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DN18 and the south bank · Barton-upon-Humber

Data recovery, Barton-upon-Humber. It sits at the south end of the Humber Bridge, a £2 toll from Hull.

Barton-upon-Humber sits at the south end of the Humber Bridge, about 11,000 people at the 2011 count and closer to Hull than almost anywhere on this bank — the A15 runs straight over the water to Hessle, and the £2 car toll is the only thing in the way. Wren Kitchens is made here, and around it are the joinery and furniture workshops, the fabrication firms on the Humber bank and the hauliers who cross the bridge every day; the files that keep all of it moving — CAD drawings, cutting lists, the programs that run the saws, tachograph downloads — usually live on one disk with a backup nobody has checked. Add the professionals who live in Barton and work over the water in Hull, the ecologists and photographers out at Far Ings on the old clay pits, and the heritage people who hold the record of St Peter's, and nearly all of it is digital now. Send it in tracked; the first look is free.

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What comes off the south bank at Barton.

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What you seeWhy it comes to usWhat to try
A workshop NAS that has dropped offlineThe kitchen drawings, CNC programs and cutting lists are on itShut it down, note which bay each disk sat in, and post the drives
A haulier's office PC that will not bootTachograph downloads and the day's job records live on itThe data is ours to recover; the hardware is your IT's
A laptop that started clicking on the commute homeIt carries the Hull work back over the bridge, the only copy there isSwitch it off at the first click and post it as it is
A two-disk mirror that failed quietly months agoOne disk dropped out, the warning went unseen, now the other is failingWe copy both disks first, then rebuild the set from the images
An external drive of survey work from Far IngsA season of counts and long-lens photography, held nowhere elseDo not let it reformat; switch it off and send the drive
Sending it to us: send it to the intake lab by insured, tracked post, with a printed shipping form enclosed in the box. We cover the postage back. Packing it properly is covered on the sending page.

Four points that matter on the south bank.

Say so if it has sat somewhere dampLeft through the winter in a cold store-room or an unheated shop, a drive draws condensation, and the rust that creeps across the board is the real danger to the data — not the chill. Say where the unit has been kept. Lifting corrosion is careful bench work; running the drive again to see whether it still goes only deepens the harm.
No counter in Barton, and the lab is in LeedsNothing is taken in over a desk in Barton, nor anywhere in Hull; the bench is at the Leeds lab. From here the A15 drops south to the M180, and the M18 and M62 run west to it — a road with nothing to cross and nothing to pay, since the £2 bridge charge applies only heading north into Hull. Almost everyone posts the drive; the other option is to take it to the lab yourself midweek.
Your files are treated as your filesKitchen drawings, a haulier's manifests, an archaeology unit's finds records — every kind of it is treated as confidential the moment the box is opened. Mark the folders that count, and the recovered material is checked back against them before it returns; none of it goes anywhere but home to you.
A DN18 address pays the Hull priceIt costs no more to post from here than from anywhere else. The first look is free, you get a fixed figure in writing before we start, and if nothing can be recovered most jobs cost you nothing. The postage home is on us.

What Barton-upon-Humber asks us.

Which places around Barton-upon-Humber do you cover?

All of DN18, and the places around it — Barrow-upon-Humber, Goxhill and New Holland, out to the Wolds edge south of the town. Immingham and the rest of the south bank come in on the same terms. The parcel travels to Leeds, so where you post it from makes no difference to the job.

The workshop's design files were on the drive that failed. Can you get CAD and cutting work back?

Usually, yes. Your disk is only ever read, never written to — we copy it first and work from the image, and your drive comes home as it left. CAD drawings, cutting lists and the programs that run the saws fail the way any disk fails, and they come off the copy first if you tell us which jobs are live. A fixed price is agreed in writing before anything starts, and you get an itemised list at the end of exactly what came back.

A NAS started to rebuild and then stopped dead. Should I switch it off?

Yes — switch it off. A rebuild has to read every sector of the disks that are still good, and that is the strain that kills a tired one; a stalled rebuild often ends worse than the trouble you started with. Pull the power, write the bay number on each disk, and send only the bare disks. The empty box can stay where it is.

Can I bring a drive in to you in Barton-upon-Humber?

No. A drive cannot be handed over in Barton, and Hull keeps no public counter either. The one place to pass it across is the Leeds lab, on any weekday; short of that it comes to us by tracked, insured post. The drive does the travelling, not you, so the bridge toll never enters into it, and the free look and the return carriage stand whatever the return address.

What people read after this.

Lost photographs → SD, microSD and CF cards → External drives → The full list of towns →

From Barton-upon-Humber, seal the box and post it west to Leeds.

Leave it switched off. Tell us what happened. Nothing gets agreed before the free diagnosis has said what it is.

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