sturmie
29th June 2004, 14:28
i posted this over at AVSForum.com as well.
i desperately need some help...here's what happened:
i recently purchased two 250gb drives for my video editing machine and they installed fine. i then moved a bunch of captured video (AVI files captured via firewire from my miniDV cam) over to one of the drives...about 180gb worth. hearing that dynamic disks in Windows XP may give me better performance, i upgraded my drives to dynamic from basic disks...that ran fine for about 4 hours...then, both drives stopped showing up in windows explorer and showed as "dynamic unreadable" in disk management.
after a lengthy call to Micro$oft (they couldn't help btw), i found a nice app called R-Studio that at least let me recover the data...the problem is, about 75% of the AVI files are now corrupt and won't play at all. i have tried using AVI Repair, Video Fixer and a few other video repair tools and nothing seems to work...each one of them says that it's not an AVI file.
does anyone have any ideas? most of that video is real important and since i only had 3 miniDV tapes at the time, i don't have any of that footage backed up --in the past, i would rotate tapes in and out after capturing the video, but now i have over 15 tapes, so it's not a problem.
thanks for any help...sturmie
i desperately need some help...here's what happened:
i recently purchased two 250gb drives for my video editing machine and they installed fine. i then moved a bunch of captured video (AVI files captured via firewire from my miniDV cam) over to one of the drives...about 180gb worth. hearing that dynamic disks in Windows XP may give me better performance, i upgraded my drives to dynamic from basic disks...that ran fine for about 4 hours...then, both drives stopped showing up in windows explorer and showed as "dynamic unreadable" in disk management.
after a lengthy call to Micro$oft (they couldn't help btw), i found a nice app called R-Studio that at least let me recover the data...the problem is, about 75% of the AVI files are now corrupt and won't play at all. i have tried using AVI Repair, Video Fixer and a few other video repair tools and nothing seems to work...each one of them says that it's not an AVI file.
does anyone have any ideas? most of that video is real important and since i only had 3 miniDV tapes at the time, i don't have any of that footage backed up --in the past, i would rotate tapes in and out after capturing the video, but now i have over 15 tapes, so it's not a problem.
thanks for any help...sturmie