Data Recovery after film shoot SanDisk extreme pro 4tb

Data Recovery of Film Footage

It's a nightmare and really stressful to the crew, especially the director, DOP and producer. If you have a good DIT on set they can normally recover footage without you ever knowing it was temporarily lost.
SanDisk extreme pro 2tb / 4tb have reported issues around the time of publishing this article.
Samsung T5 / T7's is reportedly a better option.

Some useful places to start if you want to try and recover data yourself for free.

Disk Drill seems to recover all the simple things like partitions. Mac/Windows free/Pro versions.

Ease US is also available Mac/Windows free/Pro versions.

SanDisk Download page for Sandisk Rescue Pro. Mac version, there's a link on same page for Windows.


Warning
Read all the instructions first before proceeding at your own risk.


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