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The End
10th October 2014, 13:29
How can I recover a corrupted video file?

I had a camera similar to a Gopro attached to my motorcycle when the mount snapped and the camera smashed onto the ground.

I've recovered the SD card and can view all of the footage, except the file being recorded at the time of crash.

It displays as 0kb and cannot play in VLC or Windows Media Player. It is a .avi file.

Is there any way to recover it?

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Scuba_Steve
10th October 2014, 13:51
My experience, no would be the simple answer

n3Xro
10th October 2014, 13:56
Have to agree unfortunately, 0 kb means there's nothing there to recover. I would suspect that the video was still being held in the camera memory before writing to the drive at the time of the incident, either that or the impact corrupted the entire file before it was committed to the card.

The End
10th October 2014, 14:02
Yea bugger... off to try and get a replacement, or hopefully a refund :brick:

Akzle
10th October 2014, 14:27
fuck i hate gopro. and i hate faggots that video every shit.

throw greiners photorec over it, if it exists (has correct hex headers) then it'll find it. since it shows up as a 0b file, that indicates it does infact exist.

then go and shoot yourself in the face for videoing your shit.

Akzle
10th October 2014, 14:28
4 minutes of video? really? that important?

Maha
10th October 2014, 16:59
fuck i hate gopro. and i hate faggots that video every shit.

throw greiners photorec over it, if it exists (has correct hex headers) then it'll find it. since it shows up as a 0b file, that indicates it does infact exist.

then go and shoot yourself in the face for videoing your shit.

Recovering corrupted video file? You would ask the cops for your hard back drive wouldn't ya?

Akzle
10th October 2014, 17:06
Recovering corrupted video file? You would ask the cops for your hard back drive wouldn't ya?

my hard back drive?
a) i wouldn't give it/them to them/it
b) backups off site.
c) 256 bit encryption.