How can I rescue a corrupt file?

[jammer20002]

I have VCD which has a .dat file that has been sonehow corrupted right at the end.

When copying the file... it always fails at the very last minute.
I assume this mean that most of the file is OK... and just the end bit is somehow faulty?

How can i resuce this file?
Or at least rescue as much as possible?

Thanks.


Jam

[jimmalenko]

Maybe try extracting as much of it as you can with VCDGear or ISOBuster ?

IMO you should be using one of these to extract the MPEG out of the DAT anyway

[jammer20002]

thanks for the reply.
i'll look at both of those.
someone told me that the .dat files are mpeg 1 files.
and renaming them to mpg simply 'makes' them be mpg files?

is the above correct?
if so... what do u mean extract the mpeg?

thanks.

[jimmalenko]

No. DAT is a MPEG with a different header, so you should extract the MPEG out of DAT files for best results. Renaming any file doesn't change it to be something else