“I love skydiving and I always hold my GoPro Hero camcorder to capture the action in HD quality video. Recently I went for Skydive and recorded the event with my GoPro camcorder, Later I found that memory card on GoPro camcorder was corrupt. Now all the video files from GoPro camcorder are out of my reach. It will be very helpful if someone can suggest me how to recover videos from GoPro Camcorder with ease?”
Many people love to skydive and among them most of the people record the event using high resolution action camcorders like GoPro Hero. GoPro Hero is among the best camcorder models, which provides HD quality video even at great heights. This amazing action camera is capable of capturing videos at 1080 pixels inside water and it also captures 5 megapixel photos in single shot, burst and time lapse. It automatically adjusts optical performance in low light, long lasting battery of 2.5 hours duration, QuikCapture functionality and many more. But videos and pictures from GoPro Hero camcorder are still prone to get erased or lost in scenarios like mentioned below:
- Memory card corruption: File system damage, malware attack, recording video on low battery or no free space on memory card will damage the card severely, making GoPro Hero camera video files out of users’ reach
- Unintentional deletion: Mistakenly deleting important videos from GoPro Hero while trying to remove unwanted files or intrusion of harmful viruses may cause unexpected deletion of any videos from it
- Human mistakes: Wrong handling of memory card like using same card on multiple gadgets, abrupt removal of card during data read / write process will induce video file loss from memory card as it becomes inaccessible
But no need to panic or get worried about lost videos and other media files from GoPro Hero Camcorder as there are many auspicious online programs that assist for video recovery without much effort.
GoPro Hero camcorder video recovery program:
As per data recovery experts, Yodot Photo Recovery is the excellent utility to get back videos from GoPro Hero on Windows computer. Built with read-only recovery modules this tool can retrieve videos of file types – MPEG, MP4, MPG, MOV, AVI, ALE, BIK, BDM and so on. Apart from GoPro Hero, this program can effortlessly restore videos from Samsung HMX-F90, Pentax K7, Sony DCR, Panasonic SDR and other camcorder models. In addition, one can rescue other media files like audio files using this software. It successfully retrieves media files erased or missing from system hard drive, flash memory cards, portable hard disk, SSD, USB flash drive and other storage devices compatible on Windows. It can be used on Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2008 and 2003 OS based desktops and laptops to get back media files.
Required steps to restore videos from GoPro Hero camcorder:
- Connect storage device of GoPro Hero camcorder to Windows computer using proper cable / adapter
- Download Yodot Photo Recovery tool on this machine and install it
- Launch the tool according to given instructions and wait for main screen to get displayed
- Choose ‘Deleted Photo Recovery’ or ‘Lost Photo Recovery’ option based on video file loss from GoPro Hero camcorder storage memory
- Then choose the drive that represents storage media for GoPro Hero camera from where video files are lost
- Proceeding further, choose the video file types to recover from GoPro Hero or click on ‘Mark All’ to retrieve all files
- Now, software scans selected drive to rescue video files within little time span
- When scanning completes, view recovered video files in Data View or File Type View
- At last, save these videos to new destination location on host computer hard drive or to any other external storage drive
Necessary Tips:
- Do not delete any videos from GoPro Hero camcorder without proper confirmation
- Hold backup of important videos from GoPro Hero camcorder to avoid unexpected video loss
