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 Post subject: Recovering a MP4 video from a SD card
PostPosted: August 20th, 2022, 13:36 
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No, this is not a normal load program and recover a load of MP4 files, this one is a little more complex and here's why.

My brother and me recorded some drone footage and for some reason the drone went away and did a little sightseeing trip before coming back when the battery went low. So curouse at what the drone caught, and the original video I wanted, we went to download the files.

But the computer read the SC card was damaged and needed fixing or something. My brother accidentally formatted it anyway, and then did a test by making a new Small MP4 file about 5MB in size.

Now, The original file would have been much bigger (over 15mins of footage in 1080p) and should still be on the card in its raw form, but no recovery software can detect this as the first 5 MB of the file had been overwritten and allocated to the new test file. I know, I told my brother not to format, but it was too late.

I am hoping to find a program or something that can scrub through the raw video data on the SD Card and export the correct ones I want. I know the file is formatted in a MP4 format so I just need to recover the rest of the data after the 5gb boundary that the file was overwritten.

So basically there is a huge original MP4 file that was saved to the SD card. The sd card was formatted and a smaller test MP4 would have overwritten the original only up to the first 5 mb. I would like to recover the rest of the original MP4 as the first few seconds would not have anything meaningful. But the original mp4 header would have gone.

Any ideas.

SD card works fine. Hope you can help.


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 Post subject: Re: Recovering a MP4 video from a SD card
PostPosted: August 20th, 2022, 13:55 
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Have you given the card image the once over with https://www.cnwrecovery.com/html/downloads.html

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 Post subject: Re: Recovering a MP4 video from a SD card
PostPosted: August 20th, 2022, 14:41 
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Thanks for the link, I'll give it a go and see how it looks.


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 Post subject: Re: Recovering a MP4 video from a SD card
PostPosted: August 20th, 2022, 15:38 
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Photo Recovery (and video) from small NAND flash based devices:

https://www.disktuna.com/photo-data-recovery-service/

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 Post subject: Re: Recovering a MP4 video from a SD card
PostPosted: August 20th, 2022, 17:05 
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fzabkar wrote:
Photo Recovery (and video) from small NAND flash based devices:

https://www.disktuna.com/photo-data-recovery-service/



Umm not sure I like this statement on theire website - "I will NOT return the card back unless my recovery is unsuccessful. Note that these unstable devices arent'fit for continued use anyway. If the card requires chip-off I will contact you. "

There is nothing wrong with the chip and it works fine. I still need it back after recovery...!!!


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 Post subject: Re: Recovering a MP4 video from a SD card
PostPosted: August 21st, 2022, 10:36 
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ShaneWard wrote:
fzabkar wrote:
Photo Recovery (and video) from small NAND flash based devices:

https://www.disktuna.com/photo-data-recovery-service/



Umm not sure I like this statement on theire website - "I will NOT return the card back unless my recovery is unsuccessful. Note that these unstable devices arent'fit for continued use anyway. If the card requires chip-off I will contact you. "

There is nothing wrong with the chip and it works fine. I still need it back after recovery...!!!


You can image the card and share that if the card is fine. I put that there because I don't want to waste time sending $10 broken SD Cards to other end of the World.

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