EaseUS Recovering Corrupted Files

[Eazy Cheezy]

Hey all,

 

So, I work for an up and coming internet based studio, and we recently attended an event where we interviewed many key people in the community. Long story short, I wasn't paying attention and accidentally deleted the source video for the interviews and they were not backed up anywhere (a stupid mistake, I know). I used the EaseUS data recovery wizard in an attempt to recover the files and it technically recovered them, but I'm only able to play/use the bad interview takes (go figure ) and the rest are in some kind of corrupted state. I'm using a Windows 10 machine and the files came off of an SSD. Is there any way to go into the code with a text editor and change the directory header or what not?I've exhausted most of my knowledge and am at my wit's end. Any kind of help is appreciated.

[Mira Yurizaki]

The problem with corrupted files is unless there's something to correct it, either within the file itself, the file system, or something else, those files cannot be recovered. There is no magic CSI button to fix corrupted files.

[Windows7ge]

If the files have become corrupted it means that while those sections of the drive were marked empty that some of the space was written over. It's impossible to recompile what would be considered a broken file. It's important when a file is "permanently deleted" that as few writes to the drive are performed. Most likely small sections of the file were over written with new data.

[Daan101]

while the file may be corrupt, that doesn't mean the whole thing is wasted, there can be different levels of corruption and if you're lucky only a very small part of the video is corrupt.

I don't really know how to make it so that you can watch the video tho, maybe try and transcode it?

but fixing a corrupt file is a nearly impossible task.