The town that launched the Queens and sewed half the world’s Singers knows precision engineering when it sees it — and knows that when a precision machine fails, you stop cranking the handle. Same rule for drives: power off, then twenty minutes east.
Clydebank to Charing Cross is one of the gentler runs — the A814 along the river or the Clydeside Expressway, twenty minutes door to door, with Tay House at the city end of Bath Street. The North Clyde line runs from Clydebank and Singer stations straight into the city. Post works the same as everywhere: insured, tracked, padded, powered off.
Shipyard-town data has range: CAD archives and works records from the remaining industry, college coursework, and the externals holding generations of family photographs from the tenement years to now. Whatever arrives from Clydebank gets imaged before it gets fixed — the yard rule, applied to platters: measure twice, cut once.
Whatever arrives, the terms don’t move with the postcode: a free diagnostic first, a fixed figure in writing before any work — £250 + VAT for cards and sticks, £300 + VAT for any single drive, from £500 + VAT for RAID, NAS and servers — and on most jobs, no recovery means no fee. Every job is handled in-house by our own engineers and your data never leaves the UK.
Either — but do neither until it’s powered off for good; clicking is head damage and every restart scores the platters. Padded well, the post is genuinely safe. If you’re passing anyway, the counter at Tay House takes it over in two minutes.
Yes — age is not an obstacle, and Clydebank sends us plenty of it: IDE and early SATA drives from machines that outlived their software. Old interfaces, old file systems and old formats are all readable here, and the pricing band is the same £300 + VAT as a modern drive.
Power it down, pad it well, and choose your route — the counter at Tay House, 300 Bath Street (Mon–Fri 9am–5:30pm) or insured, tracked post from Clydebank. Either way it’s diagnosed free and quoted in writing before anything is decided.