Please help: Corrupted data recovery

[Spork829]

Hi, posting for a friend. He was working with a video in Premiere Pro, and he used the 720p Youtube video setting to export. He accidentally selected the original raw file to write over. It then gave him an error, and now the file says size: 0 bytes and refuses to be used for anything. Any way to recover this or is he screwed?

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I doubt it would have overwritten the original footage since they would almost certainly be different file extensions and thus different names... are you absolutely sure that's what happened?

[Spork829]

1 minute ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

I doubt it would have overwritten the original footage since they would almost certainly be different file extensions and thus different names... are you absolutely sure that's what happened?

As far as he says. I think that when he was selecting where to save the export he selected the original footage (like, actually clicked on it) and then hit export so it copied over. TBH I'm not sure what you mean by file extensions.

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6 minutes ago, Spork829 said:

As far as he says. I think that when he was selecting where to save the export he selected the original footage (like, actually clicked on it) and then hit export so it copied over. TBH I'm not sure what you mean by file extensions.

Well there is a good chance that part or all of it is gone but you could try some data recovery software

[Spork829]

4 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Well there is a good chance that part or all of it is gone but you could try some data recovery software

Okay, what would you recommend that's free  (this isn't a huge deal but he would like it back).

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1 minute ago, Spork829 said:

Okay, what would you recommend that's free  (this isn't a huge deal but he would like it back).

I don't have personal experience with them but this is generally a trustworthy source of information, so any of these would probably work well:

http://lifehacker.com/5237503/five-best-free-data-recovery-tools

[The Flying Sloth]

Recuva, try using it, it's free and always works for me

[Spork829]

6 minutes ago, The Flying Sloth said:

Recuva, try using it, it's free and always works for me

Literally just tried that, it found nothing under the directory where the corrupted file is. Haven't tried the deep scan thing yet though.

[The Flying Sloth]

1 minute ago, Spork829 said:

Literally just tried that, it found nothing under the directory where the corrupted file is. Haven't tried the deep scan thing yet though.

Deep scan and come back here, if deep scan can't find anything, I'm afraid it's gone

[Spork829]

1 minute ago, The Flying Sloth said:

Deep scan and come back here, if deep scan can't find anything, I'm afraid it's gone

Will do, he doesn't want to bother till he gets off then he'll do it overnight. Will update.

[The Flying Sloth]

2 minutes ago, Spork829 said:

Will do, he doesn't want to bother till he gets off then he'll do it overnight. Will update.

Good luck