Hi
I'm hoping someone out there can help me with a lost data problem.
Excuse the very long explanation.
I took a hd that had been used connected to a mac extreme router as a shared wireless drive and put it in a USB enclosure,quick formatted on a XP laptop,copied a stack of mpg's across from a Sony hard drive based camcorder (30GB),checked they opened ok,stupidly deleted originals,then when I came to use the USB hdd again it would not mount in xp,i.e no notification that it had been plugged into xp,no sign of it in explorer,but shows up as an unallocated hdd in storage management window and wants me to initialise etc ( which in fact I may have accidentally done before reading it could damage file table).
Anyway,much swearing and self kicking later I immediately copied the offending hard drive to another exact same hdd another using a raw copy app in WinUBCD.
Now using Photorec (set to search for mpg's/mov's/mp4's) I managed to recover about 30 mins of the beginning of the camcorders files which is one large 7gb file which opens in VLC ok and also videos which I think came from the mac partition originally on the hdd.And also 26GB mpg that QuickTime tried to open but is black.(I suspect this may be all the Sony camcorders collection of videos).
Right so still not all files I wanted in their original shape and titles.
So last of I used Photorec and I just asked it to scan whole drive and it's outputted a massive 186Gb file which surprisingly once loaded up using VLC and left to buffer I can watch the first 7gb's worth of video I mentioned earlier and I can click a bit further along the time line to particular time points where I know other video's are,and they play fine.So I know I have a file that at the very least has all my videos from my 30GB camcorder which I can view in VLC but I want to either split this massive mpg up into manageable clips and trim them cos there's lots of time when theres just a black screen until it then finds new data.
Or do I run Photorec again using a different method or use Testdisk and try and do a proper job of it.
All I want is my original individually titled mpg's back and not one huge 186GB file.
I've read that Photorec doesn't recognise individual MPG titles and that sounds right as my MPG is titled something like "f1787870.mpg.
Can anyone give me some ideas what I should do? I didn't use Testdisk first off because I thought Photorec would work easily but I'm willing to try Testdisk.
I feel my problem is either one of these things:
I didn't format the previously used mac hdd properly in windows and yet windows could see it.
I've pulled the USB enclosure out before dismounting it the proper way via 'safely remove media' near the clock.
I did plug the enclosure into a home cinema USB port to see if I could play the videos (it didnt work and since found out it was for ipod music playing only) and that may have upset the hdd.
I can do screen dumps of the partition tables found and post them on here if anyone could help me.
Kind regards to all and hoping someone can help.theres a PayPal gift definitely in it for someone willing lol!
Mark
I'm hoping someone out there can help me with a lost data problem.
Excuse the very long explanation.
I took a hd that had been used connected to a mac extreme router as a shared wireless drive and put it in a USB enclosure,quick formatted on a XP laptop,copied a stack of mpg's across from a Sony hard drive based camcorder (30GB),checked they opened ok,stupidly deleted originals,then when I came to use the USB hdd again it would not mount in xp,i.e no notification that it had been plugged into xp,no sign of it in explorer,but shows up as an unallocated hdd in storage management window and wants me to initialise etc ( which in fact I may have accidentally done before reading it could damage file table).
Anyway,much swearing and self kicking later I immediately copied the offending hard drive to another exact same hdd another using a raw copy app in WinUBCD.
Now using Photorec (set to search for mpg's/mov's/mp4's) I managed to recover about 30 mins of the beginning of the camcorders files which is one large 7gb file which opens in VLC ok and also videos which I think came from the mac partition originally on the hdd.And also 26GB mpg that QuickTime tried to open but is black.(I suspect this may be all the Sony camcorders collection of videos).
Right so still not all files I wanted in their original shape and titles.
So last of I used Photorec and I just asked it to scan whole drive and it's outputted a massive 186Gb file which surprisingly once loaded up using VLC and left to buffer I can watch the first 7gb's worth of video I mentioned earlier and I can click a bit further along the time line to particular time points where I know other video's are,and they play fine.So I know I have a file that at the very least has all my videos from my 30GB camcorder which I can view in VLC but I want to either split this massive mpg up into manageable clips and trim them cos there's lots of time when theres just a black screen until it then finds new data.
Or do I run Photorec again using a different method or use Testdisk and try and do a proper job of it.
All I want is my original individually titled mpg's back and not one huge 186GB file.
I've read that Photorec doesn't recognise individual MPG titles and that sounds right as my MPG is titled something like "f1787870.mpg.
Can anyone give me some ideas what I should do? I didn't use Testdisk first off because I thought Photorec would work easily but I'm willing to try Testdisk.
I feel my problem is either one of these things:
I didn't format the previously used mac hdd properly in windows and yet windows could see it.
I've pulled the USB enclosure out before dismounting it the proper way via 'safely remove media' near the clock.
I did plug the enclosure into a home cinema USB port to see if I could play the videos (it didnt work and since found out it was for ipod music playing only) and that may have upset the hdd.
I can do screen dumps of the partition tables found and post them on here if anyone could help me.
Kind regards to all and hoping someone can help.theres a PayPal gift definitely in it for someone willing lol!
Mark
