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Postal coverage · Arundel, BN18

Data recovery for Arundel. Under 3,500 people, and a great deal of archive.

Arundel is a town and civil parish of 3,498 people at the 2021 census, on figures aggregated from smaller census areas rather than published for parishes. It sits wholly inside the South Downs National Park, and its Catholic cathedral is the seat of the Bishop of Arundel and Brighton. A castle, a cathedral and a wetland centre hold more records between them than a town this small suggests.

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What Arundel sends the bench.

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The problem as describedWhy it's a local regularFirst thing we do
The castle's collections and ticketing machineA charitable company runs Arundel Castle, and charities keep records for a very long timeImage it, then read it
Event photography and video from a castle seasonA day's cards, still the only copy while the season is busyCard out of the body, nothing recorded after
Monitoring files from the wetland centreSpecies counts, camera and acoustic recordings, and survey sheets filled in by volunteersThe disk, not the whole laptop
A CAD workstation out at FordDrilling-rig drawings that outlive three generations of hardwareEach disk bare, bay marked
A planning consultant's drive before a committee dateDrawings and heritage statements written for the South Downs National Park AuthorityTell us the date on the first call
Sending it over: post your device tracked and fully insured to our secure intake lab — free return postage — with our shipping form in the box. Full packing drill on the contact details.

An Arundel case, start to finish.

Who actually runs the castleArundel Castle is operated by Arundel Castle Trustees Limited, company 01269400, a charitable company incorporated on 19 July 1976 and registered charity 271833. Not English Heritage, and not the National Trust.
The planning authority here is not the districtArundel lies wholly inside the South Downs National Park, and the South Downs National Park Authority has held statutory planning responsibility since 1 April 2011. Architects, surveyors and consultants here draw to that standard.
BN18 reaches further than the townPoling, Ford and Walberton carry BN18 addresses as well. Dando Drilling Limited is registered at Ford Airfield Industrial Estate — at Ford, just outside the town, a separate civil parish with an Arundel postcode on it.
The terms hereDiagnosis first, at no charge, and then a single written figure that holds. £300 + VAT covers one drive, and a recorder is £400 + VAT. Most jobs finish with no fee. Half of that figure is due before a drive is opened.

Four questions out of Arundel.

We are nowhere near Brighton or Guildford. Does that slow anything down?

Not the work itself. Arundel station sits on the Arun Valley line, which meets the West Coastway at Arundel Junction, and the A27 runs east from the town through Worthing and Shoreham. Your disk travels by post whichever way you would drive, and the figure does not change.

We are a registered charity. Will your paperwork satisfy our auditors?

It should. One written quote before anything begins, a VAT invoice afterwards, and a listing of the recovered files for you to approve before payment. Nothing is opened and nothing is billed until you have agreed the figure in writing.

An archive volume will not mount. Is that as bad as it sounds?

Rarely. A volume that will not mount usually has a damaged partition table or file system sitting over data that reads perfectly well. Let nothing try to repair it, because a repair writes to the disk. Post it in and the work happens on an image.

Can you read a card from a day's event photography?

Usually. Cards give out at the controller far more often than in the flash itself, and the frames are normally still there to be read on Rusolut and our other flash tooling. Take the card out of the body and record nothing further on it.

Arundel to Guildford, by tracked post.

Power the device down, tell us what happened, and let the diagnosis be free before any decision has to be.

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