Although we are not specialists in data recovery, from time to time we are presented with corrupted hard drives and memory cards.

Using drive repair and data recovery software tools we have managed to successfully restore thousands of photographs, work documents, e-mails and (most recently) 70+ family videos.

Celerity Design does not have a dedicated lab or workshop for data recovery, and if your media is physically corrupted there is little we can do.  Having said that, many types of data corruption are recoverable and we are happy to try and help in the event of your data loss.  Our rates are very reasonable, and we won't charge you anything for assessing the damage.  If we can recover your files, you will only be charged by the hour (not by the number of files) and the cost of the media to return your data on.

Recommended Backup Strategy for Home Users 

Our best advice for home users is to back up your data to DVDs every week or month depending on your need. We'd actually advise doing *full* backups, so that even if one disc should fail in the future, you will still have plenty of backups. DVDs are cheap enough nowadays to make this a viable solution.  For photographs, we strongly recommend using the free Google Picasa software, which makes backing up photos to DVD extremely simple.