Sony HDR-SR10 recorded file structure?

skier-hughes · Post by **skier-hughes** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 10:59 am

Can someone with a Sony HSR-SR10 or equivalent model give me some help with how this cam writes files to it's HDD, particularly in HD mode.

My Dad has one.

We sent my parents to Rome for a 5* luxury holiday for their Golden Wedding, and he came back and deleted all the files

I've managed to recover what I think is all of them, 38.7Gb froma 40gb drive.

But either they are all corrupt or I haven't quite got it right, as I can't play/edit/convert any of the files.

I phoned Sony, great help, here's what happened
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorial ... order.html

So, if someone doesn't mind telling me waht sort of files they end up with and how they are written to the hdd this may help me out.

My recovery has left me with over 600 .rm files, that I assume are the mp4 clips that the cam generates, but after that I'm at a loss.

Many thanks,

Graham

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 4:35 am

I don't have a hard drive camcorder but will throw the following suggestion in which you could consider as a last resort if no one can come up with anything better. Also because I don't have a hard drive camcorder it might not even be possible to do - I don't know - its just educated guess work based upon the assumption that the hard drive in a hard drive camcorder isn't any different from a hard drive in a computer.

1. Make an image of the camcorders hard drive.
I am thinking here of programs like Norton Ghost, Acronis True Image or a drive copy program to make an exact replica of the hard drive onto another.

If you can do the above then we have a little bit of flexibility available.
What I would do next is

2. Tinker about with the extracted copy so that you are not making any further changes to the hard drive inside the camcorder. You can then make further clones if required to tinker even further.

3. If you are still stuck, then armed with a fresh clone copy so that you can return it back to the camcorder if necessary, format the hard drive in the camcorder and shoot some film. This will then reveal the structure of how the camcorder arranges things. You can then examine the cloned copy again for possible answers.

Like I said, I don't have a hard drive camcorder and so don't know if its possible to clone one. Just a bit of thinking on my feet which may or may not help.

skier-hughes · Post by **skier-hughes** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 9:49 am

I hadn't thought of cloning, will look into it and see, as have to make sure that nothing gets written to it.
My Dad's bring over the sony picture motion browser software, which I'm hoping with give me the codec to play these files........

Ta,

Graham