NG22, NG23 and NG24 · Newark-on-Trent
Data recovery for Newark-on-Trent. Six fairs a year, every lot photographed, all on one card and one laptop.
The Newark International Antiques and Collectors Fair has been held every two months since 1985 and is described as Europe's largest antiques outlet. Thousands of dealers photograph and catalogue stock six times a year in one Nottinghamshire town, and for many of them those photographs are the business itself rather than a record of it: stock photos, inventory databases, provenance notes and valuation shots, all stored on one laptop with a single portable drive behind it. The heavier end of the town has the same habit. British Sugar has worked the A1 side since 1921, turning 1.6 million tonnes of beet into 235,000 tonnes of sugar, with around 700 growers behind it and every grower an account with a paper trail. Greencore's operation here (the business that was Laurens Patisseries and then Bakkavor) employs over a thousand. Currys' distribution centre runs to 1,400 staff at peak. NSK's bearing works, the old Ransome & Marles, still makes things, though closure is planned for 2027. Behind them are farm offices across the Trent valley and the Vale of Belvoir keeping herd, field and stewardship records on one outbuilding PC, and conveyancers working a district that straddles four councils' boundaries. Newark-on-Trent itself is in Nottinghamshire. There is no counter here: get a quote, post it tracked and insured to the intake lab in Manchester, receive a free examination, and see one written figure before any charges are incurred.
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Newark-on-Trent's usual work.
Not yours? Open the fault finder →| What is happening | What brings it in | What that means for you |
|---|---|---|
| A dealer's laptop that will not power on | Stock photos and the inventory database, with the fair just two weeks away | Leave it switched off and tell us your deadline |
| A process server that never came back on after a power cut | Laboratory results and campaign records going back years | The drives travel; your IT keeps the box |
| A yard recorder that has quietly given up writing | One disk you write over every week until it wears out | Take the disk out of the recorder, and go no further |
| A farm office PC that stops at the manufacturer's logo | Herd, field, stewardship and subsidy records, all stored on this one computer | Turn off the power, get a quote, and post the disk by itself |
| A commuter's home laptop that has begun clicking | Family photographs and work overflow, on the same disk | Do not use it any more. Every time you boot it up, you lose a bit more |
Getting it packed in Newark-on-Trent.
What Newark-on-Trent asks.
Do you cover NG22 and NG23 as well as the town itself?
All three areas: NG22, NG23 and NG24. That includes Newark-on-Trent and Balderton, out through Bilsthorpe, Tuxford, East Markham and Collingham, and down to Long Bennington and Flintham. On its eastern side NG23 spills over into Lincolnshire, but that alters nothing here. Because the drive does the travelling, a farm track and a unit on an industrial estate are the same distance from a bench. Something posted midweek will generally reach an engineer the next morning.
The fair is a fortnight away. Can this job be moved up?
Tell us it is urgent when you book and it goes straight into the system that way. The box is opened and imaged on the morning it arrives, ahead of everything else booked in for that day. When the diagnosis has told us enough, you are given a completion date and can hold us to it. We answer the phone Monday to Friday, 9am to 5:30pm.
A factory server has stopped. What must nobody do to it?
Two things must not happen: a rebuild, and a reinstall laid over the top. First cut the power. Write the bay number on each disk before it leaves the chassis, include the member that failed first, get a quote, and post the bare drives with the case left behind. If it is a NAS, send it the same way as long as the disks come out; if they don't, send us the whole NAS.
Where does a drive from Newark-on-Trent actually end up?
At the intake lab in Manchester, whose address is on the shipping form. Neither Newark-on-Trent nor Nottingham has a counter. The imagers, donor parts and the bench are all housed in the same building, which is why the drive moves and nobody else does. Once you have your quote, send it insured, or drop it off at the intake lab in Manchester (Peter House, Oxford Street, M1 5AN) Monday to Friday, 9am to 5:30pm, no appointment needed. We do not charge for the diagnosis, and we pay for the return trip.
If that is your fault, Newark-on-Trent, read on.
Next door to Newark-on-Trent, on the same terms
Send it from Newark-on-Trent; it is opened the morning it arrives.
Turn off the power at the wall socket and leave it off. Call us on 0115 8220606 or use our quote form. Describing how it behaved just before it stopped helps more than anything else. There is no charge for looking. A written figure follows, and your approval comes before any bill.