Recover MLV files from ExFAT file system after crashed to RAW partition?

Started by ben, August 16, 2015, 09:27:18 PM

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ben

Dear all,

for recording MLV videos I use two Lexar 64GB and 128GB 1066x CF cards with my 5D MkIII camera. All cards are formatted with ExFAT to allow file sizes more than 4GB. ML is nightly build for 5D3.123.

Unfortunately I lost data on both cards as their partition does not exist anymore and is listed as RAW now. With one card I remember that the camera showed "BUSY" and after about two minutes I was afraid that ML had a serios error and therefore removed the battey to protect the camera. With the other card I didn't notice any abnormal behaviour.

As I stopped writing any data to the cards afterwards I was able to recover all jpg and cr2 images without problems. Where I get stuck now is that even after trying various recovery tools I see neither MLV nor a list of DNG files as I read in the forum. Further many recovering tools seem to have problems with the ExFAT layout itself.

Therefore I like to ask if you have any tipps on how to recover the MLV/DNG files or to restore the ExFAT partition?

Thanks a lot in advance,
Ben