Recovering film that's been recorded over by accident.

~Wingnut~ | 20:41 Fri 27th Jun 2008 | Technology

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Hi all!
A friend was telling me today that her sister had accidently recorded over her daughter's sports day (of her daughter winning the race!) on her camcorder.
Are there any websites or downloads that will help her retrieve the footage?

She says she thinks the camcorder is a memory card and not disc or tape.

I said I would ask on here as I am sure I have seen similar questions asked on here (I could be mistaken tho!) and I was given very helpful advice on retriving pictures on my corrupt memory card.

Many thanx!

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beso

This is not corrupted but recorded over.

If the lost video was evidence in a serious crime the police might be able to do some fancy forensics but otherwise I think you can safely say it is gone forever.

terambulan

All is lost! Gawn forever! Kaboosh......think she had better prepare herself for divorce or kids tantrums.

Best to ask friends for their recordings.........pleadingly, ofcourse, for this unforgiveable misdeameanour.

tigersam258

this would depend on whether the memory for the camcorder is full or not. if not then it may be possible using a recover application as it may just be the header that has been overwritten. as my learned posters have previously advised, be prepared for it not being recoverable though.

baylisst111

There's no harm in giving it a go. As people have said, if it hasn't been recorded over yet, but just removed/deleted you can try recovering some stuff. Here's a link to some free data recovery programs (they become free after the first two "featured" links). Just make sure the program(s) you try support the storage the camcorder uses

http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/system/fwdat arecovery.html

However if it does use a tape it's likely to be gone forever.

~Wingnut~

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Hi all!!

Many thanx for your replies. I shall tell her to tell her sister to brace herself for the worst! lol I thought it was worth a try asking on here anyway as your all so good when it comes to things like this :o)

Thank you.

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