I am an amateur photographer, and love to shoot all the beautiful things, of course with my camera.

Every time I learn about something that is picturesque, I try my best to capture that with my camera. That's why, when I learnt about the beauty and simplicity of Chandigarh city, I rushed to that place on my last vacation with my family.

We traveled to many places there, including Rock Garden, Sukhan Lake, Zakir Hussain Rose Garden, Capitol Complex and Museum and Art gallery. I clicked various pictures at different places and moved further to explore other parts of this beautifully planned city.

While going back to our hotel one particular day, when, I had been shooting with my camera, the camera shut down quite abruptly. I was taken aback as I never had come across such a situation. I hit the camera lightly with my hand, shook it slightly, hoping to hear that familiar low whirring sound, that signifies the starting of the camera. But nothing helped. I was disheartened as I couldn't click any more pictures. So, I went back to my hotel for Data Recovery, and immediately connected my camera to my laptop. But my laptop declared: 'Memory Card Corrupt'.

That was the end of me. I couldn't believe that. I tried to access the memory card again. But to no avail!! My beautiful memories had been lost, already! And, I had not even taken backup of my photos. I didn't know what to do....

I was irritated, and to top it, there was some loud discussion that my wife was having with the waiter there. I got really annoyed and shouted on them. But my wife explained the situation to that guy and asked him to leave for the time being, to which he said something that changed things completely for me.

He had a friend who was a professional photographer, and had faced some such situations. And this friend had some software with which he could retrieve deleted files and also files from a corrupt card. I was elated, and apologizing for my behavior asked him to take me to his friend, immediately. He was a level-headed person, and understood why I had reacted the way I did and called his friend immediately. His friend came to our room in less than 15 minutes and loaded the software for Data Recovery. But, it didn't help!

My heart sank, and I lost all hopes of recovering my photos!! But, this guy suggested a Company named Stellar Information Systems Ltd., which gave specialized Memory Card Data Recovery Services Chandigarh, and might be able to help me. I had already lost my pictures and didn't want to lose my money on some project which might not be worth investing. But he said, the company followed a 'No Recovery, No Charge' policy, and was located very close to my hotel. After being convinced that there were no other charges, in case of non retrieval, not even hidden charges, I went with him to this company's office.

Stellar Information Systems Ltd., I learnt is an ISO 9001:2000 certified organization, that provides Data Recovery Services Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Gurgaon, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi, Noida, Pune and Vashi. Stellar Data Recovery Services. They recovered all my pictures on a DVD and informed me, that even if they had failed to procure my pictures, they could send the storage media to their Recovery Lab which is Class 100 Cleanroom, located in Gurgaon. They have highly trained people in the Gurgaon Lab, who apply some intrusive recovery procedures in those labs, and extract all the data from any storage media, including memory cards, hard drives(external or internal), iPods, etc.