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Postal coverage · Portslade

Portslade data recovery. Two places with one name, one bench.

Portslade is two settlements sharing a name: the old village inland to the north, and Portslade-by-Sea along the water, which was Copperas Gap until it became an urban district in 1898. The seaward half holds the eastern basin of Shoreham Port and what the record calls the industrial centre of Brighton and Hove. Most of what we open comes from there.

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What comes off the Portslade estates.

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The problem as describedWhy it's a local regularFirst thing we do
A stock-control PC in a Basin Road North unitWarehousing runs on one machine and nobody's second copyPost the disk, not the tower
A CF card lifted out of a machine toolIndustrial media fails quietly and takes the settings with itBag it, box it, note the slot
A plant-hire firm's shared driveJob sheets, certificates and a photograph of every machine outLabel each disk by bay
The disk out of a yard's own recorderThe clip an insurer has asked the operator to produceSend the disk, name the system
A staff laptop from the academyPortslade Aldridge Community Academy runs on ordinary hardware, and ordinary hardware stopsSwitch it off, then post it
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 Portslade job runs.

BN41 is the awkward oneBN41 covers Portslade and Fishersgate, spans Adur and Brighton & Hove, and takes Brighton as its post town. Fishersgate station is the sharpest example of it: the platform stands in Adur, in West Sussex, while serving a city suburb.
Industrial media, not laptopsAlong the harbour arm the storage that fails is embedded rather than desktop — cards in machine tools, plant controllers, vehicle recorders. Different parts, different tooling, same fixed written quote.
No van, no call-outThere is no engineer on the road here and nothing is collected. The drive travels by tracked and insured post, or you leave it at Guildford, and the return postage is paid at our end.
The same terms on both sides of the lineDiagnosis is free, the written figure that follows is the figure, and on most jobs no fee arises at all. Files return on fresh media. Monday to Friday, 9am–5:30pm.

In a client’s own words.

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I run a local PC shop in Portslade and a client had a problem with a Buffalo LinkStation drive. We have used your data recovery service for several of our clients. 100% record so far in recovering data.

Yuri Findon · Portslade

Portslade questions, answered straight.

BN41 is half in Adur and half in the city. Does that change anything?

Not here. The postcode does straddle two district areas, and its post town is Brighton rather than Portslade, but the price and the route to the bench are identical from either side of that line.

What do I do with a controller card out of a machine?

Lift it out, put it in an antistatic bag inside a rigid box, and write down which machine and which slot it came from. Cards like that are read on Rusolut and PC-3000 tooling, not on a disk imager.

Can you read the disk out of our yard's own recorder?

Usually. Send the disk rather than the recorder, and say which system wrote it. A server or a RAID set comes in the same way, as bare disks labelled by bay, though an external in its own enclosure or a NAS can travel whole.

What does a Portslade job cost?

Nothing to look at it, and the quote is fixed and written before we open anything. A card or a stick is £250 and upwards, one drive £300, a recorder £400, multi-disk work £500 and upwards, with VAT added to each.

Portslade to Guildford, by 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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