MKV Files Won't Recover Properly - Different Files From PhotoRec
Posted: 04 Aug 2020, 06:41
Hello!
I deleted some videos today from my flash drive and my Windows settings had it so it permanently deleted them instead of sending it to the Recycle Bin. I've been messing around with both of the tools for a few hours now in an attempt to get them back, and I'm having little success.
TestDisk can easily find the deleted videos on my flash drive, but they don't seem to recover properly, as seen here:
Can find them fine... -
...but most recover as corrupt -
I've tried multiple media players and get the following errors:
Windows Media Player -
Media Player Classic -
VLC just doesn't play the video at all, no messages.
I had high hopes with PhotoRec. It recovered quite a few of the videos I deleted today, but not the specific ones I want back.
• I tried creating my flash drive into an image.dd file and doing PhotoRec and TestDisk on that, but got the same results.
• I tried PhotoRec with the option of getting corrupt files and that just recovered the same exact files.
• I tried something from a form post that had a similar issue I saw that also didn't work (Rebuild BS).
I'm close to giving up, but because I can see the files and recover them (albeit not all the way) in TestDisk, then I figure there's someway I can make PhotoRec try and get those specific files.
Any help would be very appreciated!
Thank you,
Jordan
I deleted some videos today from my flash drive and my Windows settings had it so it permanently deleted them instead of sending it to the Recycle Bin. I've been messing around with both of the tools for a few hours now in an attempt to get them back, and I'm having little success.
TestDisk can easily find the deleted videos on my flash drive, but they don't seem to recover properly, as seen here:
Can find them fine... -
...but most recover as corrupt -
I've tried multiple media players and get the following errors:
Windows Media Player -
Media Player Classic -
VLC just doesn't play the video at all, no messages.
I had high hopes with PhotoRec. It recovered quite a few of the videos I deleted today, but not the specific ones I want back.
• I tried creating my flash drive into an image.dd file and doing PhotoRec and TestDisk on that, but got the same results.
• I tried PhotoRec with the option of getting corrupt files and that just recovered the same exact files.
• I tried something from a form post that had a similar issue I saw that also didn't work (Rebuild BS).
I'm close to giving up, but because I can see the files and recover them (albeit not all the way) in TestDisk, then I figure there's someway I can make PhotoRec try and get those specific files.
Any help would be very appreciated!
Thank you,
Jordan