CV21–CV23 · east Warwickshire · Rugby
Data recovery for Rugby. Cement, power engineering, and the West Coast Main Line junction.
Rugby is a Warwickshire town in its own right: its own borough council, the CV21, CV22 and CV23 postcodes, about 78,000 people in the town and 114,400 across the borough. Much of what the town does ends up on a disk. The Cemex plant east of Rugby runs one of the largest cement kilns in the country, near 1.8 million tonnes a year, with control-room logs and laboratory QA records behind it. Heavy-electrical engineering has been here for more than a century — British Thomson-Houston, then AEI and GEC — and the power-conversion work that grew out of those benches still fills workstations and NAS boxes with test-cell data and CAD assemblies. Rugby School and the town's other independent and prep schools hold pupil records and bursary files on site; hauliers on the M6 and M1 keep their manifests on one server. When a drive stops, send it north to the bench in Manchester by tracked post; the look on arrival is free.
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What tends to fail around Rugby.
No match here? Run the triage →| What you see | Why we see it here | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| A test-cell NAS that has dropped a second disk | Drive-systems benches log to arrays built to survive one failure, not two | Halt the rebuild; post the whole box, or the disks with each one bay-marked |
| A plant control PC that will not boot after a shutdown | Cement and process lines write their logs and QA records to one local disk | Pull just the disk and send that one; leave the PC where it stands |
| A shared server locked overnight, a ransom note on the screen | Small engineering and haulage firms are steady targets for ransomware | Pull the network lead, leave the power off, and call before you pay |
| A school's records server down as term begins | Rugby's independent and prep schools keep pupil files and bursary records on site | Tell us the deadline; the bench is sequenced to it |
| A surveyor's external drive that has started to click | A busy commuter-town office often keeps one portable disk and no copy | Switch it off now — a clicking disk loses more with each restart |
How a Rugby job runs.
What Rugby callers ask.
Do you cover Rugby and the CV21 to CV23 postcodes?
Yes — Rugby town and the whole CV21, CV22 and CV23 area. We keep no counter for anyone to visit; a drive reaches the Manchester lab by insured, tracked courier. Its first look is free and carried out the day it arrives, and we cover the leg home, so distance adds nothing to what you pay.
Our engineering NAS has lost a second disk. Can it still be rebuilt?
Often, though stop before it worsens. Cut the power and leave the rebuild be — a controller grinding away at a tired disk is how a recoverable array gets destroyed. Send it in whole, or draw the disks and mark each one for its bay; every disk is imaged before a rebuild is attempted.
A control-room PC at the plant has stopped, and the only copy of its logs is on it. Now what?
Take just the disk out and send that; the machine itself can stay bolted where it stands. Plant and test PCs tend to run for years, lightly maintained, until the disk gives out — but the logs and QA records are usually still readable off an image.
Is there anywhere in Rugby to hand the drive in?
There is no office or counter in Rugby, so no. Send it to the Manchester lab tracked and insured, or, if you are passing, leave it there on a weekday. For anything bulky — a full server or a rack unit — call ahead and we will sort out how it travels.
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Post it from Rugby and we start the day it lands.
Keep it powered down and tell us how it happened. Nothing is agreed until the free diagnosis lands.