Where we reach · Barnstaple
Data recovery in Barnstaple. An hour from the motorway, a day from a diagnosis.
North Devon is a long way from most things — the A361 sees to that — but a postbox in Barnstaple is as close to our bench as any in Devon. Farm ledgers, shop tills, surf-trip photos, the odd laptop that went in the sea: it all goes the same way. Tracked and insured into the lab, a free diagnosis, and the postage home on us.
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What arrives from North Devon.
Not there? Head for the triage →| What's wrong | Why it's common locally | Step one |
|---|---|---|
| A farmhouse PC with the herd and field records | Farm software runs untouched for years, until the disk objects | Switch off; send the drive, or the whole tower |
| Generations of family photographs digitised onto one disk | Scanning the print boxes felt safe; single copies never are | One copy left means handle it gently |
| A Pannier Market trader's till and accounts machine | Independent shops here run till, stock and accounts on one ageing computer | We return the data; your IT rebuilds the till |
| A Seagate external that took a knock | Sam's review below tells that story from Barnstaple | Damaged rarely means lost; box it up |
| An office NAS that dropped off the network | Small firms' RAID boxes run degraded for months unnoticed | No rebuild attempts — post every disk |
What we do with a Barnstaple case.
In a client's own words.
See all the reviews →After discovering that the kitchen floor and my Seagate external hard drive don't like each other, I needed a local expert in HDD recovery. I found Exeter Data Recovery on google and they did a great job in salvaging my data, sending me everything on a USB stick with exactly the same files and folders I was missing. Could not have asked for more; Speedy service, great price, full file recovery.
Thomas Sidwell · BarnstapleClose to Barnstaple.
Our whole patch →Answers for Barnstaple, no padding.
Is there an office in Barnstaple?
No — and be wary of any lab claiming a counter in every town. Your device travels by tracked, insured post to our secure intake lab, gets its free diagnosis the day it lands, and comes home at our cost. The only thing distance alters is the courier's journey.
How long does post take from Barnstaple?
Next working day, as a rule, on any tracked service. Diagnosis starts the same morning your parcel arrives, and plenty of Barnstaple customers hold a written quote within 48 hours of posting it.
Can Barnstaple firms deal with you directly?
Constantly — drives come in from Barnstaple home offices, Pannier Market traders and the NAS boxes behind town-centre shops. If it's multi-drive kit or the business is stood down, phone first and the case is flagged priority from the off.
Is it safe to post a dead hard drive?
Yes, packed properly — drives come to us from all over Devon and Somerset by the thousand. Original box, generous padding, tracked and insured, shipping form in with the drive — the full routine is on the contact page.
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Skip the link-road run; a parcel does it better.
Turn it off, say what happened, and hold any decision until the free diagnosis is back.