Downloaded Camera Videos from huaweip10 and they got corrupted

[alimustafakhan]

Hi,

Few months ago, my HuaweiP10 was getting full, so I decided to download the camera videos and pictures to my Windows PC. These were playing fine in the Mobile Phone. As usual I opened the Windows Explorer, Cut and Paste all the contents in DCIM to a folder in my PC. 5 minutes later 15-20 GBs of data had been transferred. I looked at the files now copied, all the photo files had been copied correctly. But, to my horror every video file was corrupted, it showed that each file is around 20GB, and around 200 files mean just around 3.7TB of video data. Obviously this was a corruption, because the capacity of y hard drive is 500GB. I tried to put them back into Huawei but to no benefit. I tried some of the popular Video Editors to repair them (Handbrake is the only I can recall) nothing worked. I have these videos spreading over 2 years, with memories of my children growing up, I don't want to loose them to a corruption. Please help.

Thanks and best regards,

Ali

[davexnet]

Have you tried running CHKDSK on the computer HDD ?
Or right click the drive in Windows Explorer/properties/tools

[alimustafakhan]

Have you tried running CHKDSK on the computer HDD ?
Or right click the drive in Windows Explorer/properties/tools

Yes.. just did both of those, no difference

[davexnet]

In the future use copy and paste.
Have you recorded anything else since this problem occurred? Give this a try
https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download

[october262]

Hi,

Few months ago, my HuaweiP10 was getting full, so I decided to download the camera videos and pictures to my Windows PC. These were playing fine in the Mobile Phone. As usual I opened the Windows Explorer, Cut and Paste all the contents in DCIM to a folder in my PC. 5 minutes later 15-20 GBs of data had been transferred. I looked at the files now copied, all the photo files had been copied correctly. But, to my horror every video file was corrupted, it showed that each file is around 20GB, and around 200 files mean just around 3.7TB of video data. Obviously this was a corruption, because the capacity of y hard drive is 500GB. I tried to put them back into Huawei but to no benefit. I tried some of the popular Video Editors to repair them (Handbrake is the only I can recall) nothing worked. I have these videos spreading over 2 years, with memories of my children growing up, I don't want to loose them to a corruption. Please help.

Thanks and best regards,

Ali

with the file copied to your computer, rename the file to .MP4
and see if that plays the file.

might also try these - https://www.videohelp.com/software/sections/video-repair-fix