CD & DVD Data Recovery Overview
Data Recovery for Missing or Lost Folders & Files. We have the equipment to bring your lost files back. Specialist knowledge for file recovery from CD, CD-R, CD-RW and DVD corrupt disks including Apple Mac HFS HFS+ file systems. We also are specialist for mini-DVD Handycam camcorder disks that have "Disk Error" - See our DVD Video Disk Repair section for more information, and Sony Mavica CD Digital cameras.

CD Disks:-
CD-R CDR CDRW CD RW CD±RW CD-RW CD's CDs CDROM CD-ROM CD-DA CD-WO CD-i VCD SVCD SACD CD-ROM XA CD-MRW Mixed-Mode CD 650MB 700MB 800MB miniCD mini CD
Photo-CD, Multi-session, Karaoke-CD, Video-CD VCD CD-I FMV CD Extra CD Plus

DVD Disks:-
DVD+R DVD-R DVDR DVDRW DVD-RW, DVD+RW DVD RW DVD±RW DVD's DVD-RAM DVDRAM DVD-ROM DVCD DVD+MRW DVD+R Dual Layer, DVD-R Dual Layer, DVD+RW Dual Layer, DVD+R Double Layer DVD+RW Double Layer DVD+R Dual Layer DVD±RW DL DVD+R DL DVD+R/DL miniDVD
Sony Panasonic Hitachi Sanyo 8cm DVD-R DVD-RW mini-DVDs
DVD-5 DVD-9 1.4GB 2.8GB 4.37GB 4.5GB 4.7GB 8.5GB 9.0GB
mini-DVD+R mini DVD-R mini DVDRW mini DVD+RW miniDVD-RW

CD & DVD Data Recovery Overview
We have specialist knowledge for file recovery from CD, CD-R, CD-RW and DVD corrupt disks including Apple Mac HFS HFS+ file systems. We also are specialist for mini-DVD Handycam camcorder disks that have "Disk Error" - See our DVD Video Disk Repair section for more information, and Sony Mavica CD Digital cameras.

CD Disks:-
CD-R CDR CDRW CD RW CD±RW CD-RW CD's CDs CDROM CD-ROM CD-DA CD-WO CD-i VCD SVCD SACD CD-ROM XA CD-MRW Mixed-Mode CD 650MB 700MB 800MB Photo-CD, Multi-session, Karaoke-CD, Video-CD VCD CD-I FMV CD Extra CD Plus

DVD Disks:-
DVD+R DVD-R DVDR DVDRW DVD-RW, DVD+RW DVD RW DVD±RW DVD's DVD-RAM DVDRAM DVD-ROM DVCD DVD+MRW DVD+R Dual Layer, DVD-R Dual Layer, DVD+RW Dual Layer, DVD+R Double Layer DVD+RW Double Layer DVD+R Dual Layer DVD±RW DL DVD+R DL DVD+R/DL
Sony Panasonic Hitachi Sanyo 8cm DVD-R DVD-RW mini-DVDs
DVD-5 DVD-9 1.4GB 2.8GB 4.37GB 4.5GB 4.7GB 8.5GB 9.0GB
mini-DVD+R mini DVD-R mini DVDRW mini DVD+RW miniDVD-RW

DVD Disc makes include:-
Sony Maxell Imation Philips TDK CloneDisk OptoDisc Panasonic Hitachi Sanyo Verbatim Melody Memorex Ritek Intenso Infiniti Ricoh Plextor BenQ DataSafe Hi-Space Lite-on LG TraxData Cyberstore Piodata Vegeta RiVision Arita Ridisc Ridata Samsung Datawrite Bulkpaq Optodisc Budget Sumvision as well as other DVD-R DVD+R DVD-RW DVD+RW brands...

CD DVD Disk Data Recovery Capabilities UDF:-
Recover and retrieve the lost files on UDF discs, including: accidently deleted files, files on quick-formatted disc, files on incorrectly closed or non-finalised / unfinalised disc.

