Zero102
03-15-2014, 06:29 PM
I am trying to recover a video file from my dashcam's SD card. I check it every couple weeks and I've never had an issue with this card until now (roughly 1 year of use). When I put the card in my phone it says there is only ~50MB used on the card and it shows almost nothing on it. In my wife's phone it also shows almost nothing on the card but it says that ~31/32GB is used. I stuck it in my computer and used photorec to pull off what it could, and it found a bunch of video files but they all have the wrong extension (although about the right file size, they should all be ~160MB and most files are 160-163MB) and won't play in any media player I've tried (media player classic, VLC, windows media player).
Does anybody know other good (free) recovery software that may work, or any way I can open these corrupted video files to figure out which one may have what I'm looking for?
I came within inches of hitting a deer today and wanted to review the video to see if I missed a deer standing on the side of the road or if it really did just sprint across the road without me having a chance to see it coming. Obviously this isn't worth any money to me to get back so I'm mainly just doing a best effort thing with free software. I would offer up the video files in question but there are ~30GB of video files and I don't know if the one I want even recorded properly.
Does anybody know other good (free) recovery software that may work, or any way I can open these corrupted video files to figure out which one may have what I'm looking for?
I came within inches of hitting a deer today and wanted to review the video to see if I missed a deer standing on the side of the road or if it really did just sprint across the road without me having a chance to see it coming. Obviously this isn't worth any money to me to get back so I'm mainly just doing a best effort thing with free software. I would offer up the video files in question but there are ~30GB of video files and I don't know if the one I want even recorded properly.