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DVD Handycam Camcorder or VideoCam Disc Access Error, Disk Access Error, Disk Error, Disc Error, Format Error REC. DISABLE, CRC Error .VRO DVD-VR files DVD-R Corruption:- We have specialist knowledge to Finalise DVD video eg. Sony DCR DVD Handycam and Panasonic Videocam or Hitachi Camcorder with problems of corrupt DVD or trouble playing mini-DVDs that occur particularly during the disk finalising process. The Camera displays disc access error message when DVD disks are not closed or non-finalised / unfinalised disc and won't play. Unlike other recovery companies we can transfer your video to be playable on stand-alone DVD players. Also repair Corruption of DVD-VR .VRO files recorded on DVD-RAM recorder and CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check errors. Trouble occurs with Corrupt DVD disk that won't play in either stand-alone video players or the video camera, or problem transferring DVD video files to pc or mac computer. We have the equipment to bring your lost files back. We recover video from dvd discs that have not finialized properly as well as unreadable, unplayable or corrupt dvd disks. Lost video clips, movies due to the Disk Error, Disc Error or Format Error message when you turned on the camera, or the mini DVD disc finalization was accidently interrupted. Also Rec. Disable, format error, code 13 disc error unreadable disk. DVD Camcorder Handycam Videocam Camera's include:- Canon DC10 DVD handycam camcorder Canon DC100 DVD handycam camcorder Sony DCR DVD handycam camcorder Sony DCR-DVD7 DCR-DVD7E Sony DCR-DVD91E 91E DCR-DVD92E 92E Sony DCR-DVD100 100 DCR-DVD100E 100E Sony DCR-DVD101 101 DCR-DVD101E 101E Sony DCR-DVD103 103 DCR-DVD103E 103E Sony DCR-DVD105 105 DCR-DVD105E 105E Sony DCR-DVD200 200 DCR-DVD200E 200E Sony DCR-DVD201 201 DCR-DVD201E 201E Sony DCR-DVD202 202 DCR-DVD202E 202E Sony DCR-DVD203 203 DCR-DVD203E 203E Sony DCR-DVD205 205 DCR-DVD205E 205E Sony DCR-DVD301 301 DCR-DVD301E 301E Sony DCR-DVD403 403 DCR-DVD403E 403E Sony DCR-DVD404 404 DCR-DVD404E 404E Sony DCR-DVD602 602 DCR-DVD602E 602E Sony DCR-DVD653 653 DCR-DVD653E 653E Sony DCR-DVD703 703 DCR-DVD703E 703E Sony DCR-DVD803 803 DCR-DVD803E 803E Hitachi MV DVD Camcorder DZGX20A Hitachi Camcorder MV-100 Hitachi Camcorder MV-200 MV-230 MV-270 Hitachi Camcorder MV-350 MV-380 Hitachi Camcorder DZ-MV58A DZMV-58-A Hitachi Camcorder DZ-MV350A DZMV-350-A Hitachi Camcorder DZ-MV380A DZMV-380-A Hitachi Camcorder DZ-MV550A DZMV-550-A Hitachi Camcorder DZ-MV550E DZMV-550-E Hitachi Camcorder DZ-MV580A DZMV-580-A Hitachi Camcorder DZ-MV580E DZMV-580-E Hitachi Camcorder DZ-MV730A DZMV-730-A Hitachi Camcorder DZ-MV750A DZMV-750-A Hitachi Camcorder DZ-MV780A DZMV-780-A Hitachi Camcorder DZ-MV2000 DZMV-2000 Hitachi DVD Camcorder DZGX20A DZGX20-A Panasonic VDR DVD camcorder Panasonic VDR-M30K VDRM-30K Panasonic VDR-M50 VDRM-50 Panasonic VDR-M50B VDRM-50B Panasonic VDR-M53 VDRM-53 Panasonic VDR-M55 VDRM-55 Panasonic VDR-M55B VDRM-55B Panasonic VDR-M70 VDRM-70 Panasonic VDR-M75 VDRM-75 Panasonic VDR-M95 VDRM-95 VR_MOVIE.VRO Panasonic DVD-VR Recorder Samsung SC DVD camcorder Samsung SC-D557 DVD camcorder

