HELP!!! Recovering files from formatted P2 Card

[tony salaami]

I am at the end of a 16 hour day and accidentally formatted 2 8GB P2 cards that had footage on them.

I haven't shot anything new on them so no new footage has been recorded onto the formatted cards.

Is there anyway I can recover the footage?

This is documentary footage and can't be replaced so I really need to find out a way to recover the media. I would greatly appreciate any help or advice on how to fix my problem.

[puredrifting]

Hi Tony:

I am afraid I have never heard of anyone salvaging P2 footage from this situation. That's a bummer.

Dan

[Brian@202020]

I recovered files from a formatted P2 card, but they had no file extensions. My P2 offloader deleted and formatted the wrong card. I called my good friend I grew up with to see if he could help me out. He works for Geek Squad. He was around when there was only 19 people at the company before Best Buy bought them out. Now when he is in town he sits at a desk, but he spends most of his time traveling all over the world for Geek Squad. Anyway We sat around for 8 hours and got trashed while his programs did their thing. We finally got a list of several hunded files with no file extentions. By that time it was and hour away from my call time to reshoot the lost footage, so I abandened the recovery and went to set. I would have had to sit all day if not several days adding file extentions, but theoretically we were successful. He said what he did for me would have costed the average person thousands of dollars. He said he never gets to do fun stuff like that anymore, and was glad to help a friend out. Anyway It can be done with lots of money, or a real good tech friend.

[puredrifting]

Tony:

I have a tip for you that I disovered a few days ago. You might have success if you talk to the Data Recovery guys at Melrose Mac in Burbank. Worth a call at least.

Dan

[atlfilmguy]

http://66.225.214.124/~dvxuser/V6/showthread.php?t=80927

This is a thread about this same thing.
I was able to recover some files, with no extensions. They were all garbled up and even when we could view the files it was unusable.

Sorry, but it looks like it is not recoverable in any useful way. You would spend days or weeks redoing the extensions and it would mean nothing without the clip file that tells the audio and video how to "mesh". And the video file and the audio file and the clip file all have to be named correctly.

Good luck.