New Forest District, SO41 · Lymington
Lymington data recovery. The branch line runs to Brockenhurst; the drive goes by post.
The town lies on the A337, the road running south from Cadnam via Lyndhurst. The railway branch line links Lymington Town and Lymington Pier to the South West Main Line at Brockenhurst. Those driving to Southampton continue to Cadnam, where the A31 meets the M27. The New Forest National Park Authority has its headquarters at the Town Hall on Avenue Road, and Wightlink operates the Yarmouth crossing from Undershore Road.
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What arrives here from SO41.
Not listed? Try the fault finder →| The complaint | Why it happens here | First step |
|---|---|---|
| A refit workshop's CAD machine on Bath Road | Drawings, cut files and a season of job pictures, all stored on one internal disk | Image the disk before booting it again |
| A marina office's berth-management PC | Bookings, invoices and gate records for hundreds of berth spaces, all stored on one tower | Priority while the office cannot invoice |
| A brokerage card that stopped mounting | You can take photos of yacht listings in a morning, and the card fills just as rapidly | Remove it and write nothing more to it |
| A Pennington firm's four-bay NAS with two disks down | The warning e-mail was sent to someone who left in March | Power it off; all four bays travel |
| A drive out of an unheated storage shed | Water condenses onto kit that has been stored in a cold workshop during the winter months | Treated as environmental damage from the moment it arrives |
How a Lymington job runs.
Four questions from Lymington.
Does Lymington cover mean Pennington and Buckland as well?
It covers the entire SO41 postcode area; all items are sent by tracked post to the intake laboratory at Guildford, or they may be dropped off there (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5:30pm, no appointment needed). Therefore, disks from Pennington, disks from Buckland and disks from Bath Road all enter the same queue and are treated identically. The address on the parcel changes nothing.
Is there anywhere in Lymington to hand a drive in?
There is no office here and no van. Get a quote first, by phone or with the form; once you receive it, you can decide which method of delivery suits you best. If you would prefer to deliver your item personally rather than post it, the intake laboratory at Guildford Business Park, GU2 8XG takes drop-offs Monday to Friday, 9am to 5:30pm, no appointment needed. Nearly everybody posts, and what we retrieve comes back on fresh media with the postage already paid.
A refit is booked to a handover date and the drawings disk has failed. Can that be moved up?
Tell us the date when you ring. We image priority jobs ahead of the queue and work through them in one sitting, rather than in between other jobs. As soon as the free diagnosis is complete, we will give you a straight timescale, and no money changes hands until the written quote has reached you.
A drive stood all winter in an unheated workshop. Is it worth sending?
It is, and send it exactly as it is. Do not attempt to warm it up, use a fan or try a hopeful power-up: a damp platter does most of its damage in the first few seconds it is asked to turn. Place the drive in a bag and note how long it was left in the cold, get a quote by phone or with the form, and post it that same day.
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Lymington gets a quote and posts it; the rest is ours.
Turn it off. Explain what went wrong. Get a free diagnosis before you make any commitments.