CD DVD Disk Data Recovery Capabilities Video Disks:-
We recover from discs that have not finialised properly as well as unreadable, unplayable or corrupt disks. See our DVD Video Disk Repair section for more information when you have lost video clips due to the "Disk Error" message when you turned on the camera, or the disc finalization was accidently interrupted.

CD DVD Disk Data Recovery Camera Photos & Pictures :-
We also recover lost photos on the mini CDs, created by Sony digital cameras that record directly onto discs (Sony Mavica CD digital cameras). For example, disc was not finalized, you lost an access to the photos due to the "Disk Error" message on the camera.

CD DVD Disk Data Recovery Drag n Drop:-
Retrieve back up files from the discs recorded in several stages or multisession discs. Recover CDs or DVDs created with integrated drag and drop applications, or packet writing software, including Sony abCD Roxio Direct CD, Roxio Drag-to-Disc, Ahead / Nero InCD, Prassi / Veritas / Sonic DLA, VOB / Pinnacle Instant-Write, CeQuadrat Packet CD, NTI FileCD, BHA B's CLiP.

File Repair Digital Photos CD DVD Floppy Disks, Discs Recovery
Failure, Format or deleted Floppy Disk Hard Disk, Disc CD DVD
Digital Camera photographs (Deleted/Formatted) Photo recovered. Retrieving data off old floppies or damaged CD.
Email corrupt files to us. Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access file repair. Undelete files. File inaccessible. Floppy Disks, CD's DVD's ZIP Retrieve File Recovery. Formatted Failure of Digital Photo Memory Card.
Unable to open a file, floppy, CD DVD Hard Disk Drive, Disc unreadable

Mobile Phone pictures, photos, images, photographs recovered.
Mobile phone camera photos recovered eg Sony Ericsson Memory Stick.

We recover data in the UK from the following Hard Disks
Western Digital, Fujitsu, IBM, Hitachi, Toshiba, Quantum, Seagate, Conner, TEAC, Samsung, Kalok
Click here to see a list of disks we recover data when they are not recognised in BIOS.
We fix all types of faulty hard disks, mechanical, electronic, software, firmware, virus problems.

How much will Data Recovery or File Repair cost?
A price / cost guide for Data Recovery is given below. Unlike many other data recovery and file repair firms we keep our pricing policy as transparent as possible.

The price covers recovery of your data as it presently exists on your storage media. This usually means your recovered data can be opened by the original application. However in the rarer cases the data loss results in file corruption. Unless stated, price does not included for repair of corrupt files. If this is necessary we can discuss your needs after the data is recovered.

The Data Recovery Process and Life Expectancy of the device.
It should also noted that by the time any data storage item is sent to us it has almost reached the end of its life. The recovery procedure normally marks the last chance of life for it. The repair procedure is merely to get the data off the device and marks the final resting place of the hard drive / flash memory / usb memory stick! In any event we would never recommend re-using any failed/repaired data storage device. Your data is simply too important and precious to risk it.

Precautions to protect your data during recovery?
We take a 'belt and braces' approach when it comes to recovering your data. If we use any specialist software, it is verified 'read-only' software, and we also take the added precaution of installing a 'data-write blocker' which physically prevents writing any data to your disk. This equipment costs several thousand pounds. Never let anyone near your data who simply relies on software alone not to corrupt or accidentally overwrite your data. We also only work on 'clones' of your original data leaving the original intact in a forensically sound manner. Not all companies take this additional step.

Speed of recovery
We understand that when you have lost your data, speed of return is essential. You may have staff waiting to proceed. The sooner we see the disk the sooner we can start to advise you of the likely timescale. Every job is different and may range from an hour for emailed corrupt files to several days for damaged hard drives. We will provide you regular information throughout recovery and if required part-ship data back to you to enable your business to continue functioning.

