Barnsley sits squarely on the M1 between Leeds and Sheffield — a town of small businesses, distribution and a large residential base, where a single failed drive can take out the accounts, the customer list and the family photographs in one go.
Insured post from anywhere in Yorkshire, or bring it to our Leeds drop-off at The Pinnacle on Albion Street — the diagnostic costs nothing either way.
Barnsley to Leeds is roughly half an hour by road and a similar hop by rail, so hand-delivery is simple — and insured post is just as straightforward. The caseload is the everyday spread: laptops that will not boot, hard drives clicking after years of quiet service, SSDs that stopped being detected overnight, small-business NAS and server failures, and the photographs nobody backed up.
The terms are identical wherever the drive comes from. A free diagnostic first, a fixed written quote before any chargeable work, recovery in-house by our own engineers, and on most jobs no fee at all unless the data comes back.
Very often not. A machine that will not start frequently has a perfectly healthy drive behind a dead board or power fault — we take the drive out, image it, and return your files whether or not the laptop ever runs again.
A single hard drive is £300 + VAT for a standard recovery; cards and USB sticks are £250 + VAT. The diagnosis costs nothing, the figure is fixed in writing before any work, and on most jobs there is no fee if the data does not come back.
Not if the data matters. Repeated boot attempts and automatic repair on a machine with a failing drive can make the data harder to recover. Power it down and let us image the drive first — repair can come after the data is safe.