SP9 · Tidworth and Ludgershall
Data recovery for Tidworth. The family photographs, after several moves.
Tidworth parish counted 10,525 residents at the 2021 Census, Ludgershall 5,390. Tidworth is a post town in its own right, and of the SP9 postcodes roughly 230 sit in Wiltshire and 43 across the boundary in Test Valley. There is no railway station in either place, so everything travels by road to the A303.
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What Tidworth posts.
Not listed? Try the fault finder →| The complaint | Why it happens here | First step |
|---|---|---|
| A family external carried through three postings | Households here move house every two or three years | Send the drive, not the computer |
| A memory card that stopped being readable | Cards get filled, then read once too often | Eject it and leave it alone |
| A home PC that will not start at all | One machine holds the album and the paperwork both | Copy it while it still reads |
| A small trader's laptop with the diary on it | Childcare, removals, vehicle work: one PC, no second copy | Ring before you try anything else |
| A facilities contractor's NAS with a disk out | Asset, scheduling and estate records sit on one box | Power it down; the unit travels whole |
A Tidworth job, start to finish.
Tidworth, four plain answers.
No station here. How does a drive reach you?
By post, the same as everything else in SP9. Ludgershall's station shut in 1961 and the Tidworth branch stopped taking public traffic in 1963, so a counter in the town and a tracked label are what you use. It is logged and diagnosed free the morning it arrives.
Our photographs have moved house with every posting.
That is the commonest job out of Tidworth, and the drive is nearly always the only copy left. Do not plug it in again to see whether it is behaving: each attempt writes something to it. Say which years matter most and the reading is ordered around them.
Can you take service-issued equipment from the garrison?
No. Anything issued by the Department stays inside the Department. What arrives at this bench is civilian: home machines, family externals, small-business laptops and contractors' own kit.
Is one small drive worth your time?
It is a job like any other. Diagnosis costs nothing, the written quote reaches you before a single step of work, most jobs end with no fee, and what comes back arrives on fresh media with the return postage already paid.
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A Tidworth parcel goes; nobody has to travel.
Switch it off, describe what went wrong, and take a free diagnosis before you commit to anything.