Your data privacy is a priority for us.
We have full non-disclosure and privacy agreement for any data recovered to protect your privacy.
We are not interested in the content, only getting the data off your hard drive CD, DVD, or memory card.

Returning your recovered data or repaired file.
The data will be given to you on either DVD, CD, Email, or another hard drive. You choose!
Note we supply hard drives for those that require their data back on a hard drive, and we would be pleased to quote you the additional cost of this based on the size of hard drive and your personal requirements.

Data Recovery from Removable Storage Devices & Memory Cards (Excluding Hard Disk Drives - See Below)	Data Recovery Cost guide (ex VAT)
Floppy Diskettes Failure / Formatted / Deleted IOMEGA 100MB 250MB ZIP Disks MAC or PC	£ 95.00 - £250.00
CD-ROM, CD-R CD-RW unreadable	£ 95.00 - £250.00
DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW unreadable IOMEGA Jaz disks	£ 95.00 - £350.00
Specialist for USB Pen Drive, USB 2.0 Memory Stick, Compact Flash Card, Smart Media, SONY Memory Stick, IBM Micro Drive, Secure Digital SD Card, Multimedia Memory Card (MMC), xD Memory Cards, Magic Gate USB Pen Drives, Flash Card™, Smart Media™, SONY Memory Stick™, IBM™ Micro Drive, Multimedia Card, Secure Digital Card, Sandisk mini Cruzer, Lexar JumpDrive Flash Memory, Dell USB Memory Key, Belkin Flash Drive USB2.0, Kingston DataTraveler USB 2.0 Flash Drives or any other data memory cards for digital cameras or digital photographs / photos / photo	£ 95.00 - £350.00

Note there may be small additional cost to the above if the Floppy, CD, DVD, Memory card has suffered mechanical damage or damaged electronics. We shall notify you as soon as possible.

Hard Disk Drive Data Recovery Prices (based on a typical 40GB drive)
Please call us to discuss your specific requirement or situation

If you wish to discuss any of the above our contact details are here

We aim to keep our prices low.
Most of our work comes through referrals. We don't wish to pay for massive marketing and advertising campaigns used by the larger national data recovery services. We keep our overheads low, enabling us to offer you a low price from a local Staffordshire data recovery firm. We are simply determined to be No.1 for data recovery in Staffordshire.

You can also refer to our Hard Disk Drive Failure diagnosis guide in our Hard Disk Drive KnowledgeBase.

Desktop Laptop Notebook SATA IDE SCSI USB & Firewire IEEE1394 harddisks
Professional data recovery and repair facility for desktop, mobile and laptop notebook harddisks, master/slave discdrives, USB Firewire hard discs, and have our own Class 100 clean room facilities as required by harddisc manufacturers for rebuilding failed drives. Hard Drive Password removal / recovery Blue screen of death.

Repair / Recover Hard Drive Manufacturers
Western Digital, Fujitsu, IBM, Hitachi, Toshiba, Quantum, Seagate, Lacie, Conner, TEAC, Samsung, Kalok

Repair / Recover fix Mechanical / Electrical / Firmware Hard Diskdrive Problems
Hard Disk Drive not recognised in BIOS. Dropped harddiscs, smoking harddrives!
Hard Disk Drive Noisy, Clicking, Scraping, Sound. Disc Drive Head crashes.

Repair / Recover from following Operating File Systems
Data recovery for FAT FAT32 EXT2 EXT3 XFS and NTFS file systems.
Linux with ext2fs, xfs, reiserfs & jfs filesystems on standalone & RAID volumes
Recover from partitions, even if the boot sector or FAT has been erased or damaged (does not work with the NTFS file system)
Recover files with the original time and date stamp
Recover files on network drives
Recover from all Win 95, Win 98, Win ME, NT 4.0, Windows™ XP and Windows™ 2000 systems.

