Data Recovery in Franklin, MA
Photos, contacts, and files recovered from damaged or non-booting phones and drives. When a device will not turn on, we work to recover what matters — photos, contacts, and files — from phones, drives, and memory cards. Recovery falls into two types: logical recovery pulls back accidentally deleted or corrupted files from a working drive, while physical recovery handles failed hardware — on phones the storage (NAND flash) is soldered to the board, so even a phone that will not power on may still hold intact, recoverable data on that chip. iFixPhones handles data recovery for customers across Franklin, MA and nearby towns, typically in under an hour.
Devices we cover: iPhone, Android, hard drives, SSDs, and memory cards.
Common data recovery problems we fix
- Phone will not turn on but holds irreplaceable photos
- Water-damaged device
- Accidentally deleted files
- Corrupted or failing hard drive
Call (857) 340-8381 for a quote, or visit us in store.
Data Recovery — questions
Can you get photos off a dead phone?
Frequently yes — even when the device cannot be repaired, the storage chip is often intact and recoverable.
What does data recovery cost?
It depends on the damage. We assess first and give you an in-store quote before doing any work.
Can you recover files I deleted by accident?
Often yes, if the drive still works and the space has not been overwritten — deleted files usually stay on the storage until new data takes their place, so stop using the device and bring it in quickly for the best chance.
My water-damaged phone is dead — are my photos gone?
Not necessarily. The storage chip frequently survives even when the phone does not, so we can often recover the data directly. Avoid repeatedly trying to power it on, which can short the board and risk the chip.
Is recovering an iPhone harder than an Android phone?
It can be. On iPhones the NAND storage is cryptographically paired to the logic board through the Secure Enclave, so the chip cannot simply be read on another board the way some Android storage can — recovery has to keep your original board working. That makes board-level repair to revive the phone the usual route, which is why a dead iPhone is worth bringing in rather than writing off.
Can you recover data from a failed SSD?
Often, but an SSD behaves nothing like a hard drive here. There are no moving parts to click as a warning, so a failing SSD usually goes from working to completely undetected with no notice — and most SSDs run a background command called TRIM that permanently wipes the blocks behind deleted files within minutes to keep the drive fast. That means a deleted file has a much shorter recovery window on an SSD than on a spinning hard drive, so if you lost something off an SSD, stop using the machine and bring it in right away rather than waiting.
My external hard drive is clicking and will not mount — can you recover it?
Often yes, but stop plugging it in now. A rhythmic click on a spinning hard drive means the read/write heads cannot find their position — usually failed heads or a seized motor — and every extra power-on can scrape the platters and turn a recoverable drive into a lost one. We first diagnose whether it is a head, motor, or board fault; the safest thing you can do is power it down and bring it in rather than repeatedly reconnecting it hoping it mounts one more time.