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Scott Thibodeau · March 25th, 2013, 10:10 AM

Hey Folks,

I recently had the worst of luck with a bunch of video footage I had shot. I had about 500 GB's of video and photography from a 5 month trip to Baja California on two drives, one being a backup of the other. One of the drives failed and before I could replace it and do a backup, drive #2 failed as well. I had the drive repaired and recently got it back. Most of the files are fine but some of them are corrupt or damaged. Premiere doesn't recognize the file types. I'm wondering if there is software out there that might be able to either fix these issues or, at the very least, extra some or all of the video. The file types are MTS from a Canon HFS200 and MP4 from a GoPro. Any suggestions are much appreciated. I've searched the web and tried a few programs but to no avail.

Cheers,

Scott

Ed Roo · March 26th, 2013, 06:10 AM

SpinRite

$89 download and burn a boot CD

grc.com

The only recovery software to use on failed/failing hard disk drives.

It may take a while, so give it time. The longest known time to recover a hard drive is three months. Personally, I had one that ran for 23 day. It recovered the files.

Javier Boronat · March 26th, 2013, 06:17 AM

Hello Scott,

You could try to diagnose your files using Treasured from aeroquartet.com. Diagnose is absolutely free and repair service is based on a try-before-you-buy schema. So nothing to loose testing it. Best of luck!

--Javier

Scott Thibodeau · March 26th, 2013, 08:27 AM

Thank you Javier. That's what I was looking for.

Thanks as well Ed but the data has already been taken from the damaged disk and placed on a new drive it's just that some of the files are corrupt. I'm sure most of the data is still in there somewhere. :)

Scott Thibodeau · March 26th, 2013, 09:42 AM

I looked into Treasured and, being a PC user, was redirected to mp4repair.org. It's an online/subscription service where you upload your files via a web browser. The site was able to repair my file and it gave me a preview of what the fix would look like but it's an online service and that doesn't work for me. I have many GB's of data to repair and would rather a program that I can download and use locally with batch files. There must be something out there that can handle this. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Scott

March 25th, 2013, 10:10 AM	#1
Scott Thibodeau Regular Crew Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Winnipeg Manitoba Posts: 96	Corrupt File Recovery Hey Folks, I recently had the worst of luck with a bunch of video footage I had shot. I had about 500 GB's of video and photography from a 5 month trip to Baja California on two drives, one being a backup of the other. One of the drives failed and before I could replace it and do a backup, drive #2 failed as well. I had the drive repaired and recently got it back. Most of the files are fine but some of them are corrupt or damaged. Premiere doesn't recognize the file types. I'm wondering if there is software out there that might be able to either fix these issues or, at the very least, extra some or all of the video. The file types are MTS from a Canon HFS200 and MP4 from a GoPro. Any suggestions are much appreciated. I've searched the web and tried a few programs but to no avail. Cheers, Scott

March 26th, 2013, 06:17 AM	#3
Javier Boronat New Boot Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Barcelona (Spain) Posts: 12	Re: Corrupt File Recovery Hello Scott, You could try to diagnose your files using Treasured from aeroquartet.com. Diagnose is absolutely free and repair service is based on a try-before-you-buy schema. So nothing to loose testing it. Best of luck! --Javier

March 26th, 2013, 08:27 AM	#4
Scott Thibodeau Regular Crew Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Winnipeg Manitoba Posts: 96	Re: Corrupt File Recovery Thank you Javier. That's what I was looking for. Thanks as well Ed but the data has already been taken from the damaged disk and placed on a new drive it's just that some of the files are corrupt. I'm sure most of the data is still in there somewhere. :)

March 26th, 2013, 09:42 AM	#5
Scott Thibodeau Regular Crew Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Winnipeg Manitoba Posts: 96	Re: Corrupt File Recovery I looked into Treasured and, being a PC user, was redirected to mp4repair.org. It's an online/subscription service where you upload your files via a web browser. The site was able to repair my file and it gave me a preview of what the fix would look like but it's an online service and that doesn't work for me. I have many GB's of data to repair and would rather a program that I can download and use locally with batch files. There must be something out there that can handle this. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Scott

March 26th, 2013, 06:10 AM	#2
Ed Roo Major Player Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Columbus USA Posts: 312	Re: Corrupt File Recovery SpinRite $89 download and burn a boot CD grc.com The only recovery software to use on failed/failing hard disk drives. It may take a while, so give it time. The longest known time to recover a hard drive is three months. Personally, I had one that ran for 23 day. It recovered the files.