Anyway to save a Fragmented Red Mag?

[James Poremba]

Hey all, a troubleshoot question -

shot some stuff on the Dragon last night, when I went to offload, the reader disconnected during the start of transfer, and when I put the mag back in footage was not playable anymore. I put it back into the camera and it says the mag is fragmented and needs to be formatted. The mag reads on the computer but every clip name is scrambled and cannot play. Is there anyway I can recover or repair this card to retrieve the data? I would really not like to reshoot any of it hah

Thanks for any and all help,

James

 

[Burke Doeren]

Try using RED Undead to read the clips off your redmag and save them to another drive on your computer.

https://www.red.com/downloads/4f56854d6261f95a5700067b

If that doesn't work, reach out to your bomb squad rep and see if they can help.

Best of luck!

 

[James Poremba]

Hey Burke, RED Undead worked like a charm. Recovered all data without incident! Thanks for the help and link, really appreciated!

James

 

[David Battistella]

also,

It might be good to run a secure format (from the format menu) on all your mags as this helps defray them.

 

[Terry VerHaar]

also,

It might be good to run a secure format (from the format menu) on all your mags as this helps defray them.

This seems like a really terrific tip. I didn't know that nut you can bet I'll check it out! Thanks.

 

[Paul Russell]

I have a 256GB Red Mag that causes crashes, lost takes and hangs when it tries to write to certain sectors on it. A Secure Format doesn't fix that.