[mythtv-users] Hard drive failure -- recovery method suggestions

[Thomas Boehm]

On 17/04/15 10:31, Jerry wrote:
> My question is, what tools are recommended for recovery?  I have a
> feeling that a lot of the files are trashed due to the speed of the
> failure of the drive.  Would testdisk be an option?

I found out that testdisk is quite useless for that task when it comes
to big media files. Firstly you'll end up with files named
f1234567890.mpg or similar. If these files have no meta data stored in
them you need to look at all of them to figure out what's in them.

Secondly the files may contain errors from non-recoverable sectors. You
will only find out once you watch them in full and then your movie night
ends in an disaster when the video skips somewhere in the middle. I
don't know whether there are tools which can scan the files for such errors.

When I had this problem in the past I finally decided to delete the
whole lot and set everything to rerecord and ripped all my DVD's again.

Thomas