501 0 Posted August 31, 2007 So I had someone else's customer call me for some assistance with the stand alone NLDVR376. They need some video extracted off it and there is no Burner, USB Drive or memory stick slot. So I took the unit home, removed the removable HDD and set it to slave and inserted it into my pc (I have a removeable bay). The disk could not be read and windows wanted to initialize it. I choose yes, and now the disk has come up as unsed in my PC and when I put it back into the DVR it says that the disk is empty. Yes, I made a mistake here. Now I have a professional copy of Easy Recovery Pro which is able to read this disk and I should be able to remove the files from it, but the machine says that the files are all jpg's and .cur files (about 20 jpg's per .cur file). Since the DVR uses wavelet compression, I think that the video was made up of .jpg's that are able to be linked together by the cur files. Am I screwed now? Anyone been through this or have any ideas? After this, I sure like how easy back ups are on a PC system. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
501 0 Posted August 31, 2007 So I can recover thousands of jpgs, and when I restored them, I couldn't see anything on the computer. Some of the jpg's are small (15k) and others are large (69mb). I tried downloading a .jpg codec but that didn't help. Just need o view the files now, and hen I can find exactly what I need from there. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rory 0 Posted August 31, 2007 well if you have jpegs and can see them, as an image, and they are all the same widths and heights .. i can join them for you .. or just slap them in a program which will load each one from a folder and you can at least view them like they are a video Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
501 0 Posted August 31, 2007 Haha, thanks a million Rory, unfortunatley, the jpgs can't be viewed either. I have 10,000 jpg's ranging from 5k to 100MB, but can't open any of them. I just got off the phone with Tech support and they said that the only way to back up the files is to VCR. Why would anyone sell a system like this? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Scruit 0 Posted September 19, 2007 Might be worth investing in a GOOD quality USB video/autdio capture card for your laptop. That way you can play back video from any DVR at a client site and record it to your laptop just by hooking into the video out. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
