Disc Repair
All modern optical and solid state memory devices and hard discs offer a
very robust method of storage of digital data.
BUT, they are not indestructible! Accidents happen (surface is scratched or
otherwise damaged) and the disc becomes unplayable or, for rewritable
storage (e.g. a USB pen drive) the file system becomes corrupted and hence
unreadable.
Unless you have actually broken the disc (i.e. it is, literally, in several pieces)
it may be possible to retrieve the data on that disc and transfer at least some
of it to a new, blank disc. Using highly-specialised software we can attempt
this for you. 100% success is, regrettably, rare but we have been able to
“repair” at least some of the data on:
A Video CD which contained the only visual record of a client’s wedding but
which had been physically damaged (it had been very badly scratched).
A USB pen drive which contained a mixture of photos and videos but which
was reported as “unreadable” by several computers.
In both these cases the repair was successful and the owner of the pen drive
was able to view all her photos and videos again, whilst the wedding CD had
100% of the audio and approximately 80% of the video made playable.
Our standard turn-around time for discs sent to us for the No Obligation Trial
Service (see our Price List for details) is approximately one week.