When recovering lost information is a priority, many users would rather find a data recovery specialist in their local area rather than resorting to a provider who may be half a continent away. For computer owners in California, there are many available data recovery services near Los Angeles.

Using a local data recovery service allows for quick turnaround and very personalized service. For example, if you are in the Los Angeles area, you might call American Data Recovery. This company offers services nationwide but has a data recovery location for the Los Angeles specific area, including a toll free number and an equipment pick up service. Some evaluations and repairs done by American Data Recovery can have a turnaround time as low as 72 hours. They offer solutions for data recovery in a wide variety of areas for the small single PC user up to and include complex multi-drive applications.

Another company which offers nationwide data recovery services but has multiple locations, making it convenient for the Los Angeles area is Disk Doctors. This company has twelve locations spread throughout the country. They also offer a toll free number, quick turnaround and a "No recovery, no charge" policy.

For a truly local data recovery in the Los Angeles area, you might want to investigate Media Recovery which is centrally located in Burbank.  Media Recovery has over thirty years of data recovery experience and offers a wide variety of services including pick up, inventory, and will sort and evaluate damaged media. Media Recovery will also perform data recovery for water and/or smoke damaged units. They also provide emergency backup for damaged media. Evaluation and repair for hard drives is also available. If necessary, degaussing and disposal of media which will not respond to data recovery is also an option from Media Recovery.

Independent Technology Service which is located in Chatsworth, California also represents an expedient location for  Los Angeles area data recovery. The data recovery success rate for Independent Technology Service is one of the highest in the industry. They also offer flat rate pricing and a toll free customer assistance number. Most projects are turned around in 48 hours. There are no evaluation or "clean room" fees, and as with Disk Doctors, Independent Technology Service has a "No recovery, no charge" policy. They also offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee on recovered data making them an excellent vendor to investigate for your data recovery needs.