Hello everybody!
This video is about recovering a video file accidentally deleted from a hard disk, USB
drive or a memory card.
We’ll talk about various method of recovering files from a digital camera or dashboard camera,
and see what can be done if a video file was deleted from an Android device.
It is no secret that when you delete a file from the hard disk of your computer or laptop,
they are moved to the “Recycle Bin” automatically.
It gives you a good chance to recover such files if you realize that the file was deleted
by mistake.
Recover a video from the Recycle Bin If you deleted a video from your computer
or laptop and then realized it was a mistake, the first thing to do is to check the Recycle
Bin - it can be there.
To recover a deleted file from the Recycle Bin, right-click on it and select “Restore.”
As a result, it will return to the location from which you have deleted it before.
Yet remember that if the deleted file is larger than the maximal size you have set for the
Recycle Bin, it is deleted permanently instead of being moved to the Bin.
So be careful enough to read system notifications when you delete a file.
In our blog, there is a very detailed article about viewing, restoring or deleting permanently
the files sent to the Recycle Bin.
You will find the link in the description:
This is true when we are talking about a computer or laptop and some files deleted to the Recycle
Bin.
How to recover a file if you can’t see it in the Recycle Bin
But what should you do if:  a video was removed from a computer without
using the Recycle Bin, or the Recycle Bin was emptied after deleting a file;
 a video was removed accidentally right from the digital camera;
 a memory card was formatted by mistake while it was inside the camera;
 the data in the memory card is damaged (for example, due to a failure or because
of wrong ejection) and so on;
Suppose you deleted a video file or cleaned the memory card inside your camera by mistake.
When you connect it to your computer, you don’t find any files, and that is natural.
What if it was a video you made for someone else, or this video was the result of many
hours of work?
In this case: • install and launch Hetman Partition Recovery.
I will leave the download link in the description: • The program will scan your computer automatically
and display all hard disks and removable drives, physical and local disks connected to this
PC.
• Find the storage device from which you need to recover the video file.
Click on it and select the analysis type.
• You can start with “Fast scan.”
It is very quick and it saves the directory structure (the way how folders and files are
arranged).
• Wait until the scanning process is complete.
• As a result, the program will show all video files you can recover.
The red cross indicates the ones which have been deleted.
• You can use the preview window to watch the contents of the videos you can recover.
• Drag the necessary files to the Recovery List and click on the “Recovery” button.
• Choose the saving method and the corresponding folder, and click “Recovery” again.
• That’s all.
The lost video has been restored.
If for some reason the program didn’t find the deleted video file in the scanned disk
or memory card, click on “Content Aware Analysis.”
As a result, the program will analyze the selected disk more thoroughly.
It will search the disk for deleted video files by their signatures, that is, by their
contents.
This process is more complicated and much longer than “Fast scan,” that is why it
will take more time.
Wait until the process is over.
If your videos were lost after formatting a memory card or after a memory card failure
rather than after you deleted them, this method will be more effective.
In the same way, you can recover a video deleted from the hard disk of a computer or laptop,
removed after emptying the Recycle Bin or deleting the file without using the Bin.
In this case, you should use the program to scan the hard disk.
Recovering a video from a digital camera or dashboard camera (video recorder)
Essentially, there is very little difference between dashboard cameras used by so many
drivers, and ordinary digital cameras, so I united the two types of devices into one
part of this video.
However, you can recover data from them in the same way that I described a minute ago.
Just connect the camera, video recorder or their memory card to a computer, and recover
video files with the specialized program.
By the way, there is a special article in our blog about recovering data from a dashboard
camera (video recorder): Action cameras also have certain peculiarities
when it comes to recovering photos and videos.
Read another article about it: You can find the links in the description.
Recovering a video from an Android device.
Here’s the simplest way of restoring photos and videos deleted from an Android device
- in case they were stored on a memory card.
In this case: • Take the memory card out of your gadget
and connect it to a computer or a laptop using a card reader.
In some cases, you can use a smartphone or tablet connected with a cable as a device
to work with the memory card, but remember that data recovery software does not always
see a memory card connected to the computer in such a way, and there are certain reasons
why.
• After the memory card is displayed in This PC folder, run Hetman Partition Recovery.
• Follow the recovery procedure I have already described in this video.
If you need to recover photos or videos from internal memory of an Android device, it’s
a challenging task.
Recovering photos or videos from internal memory of a smartphone will require Android
superuser rights or ROOT rights, as well as developer’s tools required to enable USB
debugging.
In our channel, we have a very detailed video on this topic.
You will find the link in the description: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU9IfvlOR0o
Of course, these are only a few ways to recover video files.
Much depends on the particular device and media, as well as on the causes why the data
was lost.
If you have any questions about restoring deleted or lost videos, you are always welcome
to leave a comment and ask one.
That is all for now.
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