Hard Drive Failure + Corrupt P2 Footage = Help!

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Hard Drive Failure + Corrupt P2 Footage = Help!

Posted by Alex m. White on October 20, 2008 at 12:33 am

I am 2nd AC/P2 Workflow on a project being shot this weekend. The producer purchased an Iomega UltraMax Pro 1.5TB hard drive last week. I formatted it as a Mirror RAID, and on Friday night – after the first day on set – I imported all 36 clips into FCP 5.1.4 as well as copy two P2 Cards completely raw (the original Contents + lastclip.txt stucture). Everything was going great.

Saturday morning comes around, and the next time I plug in the Iomega drive (the second time its been plugged in total), one of the drives fails. It could not be detected using Disk Utility nor DiskWarrior. The only application that could find anything was DataRescue II. Unfortunately it would have to take 21 hours to completely scan the Iomega RAID.

Today, Sunday, DataRescue “recovered” all of the data. Unfortunately, it appears to all be completely corrupted. The VIDEO folder under the CONTENTS folder has ‘broken’ mxf files (see attached photos at link). None of the .mov footage brought into FCP will open, either.

I have tried Raylight, P2 Genie, and the “Repair P2 Clip/Volume” on both P2 Log Pro and HD Log. Raylight and P2 Genie did not do anything and the closest HD Log got me were corrupted files with a few random frames of not as corrupted footage (see attached photo at link).

https://picasaweb.google.com/alexmwhite87/P2Problems#5259025023395737442

Is their any hope of recover those QT or MXF files?
Thank you so much for your time!
Sincerely,
Alex M. White

Felipe Santos replied 17 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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John Fishback
October 20, 2008 at 4:03 pm

You said you had a mirrored RAID. Isn’t all the data still on the other drive that didn’t die?

John

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Felipe Santos
June 9, 2009 at 7:31 pm

Hi,

Can you recover MXF files..

I need help… I format my P2 card and need restor the files.

I use some programs but any work with MXF files. (boomerang, EasyRecovery Professional, virtuallab, recover my files)

Do you have solution on this problem?

thanks

FELIPE SANTOS
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