MiniDVDR MiniDVDRW DVD-RAM 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... DVD Video Recordable mini Disks include:- TDK 8cm DVD-RW Rewritable DVD Camcorder Media (2.8GB - 60 minute) TDK 8cm DVD-RAM 60 minute rewritable for video cameras Sony Handycam 8cm 1.4GB 2.8GB 80mm 30min 60min mini DVD disks Sony Handycam DVD-R, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW, DVDR DVDRW. Sony Handycam DVD-R 60 min 2.8 GB Double Sided, Double Face disk Sony minidvdr minidvdrw minidvd minidvdram dvdram discs Maxell 2.8GB 80mm DVD Ram DVD-RAM 60min Maxell DVD-R 30 Min for video cameras - SQUARE CADDY Maxell DVD-R 30 Min for video cameras - ROUND CADDY Emtec DVD-RW Mini 2.8GB 60min Emtec DVD Mini 2.8GB 60min Emtec DVD Mini 1.4GB 30min 8cm Emtec DVD-R Mini 1.4GB 30min 8cm Bulkpaq 8cm 4x 1.4GB DVD for handycam CloneDisc 8cm 1.4GB 30min mini DVD CloneDisc 8cm DVD-R Recordable DVD Camcorder Media (1.4GB) OptoDisc 8cm DVD-RW Rewritable DVD for camcorders 1.4GB OptoDisc 8cm DVD-R Rewritable DVD for camcorders 1.4GB OptoDisc 8cm DVD-RW Rewritable DVD for camcorders 2.8GB Cyberstore DVD-RW 8cm min 36min 1.4GB mini DVDs Hyundai 8cm 1.4GB general purpose DVD-R Melody DVD-RW 1.4GB 30min miniDVD JVC DVD-R 30min 1.4GB 8cm JVC DVD+R 30min 1.4GB 8cm JVC DVD-RW 30min 1.4GB 8cm JVC DVD+RW 30min 1.4GB 8cm TDK DVD-R mini-DVDR TDK DVD-RW mini-DVDRW TDK dvdram minidvdr minidvdrw minidvd minidvdram discs Traxdata mini-dvd 8cm dvd-rw Traxdata 4x 1.4GB DVD-R Verbatim DVD-RAM miniDVDs Memorex mini DVD-RW Piodata 8cm in size, 1.4GB and 30 minute capacity mini DVD-R Panasonic DVD-R DVD-RW 2.8GB DVD-RAM Double sided rewriteable Panasonic dvdram minidvdr minidvdrw minidvd minidvdram dvdram discs PioData Ritek 4x 8cm mini DVD-r DataWrite Red 8cm 1x DVD-R 1.4GB 30mins Datawrite 8cm 4x 1.4GB DVD-R DataOn 2x Printable 8cm DVD-R RiDisc 4x DVD-r 8cm mini DVD Double sided mini dvd rw dvdrw dvd-rw dvd re-writeable discs Double sided mini dvd r dvdr dvd-r dvd recordable discs Typical DVD Disc Error messages Disc Access Error, Disk Access Error, Check disc error, Check disk, C error unreadable, disc error code 13 DVD not finalised, DVD not finalized, DVD Disc not finalized, DVD Disk not finalized, DVD Disc not finalised, DVD Disk not finalised, Disc won't finalize, Disk won't finalise DVD Disc Error, DVD Disk Error, DVD Disc Format Error, DVD Disk Format Error, Rec. Disable, not correct disk, the disk in drive is not formatted do you want to format it now DVD Video Camera Recording Problem / Trouble The problems with these mini DVD discs typically occur with the failure during the disc finalising process and results in unplayable video. The typical 'Disc Error" or "REC. DISABLE" messages are the first sign of trouble. The mini DVD disk does not finalise properly. We have the expertise to recover your video to a playable state. Unlike other recovery companies we can return your video to be playable on stand-alone DVD players.

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 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

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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.