Boxhamster
New member
Hi there,
I am helping a friend with her WD MyPassport WD40NMZW-11GX6S1.
She's a videographer and has an incredible important file on the disc that started to throw up errors reading and writing. HDD Sentinel confirmed bad sectors.
Certain files can be copied, but some not due to bad sectors and it's exactly this one .mp4 file she needs. Disc is formatted in HFS+ she's been using with her MacOS on Catalina.
I am on PC and have since been able to extract a 4GB fragment of the file via UFS Explorer Professional Recovery by reading out the hex code.
I was then able to restore 6min of the video successfully using this "recover_mp4": *****://***.videohelp.com/software/recover-mp4-to-h264
But the sad thing is that the show was 30min long. Hence I need your assistance on how to proceed.
I am now thinking to use ddrescue via linux to clone some of the disc (is that possible?) and then try further restoration/fixing methods on the image.
Very thankful for any suggestions here before continuing.
Boxhamster
P.S.: We checked the SD card. Unfortunately my friend used the camera, including formatting and filming. So it's not there anymore. Wish she told me about the problem earlier before trying to doctor around herself. She thought it was just a MacOS issue.
I am helping a friend with her WD MyPassport WD40NMZW-11GX6S1.
She's a videographer and has an incredible important file on the disc that started to throw up errors reading and writing. HDD Sentinel confirmed bad sectors.
Certain files can be copied, but some not due to bad sectors and it's exactly this one .mp4 file she needs. Disc is formatted in HFS+ she's been using with her MacOS on Catalina.
I am on PC and have since been able to extract a 4GB fragment of the file via UFS Explorer Professional Recovery by reading out the hex code.
I was then able to restore 6min of the video successfully using this "recover_mp4": *****://***.videohelp.com/software/recover-mp4-to-h264
But the sad thing is that the show was 30min long. Hence I need your assistance on how to proceed.
I am now thinking to use ddrescue via linux to clone some of the disc (is that possible?) and then try further restoration/fixing methods on the image.
Very thankful for any suggestions here before continuing.
Boxhamster
P.S.: We checked the SD card. Unfortunately my friend used the camera, including formatting and filming. So it's not there anymore. Wish she told me about the problem earlier before trying to doctor around herself. She thought it was just a MacOS issue.