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Where we work · Amesbury, SP4

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

Wiltshire Council ranks Amesbury, which had 12,995 civil parish residents at the 2021 Census, eleventh of the sixteen main settlements in Wiltshire. No train stops in Amesbury. The dual carriageway A303 passes the town, Solstice Park sits alongside it with Home Bargains, TJ Morris and Travis Perkins as occupiers, and MOD Boscombe Down is located to the south-east of Amesbury.

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 DownPhotogrammetry, geophysics and GIS layers for one seasonImaged before anything else is tried
A distribution-park server that won't mount its volumeWarehousing and transportation systems allow a Solstice Park unit to continue operatingEvery disk comes, labelled by bay
A laptop from a visitor operation that holds ticketing and image filesEnglish Heritage sells and takes photos at Stonehenge all seasonCopy it while it still reads
A four-bay NAS in an office at High PostMany smaller businesses on the A345 only store data in a single boxSwitch it off; get a quote, then post the disks marked
A downland farm office PC that won't bootChalk farms here keep all of their records on just one computerLeave it off; get a quote, then post its drive
Sending your device to us: first, get a quote, by phone or with the form. After you have received the quote you will then send it to us at our secure intake laboratory based in Guildford via tracked post that is fully insured. Return postage is free, so you do not incur additional expense. Pack the shipping form alongside it. Alternatively, you are able to drop it off at the Guildford intake lab, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5:30pm, no appointment needed. A complete description of how to pack your device is located at the posting details link.

How an Amesbury job runs.

Project data nobody can redoFor many years Wessex Archaeology has run fieldwork at Amesbury Down. 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 neededOnce you have a quote, by phone or with the form, Amesbury's parcel is posted from a post office counter on a tracked label and logged the morning it arrives; or simply drop off your parcel at the Guildford intake laboratory, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5:30pm, no appointment needed. Use a sturdy box, pad all six sides, include the shipping form, and make sure there is no part of the parcel which could move during transit.
Civilian kit, and only civilian kitMOD Boscombe Down is a 300-hectare airbase run by QinetiQ for the Ministry of Defence. No service-issued material reaches this bench: drives taken from contractors' laptops and home PCs, and small-office disks, do.
The same figures from any postcodeFree initial diagnosis, followed by one fixed written quotation that does not change, and in most cases you only pay if we recover your data. Data retrieved from your failed device will be returned to you on new media, postage paid by us.

Amesbury's four commonest questions.

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

Not by an hour. There will be no trains involved anyway. A tracked parcel handed over at an SP4 counter arrives on the Guildford bench the next working morning, and the free diagnosis begins there. The A303 just outside of town carries lorries, not your drive.

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

First, get a quote, either by phone or using our quote form. Once you have your quote, please send it exactly as it is. Most survey grids, photogrammetry and GIS layers remain intact under a damaged file system, and a season on the chalk cannot be worked twice. What destroys such a drive is not the fault itself, but a repair pass or reformat attempted after the fault appeared.

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

Although a NAS may come complete, servers (and sets behind controllers) need to be stripped down and each individual disk numbered for the bay it was located in. Do not let anything rebuild first.

What does one Amesbury drive cost?

We offer free diagnosis. After that, a single drive is £300 + VAT, a recorder £400 + VAT, memory cards and memory sticks from £250 + VAT, and multi-disk work from £500 + VAT. You receive one fixed written quote before any work begins, and in most cases you only pay if we recover your data.

Quote first, then one Amesbury parcel; the work happens here.

Turn it off. Explain what went wrong. Get a free diagnosis before you make any commitments.

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