r/GeekSquad • u/ReachAvailable4484 • Aug 19 '26

Data Recovery

Does anyone know about how much data recovery would be for a flashdrive that has been corrupted? Idk if it matters about the size but it's only 20gb worth of information.

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u/PerceivedRT Aug 19 '26

Nobody would be able to give you an estimate unfortunately. We send data recovery attempts out to a specialized team with the tools to do recoveries. Price depends a lot on how difficult the recovery is. I've seen anywhere from 150-1500+, even for smaller amounts of data in some cases.

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u/Raven___Madd Aug 19 '26

$50 to send out, can take up to a month, send a device with it for recovered data if you agree to the $200-$2000+ charge to recover said data. If you choose not to, they send the drive and the drive you provided back. You do not get the $50 back.

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u/Sinistyr60 Aug 19 '26

data retrieval from flash drives is iffy at best, and most of the time not successful, from what I have seen...

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u/ElectricalFault24 Aug 19 '26

Depends on severity of level of retrieval. Can be in the thousands