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Lewes data recovery. From County Hall to Cliffe High Street.

Lewes keeps a great deal of paper for a town of 16,070 people at the 2021 census. East Sussex County Council works from County Hall on St Anne's Crescent, Sussex Police from Malling House, and the solicitors, the Crown Court and the brewery at 6 Cliffe High Street all hold records nobody could re-create. A stopped drive is usually full of exactly that.

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What Lewes sends to the bench.

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The problem as describedWhy it's a local regularFirst thing we do
A solicitor's matter file that won't openCourt-facing work concentrates here, and a disclosure bundle is rarely the only thing on the diskStop writing to it now
A records archive drive no longer listedStatutory retention periods outlast the hardware holding the filesImage, then index
A brewery till system after a power cutProduction and stock run on perfectly ordinary PCsPower off; the platters are usually fine
An auction house's photograph archiveIndependent traders photograph every lot, and the catalogue sits on one externalSend it before it degrades
A pub company's CCTV recorder overwritingDozens of licensed houses, one recorder eachPull the disk; power stays off
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.

Working a Lewes case.

County town, county recordsEast Sussex County Council works from County Hall here; Lewes District Council keeps only a public reception at 6 High Street, its offices having moved to Newhaven in 2023.
Brewing and pubsHarvey & Son has distributed from Lewes since 1794, was incorporated in 1928 and is still family-owned. Dozens of licensed houses mean tills, stock systems and payroll on ageing hardware.
The Bonfire tradeLewes Bonfire, run by seven societies, is the town's best-known tradition and a real trading event for its pubs and shops — and the tills carrying it are ordinary hardware.
How it reaches usTracked, insured post — there is no counter in Lewes. The diagnosis is free, the written quote is fixed, most jobs carry no fee, and the parcel home is ours.

In a client’s own words.

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I needed urgent help with an SD card after my camera got knocked into a stream during a photoshoot by an over-exuberant groom. It was tears all round — the bride had lost her wedding pictures and my rather expensive Canon had gone for a swim. I tried recovery software but it didn't really work, so I took the plunge and found a local expert. I'm so lucky I found Brighton Data Recovery, who restored pretty much everything to a USB stick. One happy bride — the groom is still in the doghouse. We all thank you!

Trina Pennybridge · Lewes

Asked in Lewes, answered here.

We're a Lewes business with a machine that won't start — what now?

Call and say what it runs and what it did. We'll tell you which parts to send, how to pack them, and whether the job warrants priority. The diagnosis costs nothing.

Our drive was damaged, not just worn out — still worth sending?

Usually, yes. Say plainly what happened to it, and we'll point you to the service page that covers that kind of damage and treat the disk accordingly when it arrives.

Can you read a RAID set out of a small server?

Yes. Send the disks bare, each labelled with its bay number, and leave the chassis where it is. Multi-disk work starts at £500 + VAT, quoted in writing before anything begins.

What should we do before posting it?

Stop using the drive. Don't run anything else on it, and leave the repair utilities alone. Power it down, write down what it did and when, and put the shipping form in the box.

Post it from Lewes and we start.

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

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