Recover VOB and SVCD video files?

[eventhrzn]

Hello

I just purchased the software after running what ended up being a week-long search on a 250 GB drive. Windows corrupted/deleted my MFT so I lost all the information on my files and have been using the lost files search to try and recover everything I can.

Two questions:

Most of the files I am trying to recover are MPEG-2 streams (SVCDs -m2v extension) or DVD VOB files. I thought the MPEG filter might find them but it doesn't look like it has. Can these file types be searched for?

Also, for the MPEGs it did find, it says it found 49,000 GB of files. Some of the files are over 200 GB themselves. What might cause this?

Thanks!

[GDH]

You should try a "Complete Format Recover" searching for the default selected file types. This is the best chance of getting your data back intact with original names and folder structure. These search of a 250gb drive would take about 20 hours.

If your MFT has been completely destroyed then the only way to find data is to do a "Complete File Search". In this method the files are found by also looking for the header and footer of each specific file type. To search for files in this way that are not listed we would have to add specific support for them, which means you need to send us some samples and as much information as you can about the creating software.

If you have run a "Complete File Search" and the results show files of a size greater than expected, it is an indication that the program has found the file header but did not locate the footer until much further down the disk. We have a lot of tests in Recover My Files to try and make the search results accurate, but this can still sometimes happen. It is mostly when the files are large and fragmented, so between the begining and then end of the file could be part of a completely different file.

[eventhrzn]

I ran the complete format recover and it found two partions. One was a FAT partition, and it contained nothing (just a bunch of [DIRxxxxx] directories). The other one was an NTFS partion, and it was basically just what is currently on the disk. It did not find the files I was looking for.

However, I know they are still on the disk, since some of the types (jpg, text) and even one of the mpegs (that was actually an mpeg) worked (from the previous lost files scan). The NFTS that was found said it had not been accessed since last Februrary, though I know that is not true.

Essentially how this happened is that I started the computer one morning and it ran chkdsk on this drive and lost most of my files ... I was however, able to find the log of what it did in the lost files so I at least have some idea what happened.

For the m2v files, I can send some samples, but they are about 60-100 MB a piece, so I would need an ftp or something to send them to. Most of these files are very large. They shouldn't be too fragmented but you never know... Back in Februrary when I bought this drive they were all dumped fresh from an old 80 GB drive. I have one or two VOB files as well I could send (they are even larger). Hopefully we can get these files back!

[GDH]

OK - please send and email to our support staff and they will set up an ftp account for you to send us some files.