I brought my m1 MacBook Pro here after getting it pretty good and wet and shorting it out. They…read moregave me a grim outlook on repair, but they were able to repair it completely at a much better price than a lot of quotes I received. Unlike Apple they actually went in and micro soldered the motherboard both fixing and recovering all my data. So stoked, thank you!

I would recommend this company to everyone!…read more #rip to my laptop I called to see if they would be able to remove my SSD from my fried laptop, so that I can retrieve the data. Eric was so kind and said that if I could get there by 4PM, he could take care of it. The work only took a few minutes, but I was impressed with the level of customer service. I asked Eric some other general questions about CPU's and brands. He provided me with honest answers and extra information. I'm crossing my fingers that I won't have to use them for my new laptop any time soon, but they definitely have my business!

Dropped off an SD card that had deleted all of photos from a trip to Tokyo, RTS recovered almost…read moreall of my files within a day. Definitely hoping that I never have to experience that scare again but if I do I'll use RTS!

I am a traveling photographer. Are often time will create a traveling hard drive to carry with me…read moreto work on projects while I'm on the road. Well I was traveling in 2015 and my hard drive stopped responding. I was quoted prices up to $1,000 to recover the data. The price made me Shy Away. I gave RTS a call and working with Paul he quoted me a flat rate on a standard hard drive recovery which is consistent with the industry. However he said that you can also provide the service for flat rate that maybe do the job. I dropped my hard drive off to Paul 5 p.m. and I had it back the next day at 7 p.m. Paul communication was exceptional. I was really happy with the service. I'm ecstatic to have all those images back. Thank you RTS and thank you Paul!

I took my laptop to be repaired. They fixed it really quick. I had no issues. The price is right…read more Freddy was very professional. It's a great place to take your computer in Long Beach.

Fredy Millan of Community Tech is a life saver!!! I wholeheartedly recommend for your computer…read morerepair and salvaging needs. Fantastic service and wealth of knowledge.

I came to data recovery man with a 15+ year old external hard drive that had been sitting in a hot…read moreattic for years and had broken ports. I knew that somewhere there was a photo with me and Guillermo Ochoa and with it being the World Cup and his last game before retirement, I wanted to find it so bad! The device had all of my photos from my late teens and early 20's and I was worried they would not be salvageable. Wayne was so helpful and rushed the processing so I could get my photos on time. I was so happy that everything was recovered! I highly recommend them for data recovery services Here's the photo with Guillermo Ochoa from 2008!

Honest and accomadating. Quick to pick up calls, he stayed later than closing to help me out, and…read moredid not need to do the whole data recovery process to fix my hard drive, which usually costs 375, so he told me to just name a price. I gave him 150 and he only took a 100. Quick service, from when I called to when I got it fixed, he got it done in less than an hour. Thanks Wayne!

Very professional and knowledgeable!!! They did a great job recovering my data from a 15 year old…read moreSSD. Thank you

Would like to send a big Thank you to Alandata, Wayne & his team for an amazing work and knowledge…read moreto recover data from my broken iPhone. I was told by Apple Store and a Phone repair shop that my phone is dead and not accessible. I got lucky I found Wayne online and his shop, they were able to retrieve & recover what I was missing from my iPhone. You guys Rock !!!

This is around the corner from my house and what a blessing. We've been here a few times now and…read moreevery time and everyone we have served us has been amazing. They have always given us honest answers. They do both computers and phones here. Please come and support them.

Huge shoutout to Leo at CompuTech…read more I made a big mistake and needed some work done and that man saved me and repaired my device. Now taking into account the amazing work they do, their prices are even better. 10/10

This review is long overdue but I think of Vahan and Elen and the team so often and how they not…read moreonly saved my precious photos but were so kind, efficient and professional during my hard drive nightmare scenario... One week before xmas, I sat down to work and got a message and screen I'd never seen before - "no bootable devices found". I called my usual tech guys and they came over a few hours later but needed to take the drive to their shop. Of course, with the holidays, no one was working much and as much as I like my usual guys, I felt like I was getting the run-around and I wasn't getting any answers from them, they couldn't tell me what was wrong. I'm self-employed and do a ton of work over the holidays, so my anxiety and frustration increased hourly...I did get a new HD in the meantime, but I was very concerned about the data (and esp photos) on my failed HD. I found Five Star Data Recovery here on Yelp, I spoke to Elen and went to collect my failed HD from the other place and bring it to them. From the gate, I got updates every day or two and come to find out that it was the controller in my WD HD that had malfunctioned (Vahan is so wonderful in explaining the issues to a layperson!) and although there is a company that makes the little part to perform a "chip off" and therefore recover the data, there is not one yet for my make/model HD. However! As I still had my HD from previous to the one that failed, which had all of my pre-2020 photos on it (plus old docs, etc), Vahan was easily able to copy all of that over to a new external HD and I can't explain the relief and happiness that it brought me :-) I'm eager to come back when/if the little part for the chip off process becomes available for my failed HD, but in the meantime I'm just so happy to have my photos and eternally grateful to Vahan and team! Thank you all so much!!! :-) xoxo!

Highly recommended. Crashed an internal hard drive that had significant data on it that I had,…read moreirresponsibly, not backed up to any other sources. The damage I did to the drive required Five Star's clean-room service, and they quoted a flat rate to me in advance. The effort of recovering the data ended up being very challenging and took longer than any of us expected, but at the end Five Star was able to recover over 99% of the files--and I'm happy to say, the 1% of files were not important to me, so the 99% they recovered covered everything I needed. Despite that significant extra work, they invoiced me only for the original quoted amount. I'm happy with the results but also the professionalism. When I first reached out to Five Star, they got back to me at the start of the next business day and, after answering a few follow-up questions, I had a quote and scheduled to drop off my drive the same day. Vahan and Elen were particularly helpful and professional the entire way through. It was really a pleasure to work with them and I can't recommend Five Star enough!

Choose these folks for your data recovery needs! I had two WD (called Western Digital when they…read moredrives were made) HDDs that I needed data from. I was unable to recover data from them in different ways. Disc one was an external drive that would not power on. I tried removing it from its external enclosure and powering it from another, more different enclosure to no avail. The system was indeed down. Disc two was an internal drive that used to be my C drive- my boot drive. I removed it from an old computer after it stopped booting and put it into an external enclosure. Several different computers (Mac & PC) would recognize it sporadically, though none could access the data on it- error codes always came up. Before I removed it, from the old computer, I tried booting from an optical disc and other assorted methods, many other assorted methods... I believe I was very thorough in my efforts. I sent both in and received near 100% recovery. They said it was 100% from one and 99.9% from the other but I am unable to find that .1%. I got all of this for just barely above the $300 price in their name (each, not total). So for about $600 total (including new discs on which my recovered data was transferred and return shipping) I got this incredible service. The total price I paid for both discs at 300DDR is less than I was quoted at several other places for one disc. At each step they were great communicators, from their receipt of the discs to my receipt of the recovered data. I hope I never need their services again but should, I wouldn't hesitate to use them again. I highly recommend them.

they did what they said they would do. most of the files were recovered and it was done in a timely…read moremanner.