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Postal coverage · Hove

Data recovery in Hove. One postcode, and no argument about which council.

Hove is half of a city rather than a town of its own, and BN3 sits wholly inside Brighton & Hove — one council, one post town, nothing to work out. What fails here is what the place does: regulated office files, county cricket administration, Brighton & Hove City Council's systems at Hove Town Hall, and a great many people whose whole business lives on one drive.

Tracked post-in · free return Free diagnosis on arrival Fixed written quotes

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What arrives from Hove.

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The problem as describedWhy it's a local regularFirst thing we do
A claims workstation from the Legal & General officeGroup protection, pension risk transfer, long retention periodsSend the key, we image first
The 1st Central County Ground's ticketing driveSussex Cricket Limited owns the Eaton Road ground, played on since 1872Every disk, labelled by bay
A freelance editor's external, full of client workThe digital and media sector Wired Sussex speaks for runs on sole tradersTell us what matters most
A depot machine from Conway StreetScheduling and vehicle data that nobody thinks to printPost the disk, not the tower
Twenty years of photographs on one home NASGoldsmid and Wish are full of boxes with no second copySwitch it off before anything else
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.

How a Hove job runs.

BN3 is the easy oneBN3 lies wholly inside Brighton & Hove: one unitary council, one post town, no boundary to argue over. One street west, in Portslade, that stops being true.
A station that carries laptopsHove station recorded 2.029 million entries and exits in 2024/25, up from 1.805 million. Four trains an hour to Brighton, two to London Victoria — hardware ages at that rate too.
Regulated files, handled in orderClaims records, pension files and encrypted volumes carry retention rules. Imaging on the PC-3000 comes before anything is opened, and the written report says exactly what was read.
One price list for every postcodeFree diagnosis. No fee on most jobs. One fixed written quote before any work, fresh media for the files that come back, and return postage paid. Monday to Friday, 9am–5:30pm.

In a client’s own words.

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I have a fashion brand and the Macs in the office all started failing. Of course not everyone was using the Dropbox link and were only saving locally! I wasted loads of time removing the HDD and trying free online recovery software before conceding I needed a professional. Brighton Data Recovery managed to get 99% of the files back, including all the designs for the new season and the photoshoot images. Worth every penny — I heartily recommend them.

Ciaran · Hove

Hove questions, answered plainly.

Is there anywhere in Hove I can hand a drive in?

No. It comes to us by post, or you can leave it with us in person: Guildford Data Recovery is at Building 2, Ground Floor, on Guildford Business Park in Guildford, GU2 8XH.

My work laptop is BitLocker-encrypted. Does that stop you?

No, but send the recovery key with it. We image the encrypted volume first and open the copy rather than the original, which matters when the files are regulated.

The four-bay NAS in the spare room has stopped. What do I post?

Every disk, each one labelled with its bay number, or the whole unit in its enclosure — a NAS may travel whole. Do not let it try to repair itself first; that is where real damage happens.

How much is it, and at what point will I know?

Free diagnosis, then one fixed written quote. Cards and sticks are priced from £250, a single drive at £300, a recorder at £400, multi-disk sets from £500 — every figure plus VAT.

One parcel from Hove to the bench.

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

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