Corrupted file from Canon 5D, from compact flash

[elmuz]

Hi all,
a friend of mine brought me a 4GB Compact Flash from Canon 5D, with video content recorded on it.

He told me the Camera stopped recording like "accidentaly", like it couldn't close the file... Actually he was using all the availabile memory, and now on the CF card there is one broken MOV file.
You can't donwload the file cause windows says "error... media corrupted or something", you can just browse on the card without playing or dragging the only big (3,9GB) .mov file.

At first I did a "chkdsk /F" from Windows cmd, but it didn't solve the probem... at that point magically the file became 32kB (from 3.9GB)... panic!

Then with a rescue/recovery software I was able to recover that stupid big original file (which became .chk because of the chkdsk command)... Now I have on my hard disk almost the original mov file which I couldn't download from the compact flash.
The only thing I now about that file is it's a .mov file recorded on Canon 5D...

Is there a 'parser' for mov file? Actually I don't care if he loses first or last seconds... I know video is inside, but nor a software would play it...
Any suggestion?

[Baldrick]

I have not seen anyone been able to solve such a problem. Check for example https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/321512-Repairing-Fixing-mov-ideas-or-help-with-hexe...ht=mov+corrupt

Maybe you could try use a pay service like treasured and maybe try CnW Data Recovery on the memory card.

[elmuz]

Thank you Baldrick... Treasured revealed the content (even if it is H.264, the 'hardest'..) and says 95% of success...
I gave every info to that friend, showing video is still safe, just locked in a bad file... Now it he wants he'll pay for it...
By my side, mission complete.
Thank you.