Corrupted Video File (MPG)

Pikapoka22

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Hello - I am completely lost and I am needed assistance.

I had a video file (Mov) on my USB flash drive. I was transferring my pictures from USB to PC. During this time, I opened a video file (it was not transferring at this time) from my USB and I believe this may have corrupted the video file. It wouldn't open and said the video was corrupted.
After my pictures were done transferring, I tried moving this file to my PC and it will not allow me, saying file was corrupted. I reinserted the USB and Windows told me to scan/fix the USB before using. After scan complete - the video file changed sizes, and is a MPG however it still will not play. It does not say corrupted when I try playing, it will just come up to a black screen.

I tried using VLC, Windows Media Player, WMP Classic, Xigua, iTunes.
I have Windows 8.1.
I tried running "file repair" www.filerepair1.com but it says file is not damaged
I ran Mini Tool Disk recovery hoping I can find a previous version of it, but no luck

The file came from another HDD 1 year ago, but it was CUT AND PASTED, so I cannot run mini tool disk recovery to look for the deleted file...

Any help would be appriecated as this video file is very personal to me and I really want to get it fixed.
 
Try MPC-HC (https://mpc-hc.org/downloads/). If that also says it's corrupted, then you're going to have to give up on ever recovering the full file. You can try transcoding it in Handbrake or MeGUI/avisynth, but at best you'll be able to play back only the part up to the corruption.

You might be able to find professional data recovery services and they might be able to recover some of the data around the corruption (before and after), but that will cost you a huge sum of money.


Pretty much though you should give up on it and learn to keep backups of important documents. I personally have three places of backup, a RAID 1 primary, an external disk that is plugged in only during backup, and then really important stuff goes on the cloud (encrypted of course).