LE10 and M69 Junction 1 · Hinckley, Burbage and Wolvey
Data recovery for Hinckley. The test slot, the prototype and the weather cannot be booked again.
Junction 1 of the M69 is the town's front door, and the A5 running past it is the county line — one side of that road is Leicestershire and the other is not. What stands on those junctions is where the work comes from. MIRA Technology Park, an Enterprise Zone operated by HORIBA MIRA, holds on the borough council's own figures more than thirty-five global manufacturers, Tier 1s and specialist automotive firms, and their vehicle test logs, CAN bus captures, ADAS sensor and camera sets, hardware-in-the-loop runs, homologation evidence and CAE model libraries are the least reproducible material anyone in the county keeps. Hinckley Park puts 82 acres straight onto the junction, DPD's parcel hub among them, where a night of scan records is the only proof a consignment ever moved. Triumph has had its headquarters and main factory here since 1988, and the UK site keeps the R&D, the prototype builds and Factory Customs — one-off work with no second copy anywhere. Nothing is collected. It travels by tracked post, the examination costs nothing, and a written figure is settled before any chargeable step — £300 + VAT for one disk, £500 + VAT upwards for an array.
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The five we see most often out of LE10.
Not yours? Open the fault finder →| What is happening | What brings it in | What that means for you |
|---|---|---|
| A test-department array the machines cannot see | Vehicle logs, CAN bus captures and ADAS sets, held in one place | Cut the power, label the bays as they come out, post bare drives |
| The one machine in the prototype shop office | Bought with the bench it sits on, and left alone ever since | Post the disks; the chassis stays with your IT |
| A rugged external that lives in a site bag | Proving-ground runs and photographs, copied nowhere else | We see more of these than anything; leave it unplugged |
| A mirror holding the scan history, running on one disk | Its alert goes to a shared mailbox that nobody owns | Imaging comes first; nothing is rebuilt until it is done |
| Dropped on the dock, and it has clicked ever since | A machine wheeled round a workshop all week gets more knocks than you think | Do not try it again — the next power-up may be the last one |
How the drive gets to us, and what it costs.
The four questions we are asked most.
Is it only Hinckley itself, or the villages as well?
Hinckley, Burbage, Wolvey and Sharnford are all LE10 and all on one set of terms; Barwell and Earl Shilton are LE9 and treated no differently. Since we collect from nowhere, a unit on the junction and a workshop on a side street both post the drive tracked, get the first look free, and pay nothing for its journey home.
A rebuild that has not moved in hours — cut the power?
Straight away, not at the end of the shift. Finishing a rebuild means reading every sector on every disk left in the set, and it is that continuous load which pushes the next worn member over; break off half way and you are worse off than the fault left you. Take the power away, write on each disk the bay it sat in, and post them as bare drives. The exception is a NAS box, which comes to us whole. Any job holding several disks opens at £500 + VAT.
It may have to stand up as evidence later. What do we get back?
The disk you post is read and never written to. What every stage works against is a read-only image of it, and the drive itself goes home in exactly the state it arrived in. Before a chargeable step is taken, one fixed figure is settled in writing. You finish with the files on fresh media and an itemised account of what lifted clean and what would not — enough for an inspector, an auditor or a claim file.
How is a drive best packed for posting?
What damages a drive in transit is being able to move, so take that away first. Bag it antistatic where you can, then pack the box out until nothing shifts — the packaging it originally arrived in will do the job. Send it tracked. Insure the parcel against the data, not against what the drive cost, and let a printed shipping form ride inside with it. The posting page covers the rest; the journey back is paid by us.
Start here if the same thing is happening to yours.
Next door to Hinckley, on the same terms
Pack it well in Hinckley — the first look is free.
Switch it off and leave it off. Tell us what it was in the middle of — a test run, a night of scans, a build file half saved. No charge for the look. The figure that follows is written down, and no work starts until you say yes.