I had absolutely no idea that data recovery services could do all of the things that I see them offering these days.  I had heard of companies that take and repair hard drives of laptops and desk top computers, but I was amazed at some of the things that some of these companies offer.  When the memory of my I-pod got deleted I just searched the internet to see if I could find any information, I didn’t really think that I would find anything – it was just a last ditch effort.  I stumbled upon a service that can not only restore the drives of media players, but they also claim to be able to perform recovery services on digital camera memory cards, cell phone sim cards, external USB drives, flash storage, CDs, DVDs and floppy disks.  You send them whatever needs to be restored; they inspect it immediately upon arrival and inform you whether or not they can perform the recovery. They claim that they can turn around virtually any job in just two or three days.  So I’ve sent them my I-pod and added the website to my favorites in case anything like this ever happens again.  If this service works as advertised I’m sure I’ll have a use for it at some point again in the future.