I’ve went through quite a lot of Google search results about corrupted/incomplete/broken MP4 files and see a lot of people with the same problem and no decent answers that result in successfully making the files readable. I have a few recovered mp4s I need to “fix”. I.e. every time I try to open them in Quicktime/Windows Media Player/Divx Player/VLC I get an error message like “file type not supported!” or “unsupported perimeters!” So basically the files are unreadable. Looking at the history of this in Yahoo answers people seem to suggest programs like Stellar Photo Recovery or Asoftech Recovery but these are software you need to pay to actually get results. I just don’t want to spend on software that’s probably going to say oops not a file format srykthxbye. I got the trial of Stellar and it couldn’t even show a preview for one of the mp4s in question so that’s not very promising.
tl;dr anyone here purchase the full version of Stellar photo recovery or Asoftech Recovery and it actually worked? Or is there anything else you might suggest to convert these files into something I can actually see? Thanks in advance to any non half-***’d answers.
Chosen Answer:
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on: 30th October 11
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You need to run the scandisk command that helps the computer to recover some of the files stored on bad sectors then you defrag the harddisk and that will be it all done.
I tried Asoftech Recovery and it worked for me. For Stellar, I never tried.
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