Rescue Data from Camcorder Hard Drive

The well known fact about Camcorder is that it acts as a room for your precious memories. One will get three different types of storage media in Camcorders such as Mini DV tape, DVD and Hard Drive. Apart from these media, in-built Camcorder hard drive offers ample storage capacity to place video recordings, photos, etc. User can share images and videos from Camcorder hard drive to computer with direct and simple connection. Camcorders having built-in hard drive facilitate improvised image / video viewing, efficient recording time of videos, clear editing of pictures, well-organized archiving of data and other related tasks. Therefore, most of users prefer to have hard drive Camcorders to record and preserve their unforgettable events.

The only demerit of the Camcorder hard drive is data loss crises, however it is purely depends on consumer of the devices. As users few unnecessary clicks and mishandling of the device will result in data disasters in Camcorder hard drive. If you stand in a scenario where you have unintentionally deleted files and folders from Camcorder hard drive, then it will be awful. As Camcorder’s hard drive afford more than enough space to save your life time memories, none of the users like this kind of data deletion or loss. You might find various reasons for loss or deletion of videos, images and other files from Camcorder hard drive. Let us discuss some of them:

  • Regrettably, in certain cases you might end up formatting the Camcorder hard drive without your intention. This leads to removal of complete videos, pictures and other data from Camcorder HDD
  • Due to logical conflicts, virus attack or file system corruption in Camcorder hard drive, you may face huge amount of a data loss
  • Improper handling issues like abruptly disconnecting the cable between Camcorder hard disk and the host device while transferring data may tends to loss of data that was under processing

In case you have lost data from Camcorder hard drive, then no need to worry. You have not lost data permanently; still there is an opportunity for restoring erased data from Camcorder hard drive on Macintosh system. Using Yodot Mac Photo Recovery application you can rescue missing data from Camcorder hard drive.

Camcorder hard drive recovery software:

Yodot Mac Photo Recovery tool provides simple and convenient process to get back erased or missing data from Camcorder hard drive on Mac system. It can extract photos, videos, audios and other media files from Camcorder HD instantly without modifying original contents. This software even restores wide variety of picture files (JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, PDSTIF, BMP, IMG, WEBP, etc.), video files (MP4, M4V, MOV, AVI, AVCHD, AVS, etc.), audios (MP3, M4A, WAV, MIDI, etc) and other files from various storage devices. In addition, you can also retrieve RAW image files like NEF, 3FR, RAF, CRW, ARW, SRW, MOS, ORF, ARI, MEF and so on from all brands of DSLR cameras. Along with Camcorders, one can recover media files from digital cameras, mobile phones, computers, laptops, iPods, Notebook, etc on Mac system installed with Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion operating system.

Steps to get back data from Camcorder hard drive:

  • Connect your affected hard disk Camcorder to Mac system and wait until it gets detected
  • Download the Yodot Mac Photo Recovery software and install the software that Macintosh machine by login as a system admin
  • Setup this utility and follow to the main screen guidelines
  • Select any of two options “Deleted Photo Recovery” or Lost Photo Recovery” to retrieve deleted or missing video recording from Camcorder hard disk
  • The program displays all the partitions and externally connected drives on the Mac system
  • Choose the external drive that denotes your Camcorder hard drive and click on “Next” button
  • The application deeply scans the Camcorder hard disk drive and displays all the erased or lost data from it
  • Mark the required files and folders, which you want to regain back
  • Afterwards save the rescued pictures and video files to your desired location, but not to the same Camcorder hard disk

Tips to be consider:

  • Confirm twice before deleting unnecessary files and folders from Camcorder hard drive
  • Be attentive while performing format operation in Camcorder HDD
  • Stay away from storing new data on Camcorder hard drive after data loss
  • Try to eject the Camcorder hard drive from host device to avoid unnecessary logical errors

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