Hi
any help would be greatly appreciated- i was shooting video on a xqd card,after the shoot, connected it to a pc , which had a shortcut virus on it and it made the directory structure disappear.
Had a basic easy recovery software and ran a raw scan on it and it was unable to find the files. Tried the sony software and it was able to recover 50gb of data. Now the problem is the sony softwarehas made .dat files of everything and nothing i try can convert it to.mxf format we were shooting on. The card is with sony india now but i am very anxious if someone would know of any software/hardware which can help recover the data.
The card could have gotten corrupt in 3 ways - when we took it out of the camera and the camera was still on, when we connected it to the pc with the virus(though the shortcut virus is generally harmless) or 3 there is some physical damage to the card.
Let me know if someone has any inputs/leads.
Thanks

The first step should have been to take a complete sector image of the card - not even worrying about files/filenames/partitions or other.

thihs is still a step that's possible, though video can be very hard to recover even when the recovery goes well and would have been successful for files such as .jpeg.

I don't think software is going to do much else, but I would only recommend R-Studio and GetDataBack.

hi
yes i did make an image of the entire card. That was the first thing i did.

Excellent, well done. So make sure you have an untouched backup of that file. and always work on a copy. If the file format is what these resources pertain to: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000013.shtml you might be able to customise R-Studio to give you a better recovery. But a quick glance makes me think this is a job for someone with good file carving skills.
I am willing to look at the disk image if you wanted to .rar it up into 100MB multi-part archive and upload it to my server.

Sir ,
If you are from Chandigarh i can have a look at the image .

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Amarbir S Dhillon , Chandigarh Data Recovery Labs [India]
Logical,Semi Physical And Physical Data Recovery
Website-> http://www.chandigarhdatarecovery.com

@Haque - let me know your server details and i'll upload it. my email is ishwinderjauhar@gmail.com
@amarbir let me know your email i.d as and i'll send you a 100mb rar file as well.
thanks

Hi Where are you based in India? We can help to recover data using multiplex techniques. PM you name /address and Email ID.

Wow ,
What is a Multiplex Technique ?

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Amarbir S Dhillon , Chandigarh Data Recovery Labs [India]
Logical,Semi Physical And Physical Data Recovery
Website-> http://www.chandigarhdatarecovery.com

@Haque thanks - let me know your server details and i'll send you a few of the .dat files as a rar
@Amarbir, yes i am based out of chandigarh, let me know your email i.d and i'll send you the files as well.
thanks

Check your mail ishwinderjauhar

As Usual Its a Trade Secret >>> Proprietary Technologies Developed In house which is not available with any one else in the world ...... Ha Ha Ha.

I think he means "Multiple techniques"

meaning play around with it once it is seen what it is

Wow ,
What a Expert .Next Time i will need some consultancy i will look unto you .Sometimes if you get time check this -> https://www.facebook.com/chandigarhdatarecovery/ . I think the person concern knows me [ though i am not sure ] . You folks can handle the case no issue [ No problem with the number of cases i am handling these days ] .

PS : Ishwinder this is amarbir from lynx sector 10 [ if you are the same ishwinder i am think i know ,sardarjee with little beard and turban ] .

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Amarbir S Dhillon , Chandigarh Data Recovery Labs [India]
Logical,Semi Physical And Physical Data Recovery
Website-> http://www.chandigarhdatarecovery.com