Q: I have recovered a file, but I cannot open it.

In some cases, files recovered by using Photo Recovery cannot be opened properly. Especially, large files such as MPEG files and other media files often run into this problem. Please consider the following points:

Damaged Files

When a file was deleted, it could also be damaged by another file, overwriting, disk defragmentation, virus attack, or hacking activity.

Fragmented File

Some large files are saved in discrete locations because they cannot be allocated in contiguous Hard Disk space. When one of these files is deleted, recovery can be very difficult. Even though the file's start location is available, the location information of other fragments is usually lost.