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Data Recovery for Missing
or Lost Folders & Files. We have
the equipment to bring your lost files
back.
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No Data
Recovery - No Fee basis.
Our
pricing guide for Data Recovery
is below. Also see our list
of Capabilities
below.
Email
file for repair or data recovery.
If
you are unable to open, unreadable
or have a corrupt file eg Microsoft
Office Word, Excel, Access,
Outlook that you particularly
need quickly, you can now email
it to us for recovery or repair.
Use the above email address.
See details below.
For speed you will shortly be
able to pay online.
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Hard
Disk Drive Fault Diagnosis
Our Hard
Disk Drive Knowledgebase
now provides a guide to
help you assess the state
of your hard drive. This
will help you determine
if it is recognised in the
computer's BIOS, why it
is making clicking, grating,
or scraping noises, or perhaps
it is simply silent! Read
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File Repair Digital
Photos CD DVD Floppy Disks, Discs
Recovery
Failure, Format
or deleted Floppy Disk Hard Disk,
Disc CD DVD miniDVD mini-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
Sony Hitachi Panasonic Handycam Camcorder
Videocam mini-DVDs with Disk Error
Disc Error
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
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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
| Computer sees the hard drive? |
Noisy Hard Drive? |
Spinning Hard Drive? |
Data Recovery Cost guide (exVAT) |
| Yes |
No |
Yes |
£350.00 - £450.00
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| Yes/No |
No |
Yes/No |
£450.00 - £550.00 |
| Yes/No |
Yes |
Yes/No |
£550.00 - £850.00
(Our maximum charge is £850.00) |
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.
As a growing
business we don't want to see any Data
Recovery job leave Staffordshire.
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Recovery -
Capabilities |
Determined
to be No.1 for Data Recovery
in Staffordshire UK
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You can also refer to our Hard Disk Drive Failure diagnosis
guide in our Hard
Disk Drive KnowledgeBase.
Desktop Laptop Notebook 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 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems.
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
- Recycle Bin emptied or files were deleted without Recycle Bin
- Hardware or software failures
- Power failure
- HDD (Hard Disk Drive) not recognised in BIOS
- Virus attack
- Formatted Hard drives
- System shutdown
- Partitioning or boot-up sector problems
- 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
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, Epsom, Surrey, Northern Ireland, Belfast,
Dublin, Londonderry, Armagh, Cork
You have a
problem we haven't listed? Email us
now.
Email Enquiry@apextechnology.co.uk.
This helps us to help you.
Thank you.
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Technology - Current Research
Area |
Determined
to be No.1 for Data Recovery
in Staffordshire UK
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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.
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Data
Recovery &
Data Storage News
| Hitachi Perpendicular Data Storage Technology |
| 25/03/2007, Register.co.uk |
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Hitachi achieves industry-leading areal densities via Perpendicular Recording. That probably does not mean a lot to you! Seagate, Hitachi and Toshiba have all worked on this technology for some time, and cross-own the patents on it, according to Rob Pait, Seagate's director of consumer storage marketing.
It basically means they have found a way to pack approximately 10 times the hard drive capacity on to the same size disk. I know what you are thinking… wow that’s great but my computer is still the size of the waste bin so why would I be interested. The target hard drives will be used in MP3 music players, mobile phones, cars, handheld computers, personal video recorders (PVRs).
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| SanDisk Shoot n Store Flash Cards |
| 26/02/2007, Sandisk |
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The cards, offered in 32-megabyte, 50-picture capacities, are aimed at consumers who are transitioning from film-based cameras to digital photography or who want the simplicity of storing their images without downloading to a computer or saving to an optical disc. The first cards shipped will be the popular SD and CompactFlash formats, followed later in the year by other cards and capacities, including Memory Stick PRO.
