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Where we work · Romsey

Data recovery in Romsey. Engineering benches, small practices, one shelf of photographs.

Romsey is home to a research facility called Roke Manor on Old Salisbury Lane, a hospital operated by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, and a high street filled with small practices. Drives fail the same way in all three. Before you send your drive, get a quote first, by phone or with the form, then post it or drop it off at the Guildford intake lab, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5:30pm, no appointment needed, and the diagnosis costs nothing.

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
An engineer's laptop that stopped bootingThe sensor and simulation work is stored on machines that are moved between desks and benchesThe disk normally comes through intact
A solicitor's mirrored pair in an office near the centre of townClient files and correspondence going back many years, all kept on two disksQuote first, then bare disks, each labelled by bay
A surgery office PC, after the electricity went offAppointment books and administrative data that were never copied anywhere elseElectronics go first; platters generally do not
A card out of a camera at a village showPictures taken once, stored together in one place and never printed.Take the card out and leave it out.
A student's portable hard drive just before a submission deadline.A term of coursework and a due date with no flexibility.Give us the date and we can order our queue accordingly.
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 a Romsey job runs.

Two lines, one junctionRomsey station is at the point where the Wessex Main Line meets the route coming in from Eastleigh. Great Western Railway carries passengers south-east along the route towards Southampton Central; South Western Railway goes off on the horseshoe via Chandler's Ford. Your parcel uses neither.
Engineering data, ordinary mediaRoke Manor Research works in communications, sensors, AI and data science, and around 828 people were working there as of 2022. With that many engineers in one town, you would expect to see an awful lot of overloaded external hard drives too.
Shops, surgeries and classroomsTest Valley Borough Council's 2018 business figures show retail at 15.2%, health at 13.3% and education at 10.6% of all jobs in Romsey. Each has records that cannot simply be reprinted.
The same terms at every SO51 addressFree diagnosis. One fixed written quote before we open anything. In most cases you only pay if we recover your data. The data is returned on new media, and postage for returning it is paid by us.

Romsey questions, answered plainly.

Nowhere in Romsey takes a drive in — so where does mine go?

To the bench at Guildford, by tracked post, or dropped off at the Guildford intake lab, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5:30pm. No appointment is required. Get a quote first, by phone or with the form. Then box it up, send it to us and we will look at it the morning it arrives. No address in Test Valley is any better placed than any other.

Can pictures come back off a card the camera calls corrupt?

Yes, most of the time. A format clears the index rather than the pictures themselves, and a broken file structure can be rebuilt using what is still on the card. Carrying on shooting is what ruins it.

A Romsey workshop machine will not start. What happens?

Ring first. Tell us what the symptom is and what the machine runs. Afterwards we agree on three things together: what travels, how it needs to be packed, and whether priority service would be worth the extra cost. Diagnosis does not cost anything regardless.

Does anyone come out to an address in Romsey?

No engineer comes out and no van is sent. A tracked parcel, or a drop-off at our Guildford intake laboratory (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5:30pm, no appointment needed), is steadier than either. When the job is a server, only its disks travel, each labelled with its bay number. For anything else that is too bulky to send, call us and we will work out with you what needs to go.

Romsey drives: a quote, then a parcel or a Guildford drop-off.

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

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