Wakefield is fifteen minutes down the line — near enough that most people simply bring the drive in themselves. A district of small businesses, a large public sector, distribution along the M1 corridor, and a great many households whose entire photo history sits on one ageing laptop.
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.
Wakefield to Leeds is one of the shortest hops in the county — trains run constantly and take about fifteen minutes, and the M1 makes it an easy drive. Most people hand-deliver. The local caseload is the classic mix: laptops that will not boot, hard drives gone clicking, SSDs that have vanished from the BIOS, small-business NAS and server failures, and the memory cards and photographs that no one thought to back up.
Being close does not buy you a different service, only a shorter journey. Free diagnostic, fixed written quote, in-house recovery by our own engineers, no fee on most jobs unless the data comes back — the same for a drive walked in from Wakefield as for one posted from the coast.
The free diagnostic is not a while-you-wait job — it is a proper examination, and we normally have a written answer back to you within 24 to 48 hours of the device arriving. You are welcome to drop it off and go.
No — and this is the single most important thing on this page. Every power-on drags damaged heads across your data. Treat the clicks you have already heard as the whole budget, spent. Switch it off and bring it in as it is.
Yes, all of them, on identical terms — and each has its own page. Wherever in the district the drive starts, the price depends on the device and the fault, never the postcode.