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Title: CF wav file recovery
Post by: gmm6797 on March 26, 2006, 12:33:12 PM

(See this thread for more background http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=61949.0)

I had recording issues, so when I got home, had to do the "chkdsk /f/v/x" and it recovered several files.

The main file, 1.4gb, will not open in any WAV player or editor (tried CDwav and Sound Forge8). 

Ran "All Media Fixer" (http://www.realconvert.com/MediaFixer/index.htm) and that completed, but the WAV still wont open.

Anyone else had any success with fixing WAV files?

TIA-Greg

Title: Re: CF wav file recovery
Post by: jcrab66 on March 26, 2006, 01:04:29 PM

have you tried opening as raw wav with cool edit pro? i had a file that wouldnt open with any of the other soft i had including soundforge but it opened with cep, you might give that a try

Title: Re: CF wav file recovery
Post by: gmm6797 on March 26, 2006, 01:51:58 PM

No I have not, I will have to grab a copy and try it out.

Thanks!

Title: Re: CF wav file recovery
Post by: gewwang on March 26, 2006, 02:10:35 PM

Here's the instructions Craig T gave to help me get the raw file opened in wavelab:

http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=45533.msg585913#msg585913

Title: Re: CF wav file recovery
Post by: gmm6797 on March 26, 2006, 04:24:50 PM

I will give that a try, but I am not optomistic yet, a the file wont even open in other apps... so I hope I can at least open it in Audition.  Thanks George!

Title: Re: CF wav file recovery
Post by: gmm6797 on March 27, 2006, 01:35:42 AM

Quote from: gewwang on March 26, 2006, 02:10:35 PM

Here's the instructions Craig T gave to help me get the raw file opened in wavelab:
http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=45533.msg585913#msg585913

Being a heavy soundforge users, Audition is new to me.  Can anyone point me to a tutorial or something?

Also, when opening the file as a raw file, there is no choice for a 24 bit file, 8, 16 or 32... is this normal?

My file is 24 bit, 44.1

Title: Re: CF wav file recovery
Post by: gewwang on March 27, 2006, 08:07:39 AM

Quote from: gmm6797 on March 27, 2006, 01:35:42 AM

Quote from: gewwang on March 26, 2006, 02:10:35 PM

Here's the instructions Craig T gave to help me get the raw file opened in wavelab:
http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=45533.msg585913#msg585913

Being a heavy soundforge users, Audition is new to me.  Can anyone point me to a tutorial or something?

Also, when opening the file as a raw file, there is no choice for a 24 bit file, 8, 16 or 32... is this normal?

My file is 24 bit, 44.1

Sorry, forgot to mention that I didn't use Audition. I was able to follow Craig's steps using Cool Edit Pro v1.2.

Title: Re: CF wav file recovery
Post by: gmm6797 on March 28, 2006, 11:43:38 PM

Just to wrap this thread up, the Cool Edit 2.1 pro (foind from BT sites) worked correctly per the link sent above.

I had to use the 2 channel, save it raw, convert it back to 24 BIT PCM file and all is well.

Thanks for the help everyone!