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    Hello !!!!

    I deleted a lot of video files. I recover them with an undelete software. All videos files were recovered (name and size) but when I try to play them nothing appears. I mean nothing appears or even shows. For example VLC open and does nothing, I doesn't even try to open the file.

    So my question is which program do you think can help me to repair the video files ????

    Thanks for your help and time.

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    You are probably going to need to supply more information to the people here in order to get help. What format are the videos? FLV? MP4? AVI? And what does MediaInfo say about the recovered videos. How were they deleted and what was used to recover them.

    It's possible some recovery software will recover as much as they can but the files may have been overwritten and they are not left in a usable format.
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    And did you write(add new files, copied files, etc) anything to the HDD after you deleted files? If so it's almost impossible to recover big video files completely.
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    If they don't play, then they don't contain any valid data. Try using a different recovery software. Otherwise, the data is gone. Especially if, as noted above, the HDD was still use after the files were deleted.
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  5. I am not clear - did you delete the files from the memory chip, or the HDD. Files on the memory chip are normally not saved sequentially, and so data recovery does require special software. The camera does 'clever' things with the FAT to make the physically fragmented files look logically sequential. When a FAT memory chip is deleted, all this fragmentation information is lost, so only specialist software will work.

    Files on the hard drive are normally sequential, so simple data carving will often recover the files
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  6. post the beginning of one of the files or a small video file so someone can take a look.
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    Originally Posted by goprorecovery View Post
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    Files on the hard drive are normally sequential, so simple data carving will often recover the files
    I'm sure you have heard of defragmenting the HDD?

    The FAT stores the information where all of the pieces of a file are located, whether they are sequential or not. It doesn't matter if it's a computer, mp3 player, or camera.
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  8. You are correct, the File Allocation Table (FAT) locates where the file fragments are. However, when a file is deleted, the FAT entry is also deleted, and so all this location information is lost. If the file was not sequential, then recovery is not trival.

    Camera memory chips are normally FAT (or exFAT), and the files are normally recorded out of sequence, so recovery has to be more than data carving. Hence my question if the problem was deleted files on hard drive, or camera memory chip. A NTFS drive stores location information in a different way, and often deleted fragmented files can be recovered without error.
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