Problems with recovered files
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2018 10:01 am
I just did my first file recovery of a HD formatted by Synology Linux OS but NOT as a Raid volume. Recovery was necessary because I deleted a volume believing that I had a backup. I was proven wrong...
Luckily the only operation that 4TB HD was exposed to was moving it from an older NAS to a new NAS. Of course everything on that disk got wiped out at that point.
Using R-Studio on a Win 10 PC took days to scan the 4TB and came up with a recovered file volume that was several times larger than the disk. That was a major surprise as I had to scramble to find space for all these recovered files.
That disk never stored anything but video files created by a number of different cameras some of which were edited my Vegas Studio Pro.
To my surprise, and that's where my real problem is right now, there were file formats recovered I have no idea how to deal with. Aside from the known formats mpg, mp4, mts, mov, and swf there is a vp6 format that I have not been able to open with anything yet although I supposedly have all the current codecs on my PC.
These vp6 files are huge, there are a ton of them, and I have no idea what they are, where they are coming from, and what to do with them.
Any help is very much appreciated.
Luckily the only operation that 4TB HD was exposed to was moving it from an older NAS to a new NAS. Of course everything on that disk got wiped out at that point.
Using R-Studio on a Win 10 PC took days to scan the 4TB and came up with a recovered file volume that was several times larger than the disk. That was a major surprise as I had to scramble to find space for all these recovered files.
That disk never stored anything but video files created by a number of different cameras some of which were edited my Vegas Studio Pro.
To my surprise, and that's where my real problem is right now, there were file formats recovered I have no idea how to deal with. Aside from the known formats mpg, mp4, mts, mov, and swf there is a vp6 format that I have not been able to open with anything yet although I supposedly have all the current codecs on my PC.
These vp6 files are huge, there are a ton of them, and I have no idea what they are, where they are coming from, and what to do with them.
Any help is very much appreciated.