NN17 and NN18 · Corby
Data recovery for Corby. Tube is still made at Corby Works.
Corby is a manufacturing and distribution town of 62,341 people at the 2021 census — the civil parish figure — spread across NN17 and NN18 where the A43, the A6003 from Kettering and the A427 come together. Tata Steel still makes tube at Corby Works: about 250,000 tonnes a year of thin-wall welded tube from steel strip, for construction, lifting, excavating and energy. RS Group has distributed electronic and industrial parts from Birchington Road since 1984. The town grew on Scottish labour recruited from the 1930s onward, 18.9 per cent of residents were Scottish-born at the 2001 census, and an annual Highland Gathering still marks it. The drives that reach the bench belong to all of that: a maintenance PC that has sat in heat and swarf, a card of dated inspection photographs, a despatch NAS running a disk short. Switch it off, ring, and put it in the post tracked — the diagnosis on arrival is free.
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What NN17 and NN18 send us.
No page for your town? Try the fault-finder →| The problem | Why we see it locally | First move |
|---|---|---|
| A maintenance office PC that will not power up | Corby's mills and machine shops keep them in heat and swarf | Leave it switched off and send the disk alone |
| A card of dated lifting and NDT photographs reading as blank | Inspection work has to be done again, not typed again | Nothing else written to it — post the card as it stands |
| A four-bay NAS in a despatch office running on three disks | Nobody notices a short array while the files still open | Shut it down before the second goes |
| A RAID box holding a month of vehicle condition reports | Photographs and video keyed to a registration, archived off fast | Every disk out, numbered by its bay, all in one parcel |
| A sign maker's tower that starts, then stops again | Print and sign shops keep cutting files and accounts on one machine | Each restart costs you something — pull the plug and ring |
From an NN17 desk to the Oxford bench.
Neighbouring Corby.
The complete town list →Four things Corby asks first.
Is there a counter in Corby?
No, and that is on purpose. A single well-equipped bench beats a whole row of shop fronts, so Corby keeps no counter, runs no van and collects nothing. Post the media to us, tracked and insured; if you would rather not trust it to a courier, the Oxford intake lab takes weekday hand-ins at Oxford Data Recovery, John Eccles House, Science Park, Robert Robinson Ave, Littlemore, Oxford OX4 4GP. We pay for the leg home either way.
What counts as Corby for this?
Both postcodes, NN17 and NN18: the town centre, the industrial estates, Corby Works and the Rockingham site north of it. Kettering down the A6003 and Oundle out along the A427 have pages of their own. Every job arrives by post, so the postcode changes nothing about the price or the order of work.
Our inspection card now reads as blank. Is anything left on it?
Usually, yes. A card that suddenly shows empty has generally lost its file table and not its pictures, and dated inspection photographs have to be redone rather than retyped. Take it out of the camera or the reader, add nothing to it, and let it travel as it is. The band for a card is £250 + VAT.
Can you read the disk out of a warehouse recorder?
Yes. Switch the recorder off at the wall first, then send the disk from inside it; a DVR or an NVR falls in the £400 + VAT band whatever the make. Leaving it running is the real risk, because retention overwrites the oldest footage first and the day you want is usually the oldest thing on there.
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One parcel out of Corby, and a straight answer.
Power it down, tell us what went wrong, and let the free diagnosis land before you decide anything.