

We receive a lot of customer hard drives suffering from electrical issues. Most video files are stored on a hard drive, flash card, or perhaps a gaming console or media server, but the majority will be on a hard disk. These are logical failures, physical damage, and mechanical faults. There are three main causes of video corruption.

Video file corruption is caused by bad sectors on the hard drive or storage media, failed hard drives, or failed mechanical components inside the hard drive.Our engineers know that there are many reasons behind any severely corrupted video file, and there are many scenarios that can cause damage to the video file format. Some of the video repair scenarios we have recovered include precious home family videos, CCTV footage for criminal investigations, and a whole host of urgent files for our clients, such as AVI video files, corrupt MP4 video, MOV video files, digital cameras, and digital multimedia container format (MP4/MOV) with a broken video file extension. We have recovered hours of corrupted MP4 video files and videos of virtually any file format. Gillware data recovery experts have repaired videos for our clients from damaged and corrupted media. The bigger the file, the higher the chance of the file suffering corruption. A typical movie downloaded from an internet streaming service like Netflix is around 4 GB in size, but if you have transferred content from a video camera or if you download larger file-size movies, the files can be huge depending on the format and resolution the movie was filmed at.

Video files are usually much larger than other files you may have. The corruption of a video file occurs in the same way any other file on your computer may become corrupt.
