M180 corridor · Scunthorpe
Data recovery, Scunthorpe. Decades of drawings on one server, no copy anywhere else.
Scunthorpe had 81,286 people at the 2021 census, the third most populous place in Lincolnshire after Lincoln and Grimsby, sitting a mile east of the Trent. The steelworks remains the town's defining employer, and around it are the firms that supply it: fabricators, machinists, NDT and maintenance contractors, stockholders, hauliers. Co-op Wholesale is headquartered here with one of its ambient distribution centres, and Wren Kitchens has one of its three factories in the town. The work follows that pattern - CAD and CNC files, inspection records, a warehouse system, tachograph downloads, a farm office on the Isle of Axholme, a practice server, an external drive of photographs. The look costs nothing, and the price is fixed in writing first.
An engineer will take the details
0800 6890668
Five jobs out of the town.
Nothing similar? Go to the triage →| What you see | Why it comes to us | What to try |
|---|---|---|
| An engineering PC with the CAD and CNC files on it | Drawings built up over years that nobody is going to redraw | Say if it is commercially sensitive when you book it |
| A GP practice server that will not finish starting up | Patient records for the whole list, held on one box | Do not let anyone reinstall Windows on it. Ring first. |
| A four-disk array that stopped during a rebuild | It runs the warehouse system and holds the year's accounts | Turn it off. Write the bay on each disk, then post them. |
| A farm office drive with the subsidy claims on it | Spray records and yield data going back years | Stop writing to it and post it as it is |
| A yard recorder that no longer sees its own disk | Surveillance drives write constantly and fail quietly | Pull the disk from the recorder and post it untouched |
What to do before it is posted.
What one customer wrote.
All eight, in their words →Many thanks to Hull Data Recovery and your data recovery engineers on the recent recovery of the HP RAID-5 data belonging to our client.
Eddie Gent · GrimsbyFour questions we are asked here.
You have no office in Scunthorpe. Does that matter?
No. There is no counter anywhere. Imaging kit, donor parts and the bench all sit at the Leeds lab, and splitting them between shops would only make each one worse. Post it tracked, or drive it: M180 west, M18 north, M62. The toll is only on the Hull road.
Our drawings are commercially sensitive. Is that a problem?
No. Devices are logged against a case number, never the company's name. Only the files the recovery needs get opened, nothing is passed to anyone else, and the working copies are wiped with written confirmation to you.
A repair shop told us the drive was finished. Is it?
Often it is not. Getting a computer working again and reading a disk that has stopped answering are separate trades on separate kit. Drives reach us most weeks after someone has written them off, and plenty of them still read once they are on the right bench.
Is it dearer because we are in Scunthorpe?
No. Nothing is charged to look at it. One fixed figure goes to you in writing before a drive is opened, and you can turn it down. Most work runs no recovery, no fee, and return postage is included wherever the parcel started.
What people read after this.
Post it from Scunthorpe. You get a straight answer.
Leave it switched off. Tell us what happened. Nothing gets agreed before the free diagnosis has said what it is.