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Reformating P2 card.
Hello again,
Thank you guys first of all for the info.
Here is my next question: The cameraman accidently formated the P2 card before we downloaded the footage, is there anyway to save the material or is it completely lost and has to be reshot? Please someone save me..and tell me the material isn t lost and there is a way for it to be recovered…thanks
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I’d check into data recovery services- weighing that against the costs of reshooting probably with another DP…
Noah
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Hi there,
Unfortunately you are dealing with flash technology, not
conventional hard disk storage. There is nothing to recover,
I’m sorry to say it’s gone for good. -
Not necessarily true- Flash card or hard drive there’s still data being written to portions of media that can in some instances be recovered. I’ve seen this done successfully with SD and CF flash cards in digital still cameras often. In fact, here’s a program that does just that”
-Noah
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You are quite correct when the case is a simple standard SD card, there is a fair chance of recovery. However P2 is actually four SD cards connected together with a small interface card between them.
Because of this when you format the card it uses “full zeroing format”
that is 100% format. You can see from Flashfixers Q&A that they also cannot recover from such a format.
Never the less I suppose that if the material is so valuable it is maybe worth the money to let them try. -
Respectfully, this can’t be true. I have used jihosoft’s recovery program and gotten files back, with differing sizes. If the drive had been fully zeroed, there would be no data. Normally systems only remove the marks that show a machine how to find files. Without those marks, the machine is free to overwrite data. The fact that I actually found files indicates they were not zeroed, but only made vulnerable to being overwritten.
That said, I have been unable to recreate a workable file/folder structure that will allow these files to be read by Final Cut Pro.
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