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Where we work · Amesbury, SP4

Data recovery in Amesbury. Fieldwork drives and distribution-park servers.

Amesbury's civil parish held 12,995 residents at the 2021 Census, and Wiltshire Council ranks it eleventh among the county's sixteen main settlements. There is no station here. The A303 passes on dual carriageway, Solstice Park sits alongside it with Home Bargains, TJ Morris and Travis Perkins as occupiers, and MOD Boscombe Down lies south-east of the town.

Tracked inbound post · return free No charge to diagnose on arrival Quotes fixed in writing

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What arrives from Amesbury.

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The complaintWhy it happens hereFirst step
A fieldwork drive off Amesbury DownGeophysics, photogrammetry and GIS layers from one seasonImaged before anything else is tried
A distribution-park server that won't mount its volumeWarehouse and transport systems keep a Solstice Park unit tradingEvery disk comes, labelled by bay
A visitor-operation laptop holding ticketing and picture filesEnglish Heritage sells and photographs at Stonehenge all seasonCopy it while it still reads
A four-bay NAS in a High Post officeSmall firms along the A345 run a single boxSwitch it off; post the disks marked
A downland farm office PC that won't bootChalk farms here keep their records on one machineLeave it off and post it
Posting it: send it to our secure intake lab by tracked, fully insured post — return postage is on us — with the shipping form packed alongside. The complete packing routine sits on the posting details.

How an Amesbury job runs.

Project data nobody can redoWessex Archaeology has run fieldwork at Amesbury Down for years. A season of survey on a field laptop cannot be worked twice, so those drives are imaged first and read from the copy.
No station, and none neededAmesbury's parcel leaves a post counter on a tracked label and is logged the morning it lands. Use a stiff box, pad all six sides, enclose the shipping form, and leave nothing loose enough to shift.
Civilian kit, and only civilian kitMOD Boscombe Down is a 300-hectare aerodrome operated by QinetiQ for the Ministry of Defence. Nothing service-issued reaches this bench: contractors' laptops, home machines and small-office disks do.
The same figures from any postcodeFree diagnosis, then one written figure that stays put, and most jobs carry no fee. Recovered files go back to you on fresh media, postage paid at our end.

Amesbury's four commonest questions.

Amesbury has no station. Does that hold a job up?

Not by an hour. Nothing about this travels by rail anyway. A tracked parcel handed over at an SP4 counter reaches the Guildford bench the next working morning, and the free diagnosis begins there. The A303 outside town carries lorries, not your drive.

A fieldwork drive with geophysics and site photography won't mount.

Send it as it stands. Survey grids, photogrammetry and GIS layers generally sit intact beneath a damaged file system, and a season on the chalk cannot be worked twice. What ruins such a drive is a repair pass or a reformat attempted after the fault appeared.

Our warehouse box has dropped two disks. Post the whole unit?

A NAS may come whole. A server, or a set behind a controller, should be stripped down and each disk numbered for the bay it occupied. Let nothing rebuild first.

What does one Amesbury drive cost?

Diagnosis is free. After that one drive is £300 + VAT, a recorder £400 + VAT, memory cards and sticks from £250 + VAT, and multi-disk work from £500 + VAT. One fixed written quote comes first, and most jobs carry no fee.

One Amesbury parcel; the work happens here.

Switch it off, describe what went wrong, and take a free diagnosis before you commit to anything.

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