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| WD Caviar® Hard Drives WhisperDrive™ and SoftSeek™ Technologies |
| 30/01/2007, Western Digital .com |
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Heat is the hard drive killer. Users tend to increase case cooling at the expense of noisy fans and annoying hums. Western Digital have announced an enhancement to their WD Caviar® family of hard drives, which have significantly lower opertaing temperatures. Their next-generation desktop-class drives also offer customers quiet operation, higher performance and larger capacity. Rotating at 7,200 RPM in capacities up to 320 GB, and offering either the EIDE or Serial ATA interfaces, the new WD Caviar products are available now in the distribution
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| Apple Mac Data Recovery HFS & HFS+ File Systems |
| 26/02/2007, Apex Technology |
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Apex Technology are pleased to provide the new facility to recover data for Apple Mac users. Whether you own a Mac G3, G4, G5 or you lost your data on CD DVD USB or Firewire device, we have the equipment to bring your data back.
All your hard work for Graphics, Images, Photographs and Multimedia video files need not be lost forever. We recover from HFS and HFS+ file systems and CD’s and DVD’s formatted in the Apple Mac Superdrive. We can return your data burnt to an Apple Mac formatted DVD+-R.
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| Fujitsu HandyDrive 2.5 |
| 31/01/2007, Fujitsu.com |
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Fujitsu launches new external 2.5" HandyDrive. The attractive new HandyDrive from Fujitsu comes in capacity points of 40BG, 60GB, 80GB and 100GB and offers users the ability to transfer large amounts of data, for use as a temporary backup solution or for storing and running software applications. The drive is bus powered via the high speed USB 2.0 interface and is compatible with PC, Apple Mac and Notebooks.
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| Standard tries to unlock USB keys' potential |
| 10/01/2007, CNET News.com |
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A standard for application hosting on USB drives has been created by a Californian company and is already being backed by software makers
Who needs to carry a laptop, when you can store all of your data and applications on a pocket-size USB flash drive? Two companies are launching an effort to answer that question this week.
M-Systems and SanDisk on Friday launched an effort the two companies say will define new hardware and software specifications for USB flash drives, the tiny storage devices used by many consumers to plug into a PC's USB port to back up files or shuttle them between devices. The new specifications would create a standard method for allowing the drives to host applications and data. The companies announced the effort, dubbed U3, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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| Sony DCR DVD Handycam Camcorder corrupt videos |
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We are seeing an increasing number of corrupt DVDs and films from the new wave of camcorders designed to record the movie direct onto the mini dvd format.
The problem seems to arise near the end of the DVD. The DVD does not finalise its recording leaving the DVD in an unplayable state and unrecognised by computer. Our experts who have extensive video file knowledge, have now managed to re-build the film & videos so they are again playable on both computer and stand-alone DVD players.
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| Fujitsu MHU2100AT hard disk drive |
| 30/11/2006, Fujitsu .com |
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Fujitsu Europe Ltd, suppliers of computer hard disk drives, announced its next generation MHU2100AT 2.5" 9.5mm mobile hard disk drive to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). Fujitsu's new mobile hard disk drive offers up to 100GB of capacity and nearly a 30% increase in areal density allowing manufacturers to design next generation portable computing and consumer applications.
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| Kanguru Flash Card Writer |
| 18/11/2006, Kanguru .com |
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The Kanguru FC-RW allows you to quickly and easily copy or backup your flash card data onto a CD without a computer. Simply plug it into any wall socket, insert a blank CD and flash card and quickly and easily make copies of your photos to hand out to friends and family. This lightweight portable flash card burner is extremely versatile and works with 7 different media types including Compact Flash, IBM Micro Drive, Smart Media, Secure Digital, Sony Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO, and Multimedia card. The FC-RW also works as a CD-RW when plugged into a USB2.0 port (backwards compatible with USB1.1) or even as an audio CD player when headphones and a music CD are inserted.
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| Sandisk CompactFlash Hits Whopping 8GB |
| 10/11/2006, Everything USB .com |
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SanDisk’s Ultra II line of flash memory cards may be what you’ve been looking for! They allow for 2GB in a SD card, 4GB in Memory Stick Pros, and a whopping 8GB for Compact Flash.
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