Corrupted family videos

[bledimucaj]

Please I need assistance! I transferred the videos of my little daughter from my laptop in a USB and later noticed that most of them were corrupted and not playable. I still have them and they show normal physical memory but can't be played...I tried different back up and recovery software and video convertors but not positive results. I'm sad cause I we had good memories on those videos. Any supportive advice please! Write on my email <personal info removed by moderator>. If someone can fix I'm willing to pay (after i'll be sure the videos are playable of course). Thanks in advance!

 

[RolandJS]

Exactly how where these videos transferred from hard-drive to the usb flash drive? It might be possible to search the internal HDD for "older but deleted" copies of those videos. Windows Copy and Paste? Windows Move and Paste? 3rd party utility's copy or move? If the laptop's Windows and other stuff does not keep on writing, writing, writing, there just might be a good chance.

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

For future reference - - keep all important files backed up -- buy a couple of external hard drives just for that purpose.

 

[planetpolska]

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[planetpolska]

I had the videos on my laptopt, with operating system Windows 7 Professional and I did cut and paste by mistake rather than copy in a 32GB USB. So all files went to the USB. This USB seems to manipulate and corrupt only video files. When they were copied back to the laptop they were unplayable, but still with their original physical memory. I tried to play them with MediaPlayer, VLC, KMPlayer but same results. The format of videos is .MOV because videos were made with Iphone 5S...

 

[planetpolska]

For future reference - - keep all important files backed up -- buy a couple of external hard drives just for that purpose.

 

[planetpolska]

Yes Philip for sure. I have one and was just going to copy them... it was question of time....

 

[RolandJS]

The passage of time and the continual usage of Windows & 3rd party stuff will make finding earlier working copies of those video files much harder.