HD data recovery of family videos

[Arrriba]

Hello,
A couple of days ago my little son accidentally deleted a folder on our computer of family videos that was transfered over from our hard drive camcorder.

Naturally, that data's been recorded over on the camcorder's hard drive. So hopes of trying to recover it from there are pretty slim.

On the other hand, that video was transfered over to our pc's hard drive and then accidentally deleted.

Soooooo, I immediately removed that drive from that PC so that no further reading/writting would occur.

I installed it as a secondary drive on another PC and I tried a data recovery software called Pheonix Stellar.

This software was able to find a bunch of these ".mts" deleted files but they all seemed to be 4k in size.... which of course is waaay too small.

Would anyone know someone or a company knowledgeable enough who would be able to retrieve these deleted home video files?

[Xylob the Destroyer]

use File Scavenger - it's the best recovery software around (relatively cheap too).

[minidv2dvd]

it's also possible that the data is just gone. it all depends on what occurred after the folder deletion. if anything was written to that drive afterwards the chain of clusters for each file may have been overwritten. if so all that's left is the file name. it wouldn't even have been necessary for you do do anything, windows writes files to the drive by itself all the time, as in moving the files to the "recycle bin".

[edDV]

If important consult a a data recovery specialist. The first thing they do is image clone the drive preventing further damage.