Up the Aire valley, Keighley mixes engineering and manufacturing with a large residential base — and both keep more than they realise on a single drive that has been running quietly for years.
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.
Keighley to Leeds is around fifty minutes by rail through the Aire valley, or a straightforward drive — and insured post reaches us next day. The local caseload runs from engineering RAID array arrays and small-manufacturer NAS boxes through to household laptops, clicking hard drives and the photographs that matter most.
Free diagnostic, fixed quote in writing, in-house recovery by our own engineers, and no fee on most jobs unless the data comes back — identical terms whether the drive travels down the valley by hand or arrives in the post.
Age is rarely the obstacle. We routinely recover drives that have been running for a decade or more — what matters is the fault, not the year. And older drives are often mechanically simpler to work on.
Please don’t. Opening a drive outside a laminar-flow environment lets dust onto the platters, and dust at 7,200 rpm does real damage. It is one of the few ways to turn a recoverable drive into an unrecoverable one.
Yes — tracked and insured, immobilised in padding so nothing rattles. It will be with us the next morning, and the diagnostic is free either way.