ST5 and Keele · Newcastle-under-Lyme
Newcastle-under-Lyme data recovery. A borough in its own right, not part of Stoke.
Newcastle-under-Lyme is a borough of around 75,000 people, and a separate council from Stoke-on-Trent next door — it never took up the pottery trade, and voted against merging with the city in 1930 by 97.4 per cent. Its work today is manufacturing, retail and health, run from the town centre and the estates off the A500. Three miles out is Keele University, one of the largest campuses in the country at 625 acres, with about 13,525 students and a medical school opened in 2007; the Keele Science and Innovation Park beside it holds, by the university's own count, more than 60 companies and about a thousand staff, Michelin among them. All of it runs on data — lab readings, CAD, client and patient records, a thesis with no second copy — and much of it sits on one ST5 drive. When that drive stops, the parcel goes north up the M6 to our Manchester lab, insured and tracked. The first look is free.
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What fails around Newcastle-under-Lyme.
No match here? Run the triage →| What you see | Why we see it here | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| An instrument PC on the Keele science park that has died | Months of experimental readings, logged straight to the one machine | Switch it off and send it; mark the runs you cannot lose |
| A design-office array on an industrial estate, one disk gone | Two decades of CAD and drawings on a single set, no spare | Post the whole unit, or pull the disks and label each one for its bay |
| A Keele researcher's laptop, dead with the deadline close | The thesis and its dataset never left the one hard disk | Stop restarting it and tell us the submission date |
| A town-centre firm's PC frozen mid-conveyance | Client files and ledgers pile up on one accounts machine | Leave it exactly as it is; list the matters that are live |
| A veterinary practice whose records will not open | Appointments and animal histories held on one back-office server | Do not reinstall over it; ring before any repair is tried |
Four things Newcastle-under-Lyme should know.
Common questions from Newcastle-under-Lyme.
Do you cover Keele and the rest of the borough, or only the town?
The whole Newcastle-under-Lyme borough, Keele and the science park with it. Since it all travels as tracked post, a drive from the Keele campus is no further from an engineer than one off the High Street, and something sent midweek is usually looked at within a day.
Can research data and drawings off a dead machine be recovered?
Usually. Lab readings from the science park, a postgraduate's only thesis copy, CAD assemblies and years of production drawings all live on standard disks, and those are what we work on. Tell us which files the work stops without, and they come off first.
The lab has stopped work. How fast can you actually move?
Tell us at booking that the work has halted and the case is marked urgent. It is opened the day the parcel lands in Manchester, imaged read-only across that day, and you get a firm date the moment the diagnosis stands behind one. The bench runs Monday to Friday, 9am to 5:30pm.
Is there a counter in Newcastle-under-Lyme for dropping a drive off?
No — nothing is handed over in the town, because there is no counter here. The kit lives at the Manchester intake lab, a straight run north on the M6. Post the drive insured, or take it in yourself midweek; the free assessment and the parcel home both cost you nothing.
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Post it from Newcastle-under-Lyme; we start the day it lands.
Keep it powered down and tell us how it happened. Nothing is agreed until the free diagnosis lands.