DA5 to DA18, SE2 and SE28 · Bexley
Bexley data recovery. A weighbridge log and a student showreel, alike only in that each exists in one place.
DA5 is Bexley village, while Bexleyheath is DA6 and DA7, and locals are very particular about distinguishing between the two. Crayford posts as DARTFORD on a DA1 address and has been part of this borough since 1965, and Thamesmead spans SE2, SE28 and DA18 and falls within two boroughs at once; if you get that correct, then everything else will read accurately. North of the ridge running from Shooters Hill to Belvedere is a working riverside area which outsiders continually describe in the past tense: the energy-from-waste facility and Crossness treatment works at Lower Belvedere, and wharves in Erith and Slade Green whose river frontage is in use rather than preserved. It is not documentation that these sites hold, but evidence: permit monitoring data, weighbridge and tonnage figures, waste transfer notes and test certificates that cannot be re-keyed. South of the ridge is arterial suburbia along the A207 Watling Street, and most of it runs on vans: this is the London borough with the lowest active-travel share, 57 per cent of trips made by car or motorcycle against one per cent by bicycle, which is how a place consisting of yards, depots and motor factors is represented in a table. Estimating and job management packages, telematics, setting-out files and all the accounts on one machine in a portacabin come to us from there. Sidcup provides two additional categories of records: community and mental health caseload records under Oxleas at Queen Mary's, and at Rose Bruford and Bird College the rehearsal recordings, sound and lighting cue sheets and showreels that live on students' own laptops. Nothing is collected from any of these places, and there is no counter in either Bexley or anywhere else in London: get a quote first, over the telephone or with the form, then post your media tracked to the intake lab in Guildford or drop it off there personally, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5:30pm (no appointment needed). The first look is complimentary, and the figure is settled on paper prior to commencing any billable work.
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What the DA postbag holds.
Different fault? Try the finder →| What is going on | What arrives from here | Where that leaves you |
|---|---|---|
| A yard-office tower that is ticking and won't turn on | Weighbridge tickets and transfer documents stored on that computer disk | Off at the power socket, and no other attempt made |
| A site laptop that boots, and then shuts down | Setting-out files and this month's construction photos, unique to this disk | Get a price quote first, then remove four screws, send us the disk and keep the laptop |
| A four-bay NAS in a college office in Sidcup that has been amber for weeks | A term of rehearsal recordings with lighting cue sheets behind it | Remove power before another member disk fails |
| A camera card that the reader offers to reformat | One complete performance week recorded directly onto that camera card with no duplication | Do not allow any programs to write to this card. Get a quote first, then send us the camera card exactly as it came out. |
| Each file on the depot share had its name changed, with a note placed into each folder. | A ransomware incident occurred, and the backups were also mapped to the same machine. | Disconnect the network cable first; the ransomware page details what to do next. |
Packing it for the journey out.
Four questions from Bexley.
Does Bexley have somewhere to leave a drive?
No, and no borough in London has one. However, you can post it to us at our Guildford intake lab, or drop it off personally at the same location, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5:30pm (no appointment needed). Our imaging equipment, donor stock and the actual workbench are located within the same building, the Guildford intake lab, which is why it is usually the disk that travels rather than you. Get a quote first, by contacting us via telephone or completing our online quotation form, then track and insure your package. We typically open the parcel the following working morning and examine your media at no charge, and we also pay for the journey home.
Crayford post goes to DARTFORD. Is a DA1 address still Bexley?
Yes. Since 1965, Crayford has been part of the London Borough of Bexley; however, its post town remained DARTFORD. Hence a Crayford DA1 address is a Bexley one regardless of what the envelope may say. There is no BR district in Bexley and there is also no Bexley postcode area at all. Bexley village has the DA5 postcode district, while Bexleyheath has both DA6 and DA7, and Thamesmead spans three separate postcode districts: SE2, SE28 and DA18. Regardless of the above, this will have no effect on pricing, since we do not collect from any of these locations.
Permit monitoring data is on it. Is posting it safe?
Yes. Only the case reference travels with the job. Neither an operator's name nor a client's name is contained on the dockets or files. When we perform a recovery, we only access those areas of the disk required for said recovery and nothing else; no copies are sent to anyone outside of our laboratory; and once your drive has been back home for a full thirty days, the working copy we maintained is erased. The retention period is detailed in our privacy policy, and Easy Data Recovery Ltd holds ICO registration ZC173784.
A four-bay NAS in the yard office has one disk down. What now?
Please unplug the power cord from the wall socket before anything can attempt a rebuild, because when a rebuild is attempted onto a set that is already short a disk, a recoverable array can become unrecoverable. After doing so, get a quote first, either by telephone or using the online quote form. From a NAS, if possible remove the disks from their bays, marking each disk with its respective bay number; alternatively you can send the entire unit (case and disks included). Servers and RAID sets always come apart: remove the disks from the server or RAID set, label each disk with its respective bay number and post the disks bare.
Begin here if yours is doing the same thing.
Next door to Bexley, on the same terms
Post it from a DA address; work starts on arrival.
Unplug the power cord, and let it remain unplugged. Each subsequent time you reboot the drive, you increase the likelihood of losing additional sectors of your disk. Additionally, avoid running any repair utility programs against your failed disk; these programs write new data to the disk, and writing is the one thing your failing disk cannot afford. The initial examination is complimentary, you receive one figure in writing, and it is yours to accept or decline.