Data recovery,
with nothing
hidden.
Public pricing, a 2-minute estimate, and your file list before any payment. Hard drives, SSDs, RAID, NAS, smartphones — analyzed in an ISO 5 cleanroom, in France. You only pay if we succeed.
Your estimate in 2 minutes
Pick your device and the symptom: price, prognosis and the immediate action to take appear at once.
We work with every profile.
One service per device, one expertise per failure.
Each device type follows a dedicated intervention protocol in our ISO 5 cleanroom. Pick yours to see the method, pricing and success rate.
Hard drive
Clicking, drop, not detected, scratched platter. Head-stack transplant and firmware rebuild. From €300 excl. VAT.
SSD & NVMe
Dead controller, corrupt firmware, soldered MacBook SSD. Reverse FTL, NAND chip-off. From €400 excl. VAT.
RAID & NAS
Degraded array, failed rebuild, ransomware. Virtual reconstruction without touching the disks. From €550 excl. VAT.
A public, fixed price list, everywhere in France.
Where most labs only quote a price after receiving the device, Dafotec has published its flat fees since 2004 — payable only if we succeed.
No data – no fee. If we fail or you decline the quote, only €25 for reconditioning and return shipping is due — the recovery fee is never charged. Prices excl. VAT.
We show the price before we touch your device, and the list of your files before we ever charge for it.— Transparency as a method, since 2004
Why businesses choose us.
Six reasons that set a reference laboratory apart from a simple repair service.
22 years of expertise
120,000+ cases handled, documented know-how and a reference technical manual written by our president.
No data – no fee
The fee is charged only on success. If we fail, only €25 for return shipping is due.
Cleanroom
Devices are opened in a particle-controlled environment, essential to any mechanical intervention.
Your files before payment
You approve the full list of recoverable files before paying anything.
Free diagnosis
Analysis and a detailed technical report within 24h of receipt, at no cost and no commitment.
36 drop-off points
Drop-off near you, secure shipping or on-site pickup for businesses.
From intake to return, in four steps.
Drop-off or pickup
36 points in France or on-site pickup, with nothing to pay upfront. International shipping welcome.
Free 24h diagnosis
Failure analysis in our ISO 5 cleanroom and a detailed technical report, at no cost.
Quote + VeriFiles list
A firm quote and the list of recoverable files. You approve before any payment.
Encrypted return
Data returned on a new encrypted device. Charged only if we succeed.
Average success rates across 120,000+ cases.
Real interventions, with the numbers.
Symptom, intervention, result — the technical detail few labs publish. Three representative cases among 120,000+ handled since 2004.
Dell RAID 5, 3 failed disks
Symptom: power surge; the PERC H730 controller flags 3 disks as "Foreign" and refuses to mount the array.
Intervention: forensic clone of each disk, virtual XOR parity reconstruction with no writes to the originals.
Result: 22 TB of accounting data recovered, business back up in under 48h.
Accounting firm (38 staff), LyonMacBook Pro M2, soldered T2 SSD
Symptom: stuck at the Apple logo after a macOS 14.4 update, recovery mode impossible.
Intervention: board extraction, Secure Enclave bypass via a proprietary interface, direct NAND read.
Result: 890 GB recovered — Lightroom photos, Final Cut projects, work documents.
Independent filmmaker, BordeauxSynology NAS, ransomware
Symptom: eCh0raix attack, files encrypted and 2 RAID member disks in error.
Intervention: clone of all 4 disks, SHR Btrfs volume rebuild, exploitation of snapshots predating the attack.
Result: 24 TB recovered via day-before snapshots. No ransom paid.
E-commerce SMB (12 staff), Lille4.9/5 across 797 reviews.
The best specialist in France. Price matched the quote, payment after seeing the data. All my SSD data recovered.M. Boutet — SSD failure (controller)
A huge thank you for recovering 100% of the data after water damage. Top-tier work, highly recommended.René Lefébure — hard drive, water damage
Fast, serious, attentive and supportive. The fear of losing my data was quickly put to rest.Célia Alie — mailed in from Guadeloupe
Seeing is understanding our expertise.
ISO 5 cleanroom, head-stack transplant, RAID reconstruction, VeriFiles check: video shows what no photo can prove. The player loads only on click, to keep the page fast.
ISO 5 cleanroom — Roubaix
Analysis under a laminar-flow hood
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Beyond the service: understand data recovery.
Our expertise is documented and public. The Guide explains the method device by device; the Manual goes deeper into device anatomy, methods and prevention. Every page links back to the matching service.
Data recovery guide
Methodologies, tools and success rates by device: HDD, SSD, smartphone, RAID/NAS, USB, memory cards. For IT teams, forensic analysts and demanding individuals.
Open the Guide →Data Recovery — the manual
73 pages, May 2026 edition, by Mhessan Kouassi. Physical foundations, diagnosis, methods, special cases, the 3-2-1-1-0 backup rule. Every figure sourced.
Open the Manual →Institutions, research, industry, public service.
More than 80% of our clients come through word of mouth. References cited with permission.
Founder of the laboratory and author of the reference technical manual (73 pages, 2026 edition). 22 years of expertise and over 120,000 cases handled in an ISO 5 cleanroom — from mechanical hard-drive failure to post-ransomware RAID reconstruction. Every method Dafotec publishes comes from these interventions, sourced and verifiable.
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Clicking drive, unreachable NAS, SSD not detected?
Every amateur repair attempt lowers your odds. Power the device off and send it to our lab for a free diagnosis within 24h.