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PO12 and PO13 · Gosport

Data recovery in Gosport. Mumby Road to Mill Lane, by post.

Gosport fills the peninsula west of Portsmouth, 81,952 people at the 2021 Census, reached by the A32 and by the ferry across to Portsmouth Harbour station. Premier Marinas runs Gosport Marina and the Endeavour Quay boatyard on Mumby Road, HMS Sultan holds the Defence School of Marine Engineering, and St Vincent College teaches on Mill Lane. Refit photography, CAD and coursework all post the same way.

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

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The complaintWhy it happens hereFirst step
A refit photographer's external, full of condition shotsEndeavour Quay work is recorded in pictures before anything is touchedSent whole in its enclosure
A marine engineer's laptop that stopped respondingDrawings, job sheets and survey notes kept on the local diskRecovery ours, rebuild yours
A four-bay NAS with two disks out of the arrayTrade offices along the A32 run one box eachPower it off, post the disks labelled
A student's coursework drive off Mill LaneSixth-form portfolios live on one external and nowhere elseAlways image first
An SD card that quit during a race weekendRace preparation at the marina is photographed all seasonStop shooting 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.

A Gosport case, step by step.

The ferry, the busway, the A32Gosport reaches Portsmouth Harbour station by ferry and Fareham by the Eclipse busway along Henry Cort Way, opened in April 2012. A drive needs none of them, because it goes by post.
Marine work makes picturesRefit, repair and race preparation are documented in photographs and CAD. That is a very large file estate on one external, and it is the commonest parcel out of PO12.
An engineering town, civilian workHMS Sultan holds the Defence School of Marine Engineering on 179 acres. What reaches the bench from a town like that is civilian kit: home machines, small-office servers, personal externals, never service-issue equipment.
One price list, one set of termsFree diagnosis, one fixed written quote before any work, no fee on most jobs. Your files return on fresh media and we cover the postage, whether the parcel leaves Mumby Road or a kitchen table in PO13.

Gosport asks; we answer straight.

Gosport has no station. Does that slow things?

Not by a minute. Nothing here moves by rail anyway. The parcel leaves a PO12 or PO13 address on a tracked service like any other, and the free diagnosis begins the morning it reaches the bench.

A boatyard drive with survey photographs will not mount — now what?

Send it whole if it is an external in its own enclosure. Refit photography and condition records usually sit intact under a damaged file system; what ruins them is a repair pass or a reformat run after the fault showed up.

A four-bay server has dropped two disks. Do we post the box?

Post the disks, not the box. A NAS can come as it stands, but a server or a rack of disks under a controller should be stripped down, each disk marked with the bay number it sat in. Let nothing rebuild before we hold images.

What does a drive from here cost to recover?

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

Send it; the bench takes it from there.

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

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