Lazarus Data Recovery

These guys are INCREDIBLE! If I could give them 6 STARS I would. I have this bad habit of not turning off my laptop/​backing up my data. As a college student, these two things are very crucial. I came in, and I was welcomed with open arms. I tell them whats up, how apple wanted to just wipe my hard drive and maybe then could they figure out what actually caused my hard drive to crash. I took it in about the 28^th of December (which in turn i expected my laptop to be given back not until after the new year) the next day William gives me a call and tells me whats going on with my laptop, he tells me he recovered x, y, & z which I was absolutely pleased about and gives me a quote in regards to how much the recovery was going to cost. I told them that the most ideal was to recover everything but if it wasn’t possible then i specified what was the most important, which would give me an option to pay less, since its less data. As he’s putting the data back into my computer, he gives me a call and apparently it crashes because there was something wrong with the RAM and that that was probably the sole reason of this whole problem. He calls me the next day and tells me its all ready to be picked up (Dec. 30^th) which was simply amazing, being during the holidays it gets hectic busy everywhere. They do know how to take care of their customers. Excellent customer service!
He saved me so much money versus what apple wanted to charge me for just wiping my hard drive, selling me a new one, and POSSIBLY finding out what went wrong. These guys are awesome, they keep you posted with whats going on with your laptop. I would recommend them to anyone! THANK YOU SO MUCH!
**Parking is really hard to find! Just a heads up.

I am a new mom and a couple months ago I dropped my phone in the toilet. I was so worried that I would loose all the pictures of my baby as i never back up my phone. Lesson learned. My husband found this place. He fixed my phone ASAP and was so nice and crazy generous about it! This review is long over due. Thank you so much for your help. It is greatly appreciated!

William is my go to buddy for all data recovery issues. I’ve been to this business twice for different occasions and I’m always pleased with the results. I’m usually on the difficult and delicate end of hard drive failures when I approach William but he still manages to perform an excellent job. William is highly skilled at this work and is very knowledgeable and friendly and it is rare to find this type of businesses around anywhere.
His rates are reasonable and he offers better prices that the official Seagate or WD to perform data recovery. I would go back again if I run into issues in the future and would recommend this place to others.

They gave me a great quote, worked on my problem right away, really helpful and nice.

We were travelling to San Fran for a couple of days and my iPhone crashed on the first day we got here. We went to apple and they said they could not do anything other than replacing to a new hand piece. We had pictures for our entire trip and some memorable clicks on the phone and were devastated to hear that we had lost them. I started searching for options on google and came across William’s number. He was very accommodating considering that it was a weekend and asked us to come in to see him. He looked at the phone and promised us that he would do all he could to restore the phone and he did just that. He worked on the phone all of the Sunday and we had all our contents back by evening. He did such a phenomenal job and at a fraction of the cost compared to other places that Mac recommended.
Thank you for being so lovely and helpful William :)

William saved my life, in addition to 600+ photos of a recent trip to South America that were corrupted due to a damaged SD card. I was SO upset thinking I had lost all of those memories and was about ready to give up before I googled «Data recovery service San Francisco» and found out about Lazarus. I called one morning, dropped off my card a few hours later, and picked a USB drive with my photos the next day. The pricing was reasonable, and William even worked it out with me to my great appreciation. He is a really nice guy and I could tell he actually cared about recovering my photos. All in all, I had an awesome experience with Lazarus. The service was quick and painless and I came out of the office very very very happy.

Free evaluation — they were very nice. they first took my harddrive to take a look at what they could recover, then called me with a file list.
It’s not the easiest location to find, but I had accidentally corrupted about 500 gigs of data from the last 10 years of my life by flipping between my PC/​Mac/​Not shutting things down correctly. something. Went to Lazarus, and though it wasn’t cheap, they were able to fix things quickly and at a lower price than what other places quoted me. $ 500 wasn’t cheap but it was worth it.
They also gave me the option of only recovering some of the files for a lower $ amount. I think it was $ 400 for what I ID’ed as my most important file (pictures!) and another $ 100 for the rest.

Lazarus data recovery were excellent. I’m embarrassed to say that I accidentally formatted a big SD card full of holiday videos before I had downloaded it. As soon as I emailed Lazarus, William got in touch and set expectations realistically about the costs involved, and the likelihood of recovery.
He charged $ 50 to assess the situation: I took the media down for him to run forensics, which took a couple of days, and deducted that fee from the end recovery cost. Dealing with him was a pleasure; he was great about sending me status reports about the recovery progress, and the net result was a near full recovery of my precious holiday videos, which are now safely up on Google Photos.

