Videos would be deleted or lost on SD card, hard drive, USB flash drive, digital camera or other devices. It will happen if you are not careful enough or there are some other issues happen on your device. However, if you get the best video recovery software TogetherShare Data Recovery, you can retrieve the lost video files easily. You can download the free trial version to scan and have a test first.

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Common reasons for video file loss

You may encounter data loss and lose video files in different situations. Here we will show you the main issues that will lead to video file loss. For example:

  • Deleted video files by accidental. It’s common to deleted wrong files when you try to clean up drive or delete some unwanted files. It’s easily to deleted some files by mistake if you are not careful enough.
  • Format SD card, drive where the videos located. After formatting the drive/card, you will lose all the data on the device. You may format a wrong device or accidentally and lose the data.
  • File system of device corrupted. If there are some issues with file system, then you will not be able to access the drive directly. Then you will also lose the files in such a case.
  • Cut videos to a place and click Ctrl +Z by mistake. When you move data from one drive to another one, you may lose the data on both drives if you click the Ctrl + Z keys.
  • Partition loss happen and lost videos. Once a partition was deleted or lost, the videos or any other files will also be lost. Then you cannot access the partition and data in system.
  • Operation system crashed. Sometimes, data on the drive would be lost if the operating system is crashed.
  • Unplug external device and cause data loss. If you unplug a drive without ejecting it, especially when you are transfer data, it may cause data loss if you interrupt the process.

Actually, there are some other issues will cause video files lost. For instance, virus infection, human errors, or other unknown issues.


What to do when you lost video file?

If data loss happen and you lost videos on your drive or card, the first thing you need to do is to stop using the device. Please don’t run any other programs to avoid data writing to the same drive/device where you lost the video files. Otherwise, the newly added data will overwritten and damage the lost data on the device.

Also, please don’t do any further changes to the device, like repartition, resize, format, or other operations to the drive. If you make changes to the drive after data loss, it will make the recovery harder or even impossible.

If you are not skillful enough, you may also need a reliable and professional software to recover the deleted/lost videos easily. With a reliable video recovery software, you can scan and rescue the files with ease. TogetherShare Data Recovery is the best software we suggest for you to recover video files in any data loss cases.

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Powerful & easy-to-use video recovery software

Recover lost videos with the data recovery software

Once you lost video files on your device, please don’t be panic. Just stop using the device and then recover the lost data immediately with the best video recovery software. You can follow the guide step by step as below to recover the lost videos.

Step 1. Connect the drive/card and start the video recovery software.

If you lost videos on a drive, card, or USB flash drive, please ensure to connect the correct device to your computer. Then run software and choose the device to scan.

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Step 2. Scan the device to search for the delete/lost video files.

The software will scan the selected drive or card automatically. It will use different methods to analyze and search for the lost video files on the device.

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Step 3. Preview and choose the video files to recover.

The software will show you all the found files, including video files after the scan process is done. You can locate the videos among the found files. Preview and choose the recoverable videos to recover.

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Note: Please ensure to save the recovered files to another drive. Please don’t save the files back to the same drive where you lost data. Otherwise, it will overwrite and damage the files during the process. Then you may lose the video files permanently.


TogetherShare Data Recovery can not only recover video files. Also, the software is able to recover other files, like photos, documents, music files, or any other files. If you lost files in any situations, you can download and have a try with this software to retrieve your lost files. It can help you recover lost data from NTFS, FAT32, ReFS, ExFAT, or other commonly used file systems.

TogetherShare Data Recovery

Powerful & easy-to-use video recovery software

TogetherShare Data Recovery

TogetherShare Data Recovery

Powerful & easy-to-use data recovery software