HD recovery -> broken AVI files

[tcglog]

Hi! I'd appreciate any help!

My HD crashed and I have used recovery softwares which have resulted in broken AVI files.
Example file with Gspot:

Bad chunk in frame data: Invalid length
· Chunk: /RIFF:AVI /LIST:movi
· Offset: 0x000ab0d0
· Value:0x8a9b66ef
OpenDML (AVI v2.0)
Video: 2.08 MB (38.80%)
Audio: 274 KB (4.99%)
AVI Overhead: 3.01 MB (56.21%)

[ISFT] CanonMVI06
Codec: MJPEG

Length: 0:07:467


When I open it with VLC I see a split second of footage only. VirtualDub can't fix it, the hex editor looks pretty normal to my knowledge. One other file I had showed lots of words like from a dictionary for a few hunred (thousand?) lines in the hex editor.

1) Do I have any hope for the first file and its kinds?
2) What about the file with the weird words in hex, is that totally corrupt?

Thanks alot!

[aedipuss]

looks like the recovery software couldn't follow the sector file chains of the videos. they are not going to be fixable.

[tcglog]

Thanks aedipuss! That is valuable information because now I guess I can stop trying to fix them, accept the loss, and just try to find the ones that are still working.

Thanks again!