Postal coverage · Littlehampton, BN17
Littlehampton data recovery. Harbour records, survey files and High Street drives.
Littlehampton is a town and civil parish on the eastern bank of the mouth of the River Arun, with around 32,000 residents at the 2021 census — a figure aggregated from smaller census areas, because ONS publishes none directly for parishes. What the harbour, the growers and the High Street keep on disk is what arrives at our bench.
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What Littlehampton posts to the bench.
Something else? Run the triage →| The problem as described | Why it's a local regular | First thing we do |
|---|---|---|
| A hydrographic survey drive, straight off the job | Bathymetry, sidescan and positioning logs, acquired once and not repeatable | Imaged before anything is read |
| The harbour office machine holding the movement records | Pilotage, tide and vessel movements a statutory authority has to be able to produce | We read it; your IT rebuilds |
| A grower's climate and dosing controller | The Arun growing strip works under glass, and the traceability record sits on the controller | The controller, not the glasshouse |
| A civils contractor's site laptop | CAD, GIS and site photographs from firms working on and around the river | Image first, always |
| A sweet-maker's order book, off the High Street | One machine carrying recipes, orders and six years of accounts | Switch it off, then post it |
What happens to a Littlehampton parcel.
What Littlehampton asks us first.
Most of the parish is BN17, but our postcode is BN16. Is that still covered?
It is. Littlehampton parish carries 858 postcodes, mostly BN17, with BN16 ones out towards Rustington and a single BN14 on the list. All of them reach the bench as one parcel, on identical terms and at the same figure.
A survey drive has stopped, and that data was acquired once. What do we do?
Cut the power and let it sit — a disk that is not spinning has nothing written to it. Post it in, and the whole surface is imaged before a single file gets opened. Bathymetry, sidescan and positioning logs come back from that more often than their owners expect.
Can you read a card the camera reports as corrupt?
Usually. A card reported corrupt normally has a damaged file structure sitting over intact pictures, and a formatted card keeps them until fresh shots are written to it. Eject it, put it aside, send it to us.
What actually goes in the box?
An external drive can travel in its own enclosure, and a NAS can come whole. Servers and RAID sets cannot: they come apart first, and every disk arrives bare with its bay number on the label. Send the drive, never the machine around it. No phones and no tablets.
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Power the device down, tell us what happened, and let the diagnosis be free before any decision has to be.