The media drive that I keep all my DVD files on recently somehow erased itself. I never made it back up of this hard drive since I still own all the DVDs that have been ripped onto the drive and assume worst case scenario that I would reimport all the disks if the enevitable happened. Now that it has, I am really regretting this decision as it will take a few days if not a week to reimport all my DVDs.
I've tried using data rescue to recover the files, and it does seem to recover the files; however it does not recognize the .dvdmedia format as a single file. Instead, all it does is recover the individual files of the dvd folder and put them in one large directory, completely breaking any attempts of recovering a single DVD and just giving me a bunch of random files in one folder. This makes recovery completely impossible as far as I can tell. Is there any way to recover these files properly in their original folder structure? The drive is not been reformatted, there are no errors on the drive, the only thing is the drive files were somehow erased. So the data should be easily recoverable but I need to figure out how to recover the directories correctly. Any way to do this?
Thanks!
I've tried using data rescue to recover the files, and it does seem to recover the files; however it does not recognize the .dvdmedia format as a single file. Instead, all it does is recover the individual files of the dvd folder and put them in one large directory, completely breaking any attempts of recovering a single DVD and just giving me a bunch of random files in one folder. This makes recovery completely impossible as far as I can tell. Is there any way to recover these files properly in their original folder structure? The drive is not been reformatted, there are no errors on the drive, the only thing is the drive files were somehow erased. So the data should be easily recoverable but I need to figure out how to recover the directories correctly. Any way to do this?
Thanks!