It took me a while to write this review. I went to Lazarus late 2014 to try to recover data from an apparent dead hard-​drive from my computer. They were able to recover effectively all the data over the course of a couple of days and were very responsive to questions and provided good customer service. The price was a bit high in my opinion, thus the 4 stars, but then again, the data was worth the cost. Back-​up, back-​up, back-​up!

I got charge more than $ 100 for my Hard Disk evaluation. Then, waited about 5 months (which seems to me too long for an evaluation) just to get a negative response yet I didn’t have a refund for the initial payment.
I understand that they want to get paid for the work included in the evaluation but as a customer it just doesn’t feel good to pay for nothing in return.

Great Service, these guys worked out great and were able to recover all my data.

If I could give 10 STARS, I would!
Having your computer crash is a stressful experience to start and if you are like me it was even more stressful because I had been inconsistent with my backups. I didn’t even know which external hard drive I had done backups because I had 3 separate ones from over the years from multiple computers.
I have 2 small kids (4, 1) and my brain hasn’t been up to par lately. :) and I had pictures and videos I hadn’t backed up for quite some time as well as business information i need for when i return to work. so now super super stressful situation, right?
And yet, the moment I called, my experience with William was NURTURING. He was so grounding and soothing making this whole experience as simple, easeful as possible. He even ran out to my car and met me there to pick up all my gear so i didn’t have to find parking and take the 2 small children out to get the gear for the drop off! He has children and offered so much empathy to me with everything that I was loving towards myself during this experience which could have been an experience where I could have been kicking myself for not being more organized etc.
I think you get my experience… Everything recovered. I was nurtured 100%. He even walked me through my next steps so I know how to be more organized with my data. I trust William 100% and I’m so grateful for him! And I’ve already referred a couple people to him and will continue to do so.

If you are reading this you are probably freaking out because you have a dead device of some sort and failed to back it up like you know you should have. (This was me a couple of days ago.)
Stop freaking out. Call Lazarus. If anyone can help you, I firmly believe it is these guys. They saved my baby’s photos!!!
My just-​over-​one-​year-​old, relatively pampered iPhone 5s died completely out of the blue and for no reason one evening. My husband is not exactly an IT guy but works in technology and he was able to research and find a way to trip it out of recovery mode and get it back to life without doing a restore (which would wipe all the data I had on there) and we figured it was just an iOS crash one-​off event and I went about my normal iPhone activity. I did try to back up the photo library that day but our external hard drive filled up during that backup (d’oh!) so we ordered a new hard drive and figured we had a few days at least to get the most recent photos off of the phone. Wrong!
That very night my iPhone died again, after functioning normally all day, this time with no spark of life and nothing we did could get it back. I spent ALL DAY Christmas Eve freaking out and frantically searching for some way to just pull the photos off the dead phone and tried EVERYTHING – not because I cared about the phone as much as the 2.5 MONTHS OF PICS AND VIDEOS of my baby girl that I had not backed up! I literally cried. Nothing we tried worked. The phone was a brick. I felt like the worst mom ever to lose those months of pictures and videos of my baby (half of her little life!!!) because I had been «too busy» to sync my phone or back up the pics (and don’t get me started on iCloud… I thought it was set up but NO… nothing there).
Apple told me «tough luck, your phone is dead, it is out of warranty so you need to buy a new one – you should have gotten AppleCare, and of course you should have been syncing your phone regularly.» Thanks guys.
I frantically searched on Unilocal for any spark of hope to exhaust all possibilities to save those photos of my baby girl, and THANK GOODNESS I found Lazarus. William returned my call right away (even on a holiday week) and patiently walked through the facts leading up to my phone bricking. He was super knowledgeable and though reassuring he gave me a realistic 40−70% chance of data recovery – all depending on whether the motherboard was beyond salvage or not, which we couldn’t tell without him doing diagnostics in person.
Well, after a day of working on it (and keeping me updated along the way), he got the photos and videos recovered for me!!! I didn’t lose 1000 photos of my baby’s early milestones, after all, thanks to Lazarus. And William also managed to get my phone back to functioning (not that I trust that flaky device any more, but it is great to have it back online).
This service is not cheap, but if you have precious data you need recovered, even on an iPhone, you can trust it to Lazarus. William will go above and beyond for you and he truly empathizes with his customers.
Stop freaking out – call Lazarus. Oh, and back up your data!