Recovery of files, even when a header entry is no longer available from the following file formats:
ARJ AVI BMP CDR DOC DXF DBF XLS
EXE GIF HLP HTML HTM JPG JPEG JPEGS JPEG's LZH MID
MOV MP3 PDF PNG RTF TAR TIF WAV
ZIP Cubasis (music sequencing software) and WAV files

Recover / retrieve files in the following situations
- UNC Uncorrectable Data Error - especially Maxtor SATA
- Mains Power Surge
- Reversed power polarity / voltage from incorrectly plugging in power leads or cable
- Corruption of file systems FAT
- Corrupt Files
- Recycle Bin emptied or files were deleted without Recycle Bin
- Hardware or software failures
- Power failure
- HDD (Hard Disk Drive) not recognised in BIOS, computer not detecting harddiscs
- Virus attack
- Formatted Hard drives
- System shutdown
- Partitioning or boot-up sector problems
- Controller pcb Board failure / burnt
- Discdrive making repeated clicking sound
- No spin on diskdrive motor
- Forgotten or Lost Password removal from Hard Disk

Data recovery from flash / USB memory media cards including -
Specialist for USB Pen Drive, USB 2.0 Memory Stick, Compact Flash Card, Smart Media, SONY Memory Stick duo pro, IBM Micro Drive, Secure Digital SD Card, Multimedia Memory Card (MMC), xD Memory Cards, Magic Gate USB Pen Drives, Flash Card, Smart Media, SONY Memory Stick, IBM Micro Drive, Multimedia Card, Secure Digital Card, Sandisk mini Cruzer, SanDisk Ultra II, Lexar JumpDrive Flash Memory, Dell USB Memory Key, Belkin Flash Drive USB2.0, Kingston DataTraveler Data Traveler USB 2.0 Flash Drives, HP USB Digital Drive, Verbatim Store n Go, Targus Go-Anywhere, SimpleTech Bonzai, Imation USB 2.0 Swivel Flash Drive, Iomega Micro Mini, FujiFilm USB 2.0 Drive, Kanguru KanguruMicro, Victorinox Swiss Knife Memory USB, Sony Mini Micro Vault Microvault, TEAC FLD USB Flash Drives, Tiny Disk, Hi Space, Fujifilm, Mushkin Flashkin, PNY Attache, Transcend Jetflash2a, Verbatim Store 'n' Go, Simpletech Bonzai Xpress, Pocki Drive, Capacity 16MB, 32MB, 64MB, 128MB,256MB, 512MB, 1GB, 2GB, 3GB, 4GB, or any other data memory cards for digital cameras or digital photographs / photos / photo.

If you have unintentionally deleted or formatted pictures, videos or sound files on your data carrier or have pulled it out during a write operation, no matter - Apex Technology can reconstruct the lost data for nearly all cases. We can recover data when the computer complains that the "Disk is not formatted" or "the disk in drive E is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?". Of course you should choose "no" and give us a call! Alternatively your disk may not be recognised by the computer and it asks you "please insert a disk into drive". You know better, you know there is data there, but you think "how do I get my data back?" - we know how to get your data back.

We recover the following digital camera picture file formats
: .jpg, .tif, .bmp, .gif, Canon .crw , .vob dvd video, Fuji .raf , Olympus .orf (E-XX), Olympus .orf (C5050), Kodak .dcr, Minolta .mrw, Nikon .nef (D1H/D1X), Nikon .nef (E5000/E5700), Sigma - Foveon .x3f. Video files in .avi, QuickTime .mov format and audio files in .wav, .dss format can also be recovered.
Digital Camera manufacturers Sony, Panasonic, Canon, Nikon, Kodak, Minolta, Fuji, Olympus.

Apex Technology Specialists can recover your digital pictures after unintentional deletion, system error, accidental formatting the memory card, cyclic redundancy crc errors.

