Hope fades for Focus DIY store rescue deal
SEVENTEEN employees of Focus DIY in Selby look set to lose their jobs as it emerged the store is not one of 55 sold in rescue deals.
Administrators Ernst and Young warned on Wednesday that 3,000 employees faced redundancy as they appointed retail consultants Gordon Brothers to liquidate the stock of 120 remaining stores.
Closing-down sales, including one in Selby, will start this weekend.
Mark Crane, leader of Selby District Council, said the news was disappointing, but he hoped something positive could come out of it.
He said: “I think the site itself could have other uses and we will work with North Yorkshire County Council to see if we can find a suitable business to move in there.”
Simon Allport, joint administrator from Ernst and Young, said they had been successful in securing up to 900 jobs from the sale of 55 stores in three separate deals, but it had not been able to find a buyer for the whole of the business.
The Harrogate branch, which employs 30 people, and one at Goole, which employs 18, have been bought by Kingfisher plc, which owns B&Q, as part of an agreement to buy up to 31 leasehold properties for £23 million in cash.
B&Q said it planned to start the process of refitting the vacant properties and opening them as new B&Q stores later in the year.
Wickes agreed to buy up to 13 stores, including the Beverley one.
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DIY how to rescue data from your Western Digital MyBook Western Digital MyBook data recovery - the DIY method.
So today I was just listening to some music that I keep on my Western Digital My Book ES 500GB external drive and suddenly the music stops playing and worse the MyBook no longer appears in My Computer. Oh dear.
I notice that the drive is still listed in the Device Manager which is strange. All my data is on this drive and my heart sinks.
However, one week on and I have recovered all my data and consider the drive to be rescued. This article describes how.
Things that didn't work work for me Unplugging the power cable from the MyBook and back in. No show. Restarting Windows. Nope, she's still not here. Using the USB system tray "Safely Remove Hardware" tool to disconnect the MyBook and reconnect. Still being stood up. Trying Linux - I'm going home. So what works?Well, dismantling your MyBook and plugging it directly into a spare SATA slot in your motherboard is what. And that's because common opinion has it that the USB connector board in the MyBook enclosure is crap and breaks for some reason.
Note! You will likely ruin the enclosure casing in this procedure, so be aware. You will also need to make sure you actually have a spare SATA slot on your motherboard and an additional SATA power cable as you will need both to hook up the back of your MyBook harddrive. If you don't have those, then you can probably find another USB SATA harddrive connector to do the same thing since it's the actual USB controller stuff that breaks easily I read on these MyBooks.
Step 1. Remove the rubber seal around the enclosure if you have one.
Step 2. I used a normal eating knife to pry around the casing edges to snap open the catches. You can lift the casing and look for where the catches are then just lever them up to release.
Step 3. Continue releasing the catches until the sleeve pulls off.
Step 4. Voila! You are now ready.
Step 5. Unscrew the circled screws with a Phillips screwdriver.
Step 6. Also unscrew this one.
Step 7. And finally unscrew these 2 and uou will free the harddrive. It probably has some additional casing on it. I didn't bother to remove that but it's just a couple more screws if you do want to get rid of it to mount it into a desktop slot.
Step 8.
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