Restoring WAV Files

[wasteddays]

Hey everyone,
I'm not really sure if this belongs here, but the other forums that it would fit under better seem to be down, so here it goes...Recently my computer crashed and I lost a lot of files but was able to recover them using a recovery program. However, many of the WAV files I had for projects have been corrupted and parts of tracks have loud static. I am taking my hard drive in to a computer company who says they maybe able to fix it. I also recovered many of the Cubase project files, and some of them work and for some of them I get a pop up that says it is an invalid file, does anyone know why this could be? If anyone has had this same problem before and could help I would greatly apprciate it!!..thank you very much!
Mike

 

[Blue Bear Sound]

I also recovered many of the Cubase project files, and some of them work and for some of them I get a pop up that says it is an invalid file, does anyone know why this could be?

Clearly, while you were able to recover the file (ie, the index to the file), at least a portion of the file's actual content got corrupted (probably overwritten by another file when when the crash occurred).... not much you're going to be able to do except restore them from you backups.... you do keep backups of your data, right? If not, then you just had your first (and likley last!) lesson on why you should be doing backups!

 

[Cloneboy Studio]

A data recovery service can fix that. Expect to pay about 800 bucks.

 

[masteringhouse]

Possibly some of the Norton Utilities can help. As far as trying to restore them with an audio editor, the only way I can see doing this is to cut and paste from parts that are similar if possible.

I'm assuming "static" means digital hash and contains no components of the original audio.

 

[collar]

Hi,

If you do not want to corrup your files during restoration I suppose using reliable and powerful data recovery utilities. Among them I can pose out Active@ undelete and Uneraser (for DOS). Theese are truly mighty tools, their restore algorithm is awesome ann they never failed me before, neither corrupted restored files.

http://www.active-undelete.com/

http://www.uneraser.com/

 

[Ford Van]

Hi,

If you do not want to corrup your files during restoration I suppose using reliable and powerful data recovery utilities. Among them I can pose out Active@ undelete and Uneraser (for DOS). Theese are truly mighty tools, their restore algorithm is awesome ann they never failed me before, neither corrupted restored files.

http://www.active-undelete.com/

http://www.uneraser.com/

Wow, your experience with these apps are opposit of mine. While they restored about 90% of my files just fine, I still had many that were corrupted.