1DC: Recovering lost footage from formatted card?

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gundammrw

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So a card I shot on recently was formatted before footage was offloaded. Nothing has been shot on the card since the formatting. Any luck recovering 1DC footage? Hoping someone has had this happen and had success with certain programs. Tried a few and files were recovered but did not play or recognized for what they were.

Thanks for any help guys.
 
Treasured might be able to help. The smart SOB makes it a temporary license for about 24HRS, not sure if he has written the algorithms for it but he has saved my ass a few times and it was well worth it as it was a live event the footage got erased on.
 
We had this happen and tried all sorts of programs. Most only recovered a small part.

In the end we use and totally trust PhotoRec which is also free. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
Works on PC, Mac, Linux and everything inbetween.

The defaults work pretty well but you can also set options to recover corrupt files, a verbose mode for deeper scanning (had to use this on a few occasions).

Heres a step by step guide. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec_Step_By_Step

This honestly beat any of the paid options out there.
 
Mercenary said:
We had this happen and tried all sorts of programs. Most only recovered a small part.

In the end we use and totally trust PhotoRec which is also free. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
Works on PC, Mac, Linux and everything inbetween.

The defaults work pretty well but you can also set options to recover corrupt files, a verbose mode for deeper scanning (had to use this on a few occasions).

Heres a step by step guide. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec_Step_By_Step

This honestly beat any of the paid options out there.
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Does it work with mov files? I actually had try recovering with a paid software, seems like the mov files is a bit different, and cannot be recovered. The software recover the DAT file instead but cannot be use.

THanks! I will give it a try though
 
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