Partick barely needs a journey at all — the bench is ten minutes away for half the West End, and closer than the big supermarket for the rest. Students, medics, academics and everyone above a Dumbarton Road close: your failed drive’s commute is shorter than yours.
Partick Interchange makes this the best-connected page on the site — the Subway or the North Clyde line into town, buses down Dumbarton Road every breath, or a brisk walk along Argyle Street through Finnieston to Charing Cross. Tay House sits at 300 Bath Street, counter open Monday to Friday 9am–5:30pm. Posting from G11 feels almost decadent, but it works too.
West End casework is its own genre: thesis laptops at the worst possible moment, research data and clinical-adjacent machines handled with appropriate discretion, creative portfolios on ageing externals, and tenement-flat photo archives. University-quarter pressure is familiar here — deadlines are named at drop-off and taken seriously.
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.
Yes — and this exact emergency walks in every term. The data usually outlives the laptop, deadlines qualify for the priority track when they’re genuinely tight, and the free diagnostic same-day tells you where you stand. What kills theses is the week of DIY attempts first — skip that chapter.
Completely — the counter at Tay House works on turn-up terms, Monday to Friday 9am–5:30pm. Bring the device powered off; drop-off takes a couple of minutes, the diagnostic is free, and you’ll get the written figure before anything is decided.
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 Partick. Either way it’s diagnosed free and quoted in writing before anything is decided.