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GU31 and GU32 · Petersfield

Data recovery in Petersfield. School terms, festival weeks, one drive at a time.

Petersfield's built-up area held 14,996 people at the 2021 Census. Two postcode districts cover it, GU31 and GU32, under East Hampshire District Council, Hampshire County Council and Petersfield Town Council. The station sits on the Portsmouth Direct Line; roads run west on the A272 and A31, south to the A27 and M27. Schools, Bedford Road's business park and the South Downs make most of the files.

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What Petersfield sends by parcel.

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The complaintWhy it happens hereFirst step
A school server that will not mount its volumeAdmissions, pupil records and timetabling all sit behind one arrayAll the disks, marked by bay
A card from a festival production at BedalesA Shakespeare festival photographs itself for weeks on endStop shooting; send the card
A land-survey laptop from up on the DownsMapping and landscape work stacks up before anyone copies itImaged in full first, then read file by file
A small firm's external from Bedford RoadBusiness park units keep client work on a single diskLeave it powered down and send it in
The local paper's picture archive on a diskYears of town photography kept in one place onlyTell us the deadline and the queue follows 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 a Petersfield case is handled.

Two postcodes, one parcelGU31 reaches Buriton, Rogate and the Hartings; GU32 covers the town centre, Sheet, Steep and the Meons. Both post to the same bench, and both pay the same price for it.
Cards and camera workSchool productions, festival weeks and local photographers all write to flash cards. When a file stops opening, eject the card and switch the camera off, then let the reading happen from a copy.
School systems, term time or notA school runs admissions, pupil records and a photo library on hardware bought years apart. When one disk in that mix fails, send it with its bay order written on, and rebuild nothing first.
Paperwork a school bursar can processFree diagnosis, then one fixed written quote. No fee on most jobs. Where a drive has to be opened, 50% is paid up front, and what comes back arrives on fresh media with the postage paid.

Four questions Petersfield asks, answered plainly.

Can a drive be handed in at Petersfield, or must it be posted?

There is no counter here and nobody calls round for parcels. Either send it on a tracked service, or carry it in to the Guildford intake laboratory yourself, Mon–Fri 9am–5:30pm. The price is unchanged by which you pick.

Can a school get its records off a server that has stopped?

Usually. A server or RAID set travels as bare disks, each labelled with the bay it came out of, and a NAS unit can be sent whole. Send the drives rather than the machine, and leave any rebuild alone.

A camera card from a school production will not open — is that fixable?

Often. What fails first on a card is the index rather than the pictures, and an index can be rebuilt from what is still held on the flash. The outcome turns on nothing else being written to it.

Does a GU31 or GU32 address change the price?

No. Memory cards and sticks run from £250 + VAT, one drive on its own costs £300 + VAT, a recorder £400 + VAT, and multi-disk work from £500 + VAT. Diagnosis costs nothing, and the quote is written before any work.

Petersfield drives arrive as parcels, not visits.

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

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