Update
Everytime I plug my videocam into my computer, "Drive I (No label)" and "3 Physical" appear. They are both exactly the same size (27.64GB), and approximately the same size as my videocams hard drive (30GB).
I ran a Fast File Recover on both drives where 0 files were found.
I did a Complete File Search on the 3 Physical drive, and instead of finding 20 then saving the files, I luckily was busy and ended up with 170 files from which I selected groups of files and ended up saving 107 files (84.05GB).
I had about 45 files ranging from 6,000KB to 11,000KB and 65 ranging from 12,000KB to 17,000KB. What was strange is that when I previewed them, they were all of the same clip.
The largest file I saved (the saving process took over 12 hours) was 28,963,826KB. There were 13 files of this size but I selected to save just 1 when it was taking so long. I previewed the 7:14:33 clip, and it was one huge clip of all the videos I had in my videocam before I deleted the contents of its hard drive, but there was no audio. It just played the contents silently as one long recording.
The last file I saved was 30,000KB and was again of the same clip as the other 105 files, except a little longer.
In the end I think I'm just glad that I have the video files back, even if I have to edit the 7 hour file with another program to separate the different files as needed. It is going to be tedious though. But I have been running the program (along with my camera and an external drive) for a whole week now, and I really don't want to go through the whole process again unless I know I'll get better results, and how could we possibly know that, right?
My concern is that there is no audio, which is obviously is a bummer. Why do you think that happened? I'm not sure how much value this information would have, but when I opened the files with Windows Media Explorer, before the files actually played, I got the following messages: Connecting, Sending request for codec, Error downloading codec, and then the file would play. This is in contrast from before where the files wouldn't play at all.
What do you suggest I do next?
Thank you!!
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