
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IronWolf and IronWolf Pro NAS Drives
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SkyHawk and SkyHawk AI (for CCTV and surveillance)
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Exos Enterprise Drives
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Backup Plus Portable Drives
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Expansion Portable and Desktop Drives
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One Touch and Ultra Touch Series
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Seagate Fast SSD and Ultra Slim
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Seagate Gaming Drives (for Xbox, PlayStation, and PC)
From portable USB drives to high-capacity RAID systems and enterprise storage arrays—if it carries the Seagate badge, we can recover the data.
🔌 Supported Interfaces & Systems
Aberdeen Data Recovery supports all Seagate interfaces and storage environments, including:
Interfaces:
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SATA, IDE (PATA), SAS, SCSI, PCIe, M.2, U.2, NVMe, eSATA
Operating Systems:
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Windows (NTFS, FAT32, exFAT)
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macOS (APFS, HFS+)
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Linux and Unix (EXT3, EXT4, XFS, Btrfs, UFS)
We also recover Seagate drives used in NAS, RAID, CCTV, servers, laptops, desktops, and encrypted devices.
🛠️ Top 20 Seagate Drive Failures & How We Fix Them
Our expert team resolves a wide range of Seagate-specific issues. Here are the most common problems and our recovery approach:
1. Mechanical Failure
Solution: Disassemble drive in cleanroom, replace heads or motor, then clone safely.
2. Bad Sectors
Solution: Use advanced imaging to skip unreadable sectors and preserve accessible data.
3. Firmware Corruption
Solution: Repair or reflash damaged firmware modules to restore access.
4. Logical File System Corruption
Solution: Rebuild damaged file tables, partitions, and folder structures.
5. PCB (Circuit Board) Failure
Solution: Replace and reprogram the drive’s circuit board for access.
6. Power Surge Damage
Solution: Repair electrical faults and clone recovered drive for data extraction.
7. Head Crash (Clicking Noises)
Solution: Replace head assembly in cleanroom and recover from disk image.
8. Platter Damage
Solution: Carefully extract readable data from undamaged platter zones.
9. Unresponsive Drive (No Power or Spinning)
Solution: Diagnose electrical/mechanical issue and access platters directly.
10. Drive Not Detected by BIOS/Windows
Solution: Use diagnostic tools to isolate the problem and image the drive externally.
11. SSD Controller Failure
Solution: Remove NAND chip and extract data using chip-readers.
12. NAND Wear (SSD Degradation)
Solution: ECC logic used to rebuild data from degraded NAND sectors.
13. Accidental Formatting
Solution: Reverse formatting and extract original data structure.
14. Deleted Files or Partitions
Solution: Deep forensic scan of unallocated space to recover deleted content.
15. Encrypted Drive Access Failure
Solution: Use valid credentials to decrypt and retrieve the data safely.
16. RAID Failure with Seagate Drives
Solution: Rebuild array manually; recover data from cloned disk images.
17. Corrupted Seagate Backup Software
Solution: Bypass software layer, access raw data and rebuild backup sets.
18. NAS Disk Failures (IronWolf/IronWolf Pro)
Solution: Clone all drives, rebuild volume virtually, and extract user files.
19. Firmware Lock or Drive Busy State
Solution: Access service area via terminal and unlock firmware commands.
20. Thermal Overheating Damage
Solution: Stabilise thermally compromised drives in a controlled lab environment before recovery.
💼 Why Choose Aberdeen Data Recovery?
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🧠 25+ Years of Experience with Seagate Drives
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🧪 Cleanroom Facilities for Safe Mechanical Repairs
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🔄 Advanced Imaging Tools for All Seagate Failures
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🔐 Confidential, GDPR-Compliant Data Handling
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💬 Free Diagnostic – No Data, No Fee
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⚡ Critical 48-Hour Recovery Service Available
We work with individuals, small businesses, IT support providers, government departments and corporations across the UK.
📞 Contact Us for Seagate Data Recovery UK
If your Seagate hard drive has stopped working, is no longer recognised, or you’ve accidentally lost data—don’t risk permanent loss. Trust Aberdeen Data Recovery to get your data back.
Aberdeen Data Recovery – Trusted across the UK for Seagate data recovery for over 25 years.