How to Recover Deleted Videos from Olympus Cameras?

Theo Lucia

Aug 04, 2023 • Filed to: Photo/Video/Audio Solutions • Proven solutions

This is one of the many queries that I have recently come across from people who have lost their videos from Olympus cameras. While Olympus is a well-known brand for cameras and camcorders, chances are that your videos might get lost due to numerous reasons. Don't worry – with some smart tips, you can easily restore lost videos from your Olympus camera. Without any ado, let's learn how to recover deleted videos from Olympus cameras right here.

Before we learn how to recover deleted videos from Olympus cameras, it is important to identify some common reasons behind this issue. This would help you know more about the issue and avoid it from happening in the future.

• Deleted the video by mistake: Chances are that you would have pressed the delete button while watching or selecting a video on your camera. This is a common human error, and it can easily be rectified by using any recovery tool.

• Camera physically damaged: Your Olympus video camera can also undergo any unwanted wear and tear. If the camera has been damaged by water, magnet, or anything else, then it can end up deleting its stored videos.

• Insufficient power: Were you recording a video when there was not enough power on your Olympus camera? If your camera has been turned off before you were able to save the video, then it can become inaccessible. This would need the help of a dedicated recovery tool to extract inaccessible videos from your camera.

• Unexpected power spike: While charging your Olympus camera, if there was an unexpected power spike or interference, then it can also harm its circuit or storage. It can even entirely wipe the storage of your video camera.

• Weak WiFi signal: This usually happens in smart cameras that are connected to the cloud. If the camera is not connected to a stable connection, then the recorded videos or synced data might get lost.

• IP address or connectivity conflict: Besides that, there could be an issue with your camera's network connection, USB cable, power supply, etc. that can cause this issue.

• IR Cut Filter: While recording a video, your camera's screen can go black at night due to a faulty IR cut filter. In this case, you should consider getting your camera fixed from a reliable Olympus service center.

As you can see, there can be all kinds of reasons for losing your videos from an Olympus camera. Though, most of these situations can be resolved by following these fixes.

Solution 1: Use A Professional Video Recovery Software 

The best way to restore your deleted, inaccessible, or lost videos is by using a dedicated data recovery tool like Wondershare Recoverit Video Recovery. The DIY recovery tool has an inbuilt video recovery solution that is known to yield one of the best results in the industry.

To know how to recover deleted videos from Olympus cameras, you can just follow these instructions:

Step 1: Select a target location and start the enhanced recovery

At first, you can just connect your Olympus camera or its SD card from where you lost your videos to the system. Now, launch Wondershare Recoverit on your computer and select the "Enhanced Recovery" feature from the bottom panel.

To proceed, the application will ask you to select the target location to scan. Here, you can select the drive of the connected Olympus camera or its SD card. Besides that, you can also select a video format to look for (that would save time in scanning).

Step 2: Wait as Recoverit would look for your lost videos

Once you click on the "Start" button, you can just sit back and wait for a while for the process to be completed. Since the Enhanced Recovery will scan the source 2-3 times, it might take a while for the process to be completed entirely.

The application will implement a unique algorithm to look for various video fragments and would merge them to get superior recovery results.

Step 3: Preview your videos and restore them

After completing the enhanced recovery process, the application will let you know. You can now use the inbuilt filters or go to various categories to look for the recovered video. On the native interface of Recoverit, you can also get a preview of the videos that are recovered from your camera or SD card.

That's it! You can now click on the "Recover" button to save the extracted videos. As a browser window would be launched, you can choose to export the video to any location. I would recommend saving your videos to a reliable location on your system and not the same SD card from where you lost them.

By following this simple drill, your lost, deleted, or inaccessible videos could easily be recovered from your Olympus camera.

Solution 2: Run the CHKDSK Utility with Command Prompt

If you have lost your videos from your SD card due to a bad sector or a logical error, then you can use the CHKSDK command. The Check Disk command can be used to repair numerous logical issues with any partition or location. Though the command utility can only be used to fix minor issues with your SD card, and it can't fix severely corrupted data.

Here's how to recover deleted videos from Olympus cameras with the help of the native Check Disk utility command.

Step 1: Launch the Command Prompt on your Windows PC

Simply unmount the SD card from your Olympus camera and connect it to your Windows PC. Now, go to the Start menu from the taskbar, open the Run prompt, and enter the "cmd" command.

This will automatically launch the Command Prompt as an administrator on your system.

Step 2:  Use the CHKDSK command to repair the SD card

Once the Command Prompt's window is opened, just type the "chkdsk" command followed by the drive letter of your SD card.

For instance, if the SD card is identified as E: drive, then you can enter the following command:

Chkdsk e: /f /r /x

Here, /f, /r, and /x are different parameters that are used to fix logical issues, corrupt sectors, and invalid functions on the respective drive.

Simply press Enter after typing the command and wait for a while as the application would scan the SD card of your camera and fixes it seamlessly.

Solution 3: Restore Videos from your SD Card's Cache Data

You might already know that cache is the temporary data that is used to fasten up the overall processing of the device. Therefore, chances are that your Olympus camera could have stored a video (or its snippet) as cache.

To restore data from its cache, you can first remove the SD card from your Olympus camera and connect it to your computer or an Android device. Once the SD card is detected, you can go to its Storage > Data and look for a "Cache" folder.

Here, you can look for any segment of a recorded video (in encrypted formats or as "com" prefixes). Afterward, you can copy the video to any safe location on

your system and rename it to a compatible video format like MP4 or MOV. You can also use a repairing tool to fix the video snippet from here.

Conclusion

There you go! I'm sure that after following this guide on how to recover deleted videos from Olympus cameras, you could have restored your lost videos. At first, you should try to understand what could have caused an unwanted loss of your videos and take the needed steps to fix it. Though, using a data recovery tool (like Wondershare Recoverit Data Recovery) would be an all-in-one solution to restore your videos. Since it is a DIY application, you can follow it as per your requirements to restore deleted videos from numerous sources.