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PO18, PO19, PO20 · Chichester

Chichester data recovery. A cathedral city on the A27, three postcodes wide.

Chichester is the county town of West Sussex and its only city, a parish of 29,407 at the 2021 Census, under Chichester District Council and West Sussex County Council. Trains run the West Coastway westward from the city to Southampton, and the A27 goes the same way, past Havant and Portsmouth to the M27. Three postcode districts cover it: PO18, PO19 and PO20.

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What Chichester sends to the bench.

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The complaintWhy it happens hereFirst step
A server in a Westhampnett unit that will not mountMotor manufacturing writes a record for every car it configuresDisks out, bay order marked
An imaging workstation disk that stoppedSt Richard's is run by University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation TrustRead from an image, not live
A survey laptop off Chichester HarbourThe Conservancy looks after Chichester Harbour National LandscapeSend it whole and the disk comes out here
A grower's office PC after the power dippedGrowers and nurseries run their hardware hardElectronics go first; the platters rarely do
A gallery's scanned catalogue on one externalYears of photography held in a single placeTell us the exhibition date and we work to 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.

The order a Chichester job runs in.

Three postcodes, one benchPO18 takes in Westhampnett, where Rolls-Royce Motor Cars builds, and Goodwood House, where the estate runs a hotel, golf, a farm shop and a brewery. PO19 is the city.
Cards, cameras and filmFestival production, exhibition catalogues and the cathedral's own photography all end up on flash. Take the card out at the first unreadable file, before anything else writes to it.
Arrays under a manufacturing floorBespoke coachbuilding at Westhampnett turns out CAD, configuration and photographic records for every car, and work like that lands on arrays. Every member disk travels, marked by bay.
Invoices a finance office will passA free diagnosis first, then one written quote that does not move. No fee on most jobs, 50% payable before a drive is opened, and the data returns on fresh media with postage paid.

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10 stars out of 5! Thank you so much to Tony and his Team for helping me with a USB stick data recovery. I copied some important files when abroad and the USB device was corrupted when I tried to plug it in at home. Luckily I found the Southampton Data Recovery Service team who got it working again with complete file recovery. Much appreciated.

Onyekachi Baise · Chichester

Chichester, answered without the sales talk.

Trains run from Chichester to Southampton. Should I bring the drive?

Posting it is simpler. There is no counter in the city and nobody calls for parcels, so a tracked parcel does the job. To hand it over instead, the intake laboratory at Guildford opens Mon–Fri 9am–5:30pm.

Can CAD and quality records come off an array that failed?

Usually. An array is read from images of its member disks, so no matching controller is needed. Take them out, mark each with its bay, send every one including those flagged failed, and start no rebuild.

Our practice in PO19 has a server that will not start. What happens next?

Ring first and describe the failure. That settles which disks travel, how they are labelled and what the packing needs to be, before anything is unplugged. Diagnosis is free once the parcel lands.

Is there an office in Chichester to visit?

No. A single drive is £300 + VAT, a recorder £400 + VAT, memory cards and sticks £250 + VAT upward, and multi-disk work £500 + VAT upward. Free diagnosis comes first, then one written quote.

A Chichester drive travels by parcel, not car.

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

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