Data Recovery and Disk Utilities Forum @R-TT

That may happen if there are too much cross-linked folders on the disk. It's hard to say more without seeing the actual data.
I hope I'll post the description file for Movie maker tomorrow together with explanation what to do with that.

How to use R-Studio to find your MovieMaker files.
1. Connect the USB device to your computer and create a file type description file from the code in the next message. Name it something like MovieMaker.xml.
2. When installing R-Studio, select the USB device as the Destination Folder.
3. Run R-Studio. Go to Tools -> Settings -> User's file types and load the MovieMaker.xml. Click the Apply then OK buttons.
4. Right-click the disk on which the files resided and select Scan on the shortcut menu.
5. On the File systems, DISABLE all file systems.
6. Check that the Extra search for known file option is enabled and click the Known File Types button.
7. On the Known File Types dialog box, click the Clear All button.
8. Find the MM Projects and select it by clicking the box to the left. Click the OK button.
9. Click the Scan button. See the scan progress.
10. The found files will appear under Extra Found Files, although they won't have their original names, they'll be numbered.
11. Recover the files.
The recovered files should look like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project name="My Movie1" themeId="0" version="65538" templateID="SimpleProjectTemplate">
<MediaItems />
<Extents>
<ExtentSelector extentID="1" gapBefore="0" primaryTrack="true">
<Effects />
<Transitions />
<BoundProperties />
<ExtentRefs />
</ExtentSelector>
<ExtentSelector extentID="2" gapBefore="0" primaryTrack="false">
<Effects />
<Transitions />
<BoundProperties />
<ExtentRefs />
</ExtentSelector>
<ExtentSelector extentID="3" gapBefore="0" primaryTrack="false">
<Effects />
<Transitions />
<BoundProperties />
<ExtentRefs />
</ExtentSelector>
<ExtentSelector extentID="4" gapBefore="0" primaryTrack="false">
<Effects />
<Transitions />
<BoundProperties />
<ExtentRefs />
</ExtentSelector>
</Extents>
<BoundPlaceholders>
<BoundPlaceholder placeholderID="SingleExtentView" extentID="0" />
<BoundPlaceholder placeholderID="Main" extentID="1" />
<BoundPlaceholder placeholderID="SoundTrack" extentID="2" />
<BoundPlaceholder placeholderID="Text" extentID="4" />
<BoundPlaceholder placeholderID="Narration" extentID="3" />
</BoundPlaceholders>
<BoundProperties>
<BoundPropertyFloatSet Name="AspectRatio">
<BoundPropertyFloatElement Value="1.3333332538604736" />
</BoundPropertyFloatSet>
<BoundPropertyFloat Name="SoundTrackMix" Value="0.5" />
</BoundProperties>
<ThemeOperationLog themeID="0">
<MonolithicThemeOperations />
</ThemeOperationLog>
</Project>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<FileTypeList version="2.0">
<FileType id="2312" group="MM Projects" description="MovieMaker Project" features="" extension="wlmp">
<Signature from="begin" offset="41">Project\x20name</Signature>
<Signature from="end" offset="7">Project</Signature>
</FileType>
</FileTypeList>

Sorry, the second line should look this way:
<FileTypeList version="1.0">

Thank you for the reply Alt.
But I did not understand you.

I need to open Notepad, copy this code into it:
And then save the file as "MovieMaker.xml" ?

No, you need to open Notepad, copy this code into it: And then save the file as "MovieMaker.xml"
The first piece of code was a sample of how a wlmp file looks like inside.

Thanks Alt.
But why you are mentioning the .wlmp file, when Windows Movie make file format is .mswmm ?

Well, apparently I confused two programs Windows Live Movie Maker, which file extension is WLMP, and Windows Movie Maker, which extension is MSWMM. I'll make a correct version of the file this Monday.

Could you send me 3-4 small project files, because I can't find Windows Movie Maker to install it? My mail raptorbck (at) gmail (dot) com.

I sent you the file. Sorry for delay, I had health issues.