1TB of Broken Video Files... Uhh...

[Karant]

Ez [H] crew, was hoping you guys can offer me some advice here on what I can do to resolve this issue.

A few weeks ago I had accidentally deleted an entire 1TB partition (video storage) through Windows Disk Management (no fucking "Queued Jobs > Apply" process). So I immediately ran some recovery software to recover whatever it is I lost. I had seemed to have recovered everything in it's original file system hierarchy just as it was before, taking up the very same amount of hard-drive space, but now more than half of the video files don't play with VLC. Most of them are .WMV, .MP4, .AVI, .MOV, and .MKV. A lot of the time VLC doesn't even give me an error message, it just doesn't respond to me hammering away at the "Play" button. Any idea what I can do? Thanks guys...

 

[Soarin]

I would take a look at http://atomicparsley.sourceforge.net/ I used it and also another tool. it came in a zip folder called video repair. I do not remember where I found it or what. I thought I bookmarked it but alas I didn't. I do have the zip file and i could dropbox it for you.

Also try this. I remember using this method to finally fix it. http://superuser.com/questions/417100/how-to-open-and-repair-an-m4v-or-mp4-video-file

 

[Karant]

Thanks for the response, I'll check out my options here. Anyone else got suggestions?

 

[mw8t]

Re-copy the files from your backup

 

[auntjemima]

I agree with mw8t. Copy them from their current sectors and then possibly back.