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  1. The files are on the Drobo volume. The volume consists of 5 hard drives. But, Drobo makes those 5 hard drives look like one. So, to the computer, Drobo is one very large hard drive. I'm sure you already know that... but, just stating incase you weren't familiar with Drobo. So, I'm doing the recovery off the whole volume, not an individual drive. So, using one file as an example, the file is 1.5GB. I see it using RECUVA. I restore it. The restore file is still 1.5GB, same as the original. When I go to play it, it says the file is unplayable. If I look at the header, its all zeros. The file system on the Drobo volume is NTFS. I've also tried multiple different players, and no go. To me, it seems like the recovered files are no good, but I can't figure out why. If its the way Drobo stores files? or the way RECUVA restores files. Just baffles me. I attached a screenshot of GOM player when I try to play the file.
  2. Yep... just tried like 4 different apps to repair the headers, and no go. Really weird. Nothing was done to the drive. They were just deleted. They can be restores, and the file looks intact (file name, location, file size), but they seem corrupt in some sense. I wonder if its the fact that its a Drobo drive that causes this. Thank for the info, though.
  3. I am attempting to recover video files that were accidentally deleted on my Drobo drive. Using a Drobo 5N, there were a few hundred home video files, family events and such, and the folder holding files was accidentally deleted. Due to the size of the folder, Windows skips the recycle bin and does a permanent delete. In the past, I've used the program RECUVA to find and restore such files, but I've never done it on a Drobo. So, now, using RECUVA, I run it on the Drobo, and upon scanning it sees all my video files without issue. When I proceed to do the restore, it will restore successfully. When I try to play the video files it recovered, they will not play. Says the MP4 files are unplayable. I've used GOM Player and VOB Player, with no luck. So, its not a codec issue, because these played here fine before deleting. So... my question is... does it have something to do with Drobo? Is the recovery of deleted files on Drobo different, hence not making it possible? Or, is there some other way I can try to recover these files that I do see in recovery scans, and I haven't overwritten the drive sectors?
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