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Louth data recovery. The subsidy claim is due; the farm office PC will not start.
Louth is a Lincolnshire market town of 17,382 people (2021), set where the Wolds drop down to the Marsh, and roughly seven in ten of its businesses are independently owned. That mix decides what reaches us. Farm offices out on the Wolds and the Marsh keep subsidy claims, field and spray records, yield maps and herd books, usually on one PC and a single external drive that one person understands. Growers and packers on Eastgate hold the traceability, grading and temperature records a supermarket audit expects to see. Add the auctioneers at the Livestock Centre — the last cattle market in Lincolnshire — the land agents and agricultural solicitors with tenancy papers going back decades, the independent shops keeping the books on one machine, and the photographers working weddings at St James' and portraits in Hubbard's Hills, and almost every job of it now lives on a single disk. Send it to us insured; the first look is free.
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What arrives from Louth and the farms.
Nothing similar? Go to the triage →| What you see | Why it comes to us | What to try |
|---|---|---|
| A Wolds farm-office PC that will not boot | The subsidy claim, the field and spray records and the herd book are all on it | Leave it powered down, and tell us when the claim or inspection is due |
| A land agent's server, down after a power cut | Tenancy agreements and title plans going back decades, all on the one box | The data is ours to sort; leave the box itself to your IT |
| A CCTV recorder on a yard that has stopped saving | The disk records over itself week on week and in the end gives out | Take the disk out, leave the recorder be, and send just the disk — labelled by bay if there are several |
| A packhouse office PC that has stood in the cold and damp | Grading and traceability records, temperature logs, and condensation working at the board | Any drying or cleaning is bench work here, not a job for the sink |
| A one-person shop whose laptop gives out at VAT time | The books and the till are on that machine, with no IT to fall back on | Log it with the deadline, and stop opening it |
Four things worth knowing before you post.
What Louth asks us.
Do you cover the villages out on the Wolds and the Marsh?
Yes. The Wolds to the west and the Marsh to the east come in with the town. Because the parcel does the travelling, a farm above Hubbard's Hills reaches the bench on the same terms as a shop on Eastgate, and a drive put in the post on a weekday is usually with us the next morning.
Can you get back a subsidy claim and the field records?
Usually, yes. A Basic Payment claim, spray and fertiliser records, field data, yield maps and the herd book tend to live on one office machine, and that machine fails like any other — heat, age, a board that quietly stops. Tell us which of them an inspection or a claim deadline turns on, and those are the first files we pull from a read-only copy.
The packhouse audit is due and the records are on a drive that has died. Can you help?
Often. Traceability, batch and grading records, temperature logs and the supermarket audit file are what an audit asks you to produce, and they usually sit on one machine in the office. Say which folder the audit needs, and we work only from a copy so nothing on the original is touched.
Is there anywhere in Louth to drop a drive off?
No — there is no counter in Louth, and none in Hull. The lab is in Leeds, so either post the drive there, insured and tracked, or drop it in during the week. Looking at it is free, and the parcel home is paid by us.
What people read after this.
From Louth, it travels as a parcel and comes home as your files.
Leave it switched off. Tell us what happened. Nothing gets agreed before the free diagnosis has said what it is.