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Salt Lake City sits on the Wasatch Fault, deals with dry high-desert air and occasional fierce windstorms, and has a fast-growing tech workforce that lives on laptops. When a drive fails, there is no need to look for a local lab: ship it from any carrier drop-off with a free prepaid label and our engineers recover it in a cleanroom.

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What we recover for Salt Lake City

•Source code and product files on a MacBook belonging to an engineer at one of the area's software or tech companies
•A University of Utah researcher's lab data on an external drive that stopped mounting
•Ski, backcountry, or wildlife footage on a camera card or portable drive that was dropped or frozen in the mountains
•Family history scans and genealogy research files on an aging desktop drive

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Common causes of data loss around Salt Lake City

The Wasatch Fault runs along the east side of the Salt Lake Valley, and the magnitude 5.7 earthquake centered near Magna in March 2020 was a reminder that strong shaking is a real possibility here. A running hard drive that falls off a desk, or a tower that tips over, can suffer a head crash that scratches the platters. Secure tall computers and NAS units, keep external drives off shelf edges, and do not place important equipment where it can fall. If a drive is dropped while running and starts clicking, turn it off immediately.

The valley's dry air makes static shocks common, especially in winter, and downslope wind events along the Wasatch Front can topple trees and cut power across wide areas, as the September 2020 windstorm did. Winter inversions trap pollution in the valley for days, and fine particulates build up in computer fans. Use a UPS on desktops and NAS units so they can shut down cleanly in an outage, ground yourself before handling drives, and clean dust out of cases and vents at least once a year.

How Salt Lake City mail-in recovery works

We ship prepaid labels anywhere in Salt Lake City: Downtown, Sugar House, the Avenues, 9th and 9th, Liberty Wells, Rose Park and the University of Utah area.

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We email a prepaid label — send it from anywhere in Salt Lake City.

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Data recovery in Salt Lake City — common questions

My drive was running when an earthquake knocked it to the floor. Can it be recovered?+

Often, yes. A drop while the drive is spinning can make the heads strike the platters, which typically causes clicking or a drive that is no longer detected. The worst thing you can do is keep powering it on, because each attempt can scrape more of the surface. Turn it off, confirm your case online, and ship it with the free prepaid label so engineers can replace the heads in a cleanroom and image what remains.

My card from a cold-weather shoot in the mountains will not read. Is it ruined?+

Not necessarily. Let it warm up to room temperature slowly before trying it again, because condensation can form when cold electronics come indoors. If it still fails, stop retrying and do not format it when the camera or computer asks. Flash cards and SSDs can often be recovered by working directly with the memory chips.

Do I have to visit a location in Salt Lake City?+

No. ClearQuote is a mail-in service — there's no drop-off required. We email you a free prepaid shipping label, you send the device from anywhere in Salt Lake City, and we handle the recovery in our ISO-certified cleanroom.

How much does data recovery cost in Salt Lake City?+

One flat $1,200 for the consumer devices we handle — hard drives, SSDs, phones, and cards — quoted before you ship. There are no per-gigabyte fees and no diagnostic charge, and you pay $0 if we can't recover your data.

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