We rocover data from Optical Disk technologies including dual layer DVDs
DVD+R DVD-R DVDR DVDRW DVD RW DVD±RW DVDs mini DVD
CD-R CDR CDRW CD RW CD±RW CD's CDs mini CD
unreadable files, unrecognised discs corrupt movies and films. vob file recovery
These include Sony DCR DVD handycam, camcorder, professional video file repairs. SonyDCR DVD-91E DVD-100 DVD-101E DVD-200 DVD-201E DVD-301 DVD-301E camcorders, Panasonic VDRM50B, as well as for professional digital videos and video codecs such as Canopus. Hitachi Videocam Panasonic Camcorder. miniDVD's miniCD's with Disk Error message ( or Disc Error ). DVD Corruption, Corrupt Video file.

Typical disk Error messages
UNC Uncorrectable Data Error
Disc Access Error, Disk Access Error, Check disc error, Check disk
Disc not finalized, Disk not finalized, Disc not finalised, Disk not finalised
Disc Error, Disk Error, Disc Format Error, Disk Format Error, Rec. Disable, not correct disk, the disk in drive is not formatted do you want to format it now

We rocover data from Magnetic Disc technologies
3.25" inch Floppy disc, 5.25" Floppy disk IOMEGA 100MB 250MB ZIP disk 1GB 2GB Jaz Disc Ditto Tape Cartridge Apple MAC or PC

Data Recovery covers the following areas
Brighton, London, Manchester, Birmingham, Oxford, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Cheshire, Derbyshire, North West, West Midlands, Walsall, Wolverhampton, Stafford, Newcastle under Lyme, Stoke on Trent, Stone, Burton on Trent, Lichfield, Shrewsbury, Telford, Newport, Cannock, Rugeley, Uttoxeter, Keele, Trentham, Blythe Bridge, Cheadle, Barlaston, Festival Park, Hastings, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, Tamworth, Bedford, Cambridge, Northampton, Milton Keynes, Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Middlesex, Norfolk, Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Warwickshire, Atherstone, Stevenage, Luton, Hemel Hempstead, Glasgow, Scotland, Edinburgh, Fort William, Dundee, Perth, Stirling, Paisley, Dumfries, Elgin, Peterhead, Fraserburgh, Oban, Basildon, Romford, Chelmsford, Benfleet, Southampton, Edgbaston, Islington, Macclesfield, Bridgnorth, Bradford, Sheffield, Leeds, Yorkshire, Fife, Kircaldy, Suffolk, Thetford, Bury St.Edmunds, Ipswich, Newcastle upon Tyne, South Shields, Sunderland, Northumbria, Middlesborough, Hartlepool, Preston, Darlington, Rotherham, Penrith, Workington, Lancaster, Durham, Barrow in Furness, Gateshead, Carlisle, Teeside, Stockton on Tees, Erith, Kent, Ashford, Northhants, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, Bristol, Swindon, Bournemouth, Plymouth, Hastings, Maidstone, Southend on sea, Aberdeen, Inverness, Bridgnorth, Flakirk, Cardiff, Swansea, Chester, Liverpool, Blackpool, Aberystwyth, Wrexham, Carmarthen, Hull, Norwich, Gloucester, Bridgend, Torquay, Bath, Cantebury, Portsmouth, Exeter, AbuDhabi, Dubai, Sharajah, Belgium, New Zealand, Epsom, Surrey, Northern Ireland, Belfast, Dublin, Londonderry, Armagh, Cork, Eire

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Apex Technology - Current Research Area

Determined to be No.1 for Data Recovery in Staffordshire UK

We are presently spending a lot of research time overcoming the 'Hard Drive not recognised in BIOS' particularly for the Fujitsu Hard drive. This an been largerly attributed to the Cirrus logic chip on the controller board for a faulty batch of the hard drive produced during 2002. MPG3 and MPF3 series are particularly affected.

The problems with this Hard Drive are currently expected to peak over 2004/2005 and so we would recommend having a good data backup procedure in place, or perhaps moving critical data to an alternative drive.