Data Recovery

[Shane Ross]

Do you have the master tapes? Master tapeless backups?

Project file?

Shane

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[Richard Clark]

thanks shane, yes, all my tapes are available and the project file was saved to my backup drive, I just never gave it a thought to back up the media. So if the worst comes i can simply spend the . . . time to re-ingest. Bugger 🙂

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[Shane Ross]

Yeah, the time and money spent on trying to recover the footage, and the sketchiness of how well it will be recovered might not be worth it. But that’s a LOT of hours.

RAID 5…worth the money.

Shane

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[Richard Clark]

many thanks Shane, I am sort of coming to that conclusion myself, bite the bullet and spend the time on uncompromised media and then make sure I have a back up. I will check out Raid5, cheers, Richard.

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[Jerry Alto]

Richard- Are the drives still spinning up? Have you tried Disk Warrior? Many of us here have used it successfully.

Jerry

G5 Dual 3GB Ram
FCP Studio 6.02
External 1 TB SATA Raid 0
Kona LH, Second system w AJA ioLA
Sony Z-1
GV-HD700

[Richard Clark]

yep, like my brain they continue to spin, yep, Disk Warrior, everything I can think of . . . I guess I am putting off the inevitable, redigitize! thanks for all your thoughts though, Richard.

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[Jerry Alto]

Richard- Ok, you are at the end of the road. I presume your 4 tb G-Tech is Raid 0. Because you say the set-up is new you probably have one failing drive. If you can isolate the bad drive here is a link for some last resort remedies;

<https://www.datarecoverypros.com/hard-drive-recovery-freeze.html>

Good luck!

G5 Dual 3GB Ram
FCP Studio 6.02
External 1 TB SATA Raid 0
Kona LH, Second system w AJA ioLA
Sony Z-1
GV-HD700

[Richard Clark]

thanks Alto, whew, that is some read, a bit beyond my brain I am afraid. i guess I will back up the project, save to another drive, delete everything on that drive, give it a clean via techtool and redig, see you all in a month or so 🙂

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Featherston Aotearoa

[Richard Clark]

I found the QT Files, they all look good, correctly labelled but when I went to open them was told they were not Movie files and would not open. Any ideas, otherwise i will simply bite the bullet and start over, bugger 🙂

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[David Roth weiss]

Richard,

Unfortunately, from your description it sounds as if the files have been corrupted or that only their header info still exists.

I have seen the same thing many times when various apps are used to try to resurrect drives that have gone bad. The files somehow return and give false hope, but they are sadly just shells of the former video files and wind up being worthless.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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