It’s hard to imagine a person like William exists in modern times. This guy is rare in that he genuinely cares first and foremost about helping people. Shocking, right? While many data recovery businesses prey on the vulnerable and tend to charge a minimum four figures, William is crazy under priced for what he does. He rushed the job and did it for a fraction of what it should have been and he recovered EVERYTHING! I love this guy and know that he would do just about anything for a person in need. Thank you again so much, man!
David

Amazing service from this company. This truly was an amazing experience. I came across these guys randomly and from the start worked with William. I had lost 10 years of personal data and when I saw a bad review or two, I explained my apprehension to William who took the time to explain. He also told me approximately how long he needed which was about 3 weeks. I asked him if he could keep me updated on the process as it unfolded and I had emails and phone calls multiple times a week during our 3 week process. At no point did I feel uncomfortable or worried and he sent me 6 forensic analyses that he obtained from my data. I have everything I lost when other companies told me they couldn’t get my data back. William, if you are ever in Vegas, reach out and I’ll throw you some tickets to The Smith Center. Cheers!

Absolutely brilliant service from these guys. William was the one who looked after me and he was of excellent service. They were able to retrieve the information I needed for a very reasonable price compared to other services out there. Couldn’t recommend them more. On top of that they’re super friendly, responsive and understanding to customers needs. And William is super cool too.
Thanks guys!
Patrick mccartan

The data recovery went about as smoothly as I could ever hope. Within one day my tech got back to me with good news that 90% of my crashed hard drive was recoverable. The only thing that I was not able to get back were files that I didn’t need. I was able to specify which files were most important to me and he targeted those first. I really enjoyed his customer service and I felt like I was treated very well. He ended up giving me a good deal because the data recovery was so easy. if only Apple had any technology to help me at the store. It seems so easy but I guess that’s why these guys are professionals

William and Tony are very skillful and awesome people. They helped me get my data back within 2 – 3 weeks. My hard drive was destroyed and very damage, but they saved my life and my company. My company was about to get shut down because we didnt have proof of evidence that we were a real life company and that we were not fake. It was a success and we showed people that we were real.
Without Lazarus Data Recovery, our company would not be here today. My partners would be gone and I would not have any customers.
I would recommend them because they are nice and respectful. Finally I would like to thank William and Tony for their hard work and respectfully talking with me through these horrible 3 weeks of pain and roughness. THANK YOU LAZARUS!

Working with Lazarus Data Recovery was a wonderful experience. Tony and William were simply a pleasure to deal with. Our company had a hard drive containing 450gb of data crash. As with most, this data was critical to save. I dropped off the drive late Monday and received the data + a new drive (that they were kind enough to purchase for me) on Thursday morning.
Throughout the process, both William and Tony called me to update the progress, both good and bad news. Feeling helpless, this was a wonderful case of customer service. Like most, I called the manufacturer for guidance and after speaking to 3 different departments, I received a 2.5 week lead time along with obnoxious costs associated with the data recovery. I simply couldn’t wait that long.
Using Unilocal,I trusted the reviews and immediately drove the drive to Lazarus.
It is important to come to grip with the fact that not all data can be saved. Place a value on the data you wish to save and then push forward with using Lazarus for your data recovery services. You won’t regret it.
Thank you Lazarus, Tony and William. I hope that I do not run into this again, but if I do, I’ll be a returning customer.
Kudos for a job well done!

If your hard drive crashes, this is the place to go! My 10 month old Dell work laptop crashed in mid November, of course with all my data on it. Luckily, I back up my hard drive every week, however, in this one situation, it was 2 – 3 weeks since my last backup and of course it decides to go in a forever sleep mode. I turned to Unilocal and these guys came up as the most reliable and reputable vendor. At first when I came to the location, I was a little shocked, but after the service I received, I have to say these guys are the best. I worked with William from day one and he’s been up front and detailed throughout the entire recovery. It did take a few months, but I’ll say this, they did a thorough job and kept me up to date weekly on the status. Now, I didn’t recover all the data, I would say 30% was restored. The reality is its not a guarantee and they do there best. The key with these guys is to let them know your urgency. If you need it quickly expect to pay, if you have time, then the prices are VERY reasonable. Overall, awesome service and very informative about what to and not to do.
Just a friendly tip: the most important thing you can do to avoid a crash, NEVER KEEP YOUR POWER SETTING FOR YOUR HARD DRIVE IN THE POWER SAVE OR SLEEP MODE. This one thing alone will make it extremely difficult to recover data from your drive. From what I was informed this will actually causes most crashes. Don’t worry about saving the power, unless your willing to lose your data.