How to recover lost videos from Corrupted hard drive

Have you lost your precious videos to a corrupt external hard drive? Corruption is a nightmare for any computer user. It hampers the regular work and brings along the crisis of data loss. A corrupt hard drive can give sleepless nights to anyone who has lost his valuable data. Similarly, if you have lost some videos, you won't find peace until you restore them. You can restore them from a regular backup very easily. But what if there is no backup available? Well, no need to be panicky, as many video recovery solutions are available today. All you need to do is download and install an appropriate tool and recover lost videos.

Why you should be careful about using any utility?

Many third-party utilities are available on the Web to do the needful. However, successful recovery hinges on the choice you make while selecting a recovery tool. A good choice will give you back the lost videos from a corrupt hard drive and make you relax, while a wrong choice can prove disastrous and end up spoiling everything.

How can you gauge a particular utility?

An efficient video recovery utility recovers videos from almost all corrupt or damaged storage media including memory cards, memory sticks, hard drives, Zip disks, digital cameras, camcorders, USBs and other removable media.

Moreover, a good utility facilitates recovery of videos in not just a corruption scenario but others as well. It must be capable of retrieving videos in various data loss instances including accidental deletion, unintentional or intentional formatting, file system damage, virus attacks etc.

Attributes which you should look for in a utility

A video recovery software must incorporate the following set of features:

Read-only

Interactive graphical user interface

Capable of recovering all video formats

Easy-to-employ

Demo version to preview all recoverable data

Fixing the corrupt hard drive and recovering videos

You should first fix the corrupt hard drive by formatting it again. The next step involves recovering inaccessible videos using a reliable video recovery software. It is suggested that you should not use the hard drive after formatting until you recover all the lost videos.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a comprehensive utility which recovers lost, deleted or formatted videos in just three simple steps viz scan, select and save. The video recovery software supports all video formats and is available for both Windows and Mac users.

Simpson having five years of experience in software industry currently working with Stellar information system and researching on video recovery software, digital image recovery and digital image recovery software.