How to Achieve ASF Recovery
About ASF Format
Advanced Systems Format (formerly Advanced Streaming Format, Active Streaming Format) is Microsoft's proprietary digital audio/digital video container format, especially meant for streaming media. ASF is part of the Windows Media framework. ASF is based on serialized objects which are essentially byte sequences identified by a GUID marker.
The format does not specify how (i.e. with which codec) the video or audio should be encoded; it just specifies the structure of the video/audio stream. This is similar to the function performed by the QuickTime, AVI, or Ogg container formats. One of the objectives of ASF was to support playback from digital media servers, HTTP servers, and local storage devices such as hard disk drives.
The most common file types contained within an ASF file are Windows Media Audio (WMA) and Windows Media Video (WMV). Note that the file extension abbreviations are different from the codecs which have the same name. Files containing only WMA audio can be named using a .WMA extension, and files of audio and video content may have the extension.WMV. Both may use the .ASF extension if desired.
We both know ASF is very important for us, but what should we do if ASF files are lost? Take it easy, we can use media files recovery software to perform ASF file recovery. So, let's check out the reasons of ASF files loss.
Reasons of ASF Files Loss
• 'Format error', 'write error', 'read error', 'unknown error' (with the temporary freeze in the screen).
• The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.
• There might be a problem with some data on this device or disc.
• 'memory card error' or ' card cannot be used'
• 'please insert disk to the drive' or 'no files found'
• USB drive not recognized
These error messages may be warnings of the corruption of data. Logical damage (drive is recognized, but video is not accessible) and physical damage (no recognition of drive, normally caused by power interruption or electrostatic discharge) are major reasons for the loss, damage or formatting of the ASFfiles. Since the lost ASF files might be useful for family or business needs, we need to recover them strongly. This moment, our high-efficiency and all-in-one recovery software-uFlysoft Photo Recovery for Win can solve the problem and perform ASF file recovery easily.
Operate ASF Recovery
When you delete ASF files and even empty them from the Recycle Bin, they are not gone forever. Actually such deletion just frees space for other data, whereas the removed file info still remains on the hard drive. If the disk or memory card where the lost ASF files were stored before has been overwritten, you will have little chance to recover them. So it is very necessary to avoid data overwriting. And we can recover deleted AVI files by using uFlysoft Photo Recovery. Here are the solutions.
1. Downloadthis application first, don't worry, it's totally free for downloading. After that, install it on your computer.
2. Launch the program and select your disk or you memory card where your lost ASF files were stored to scan. Then it will scan your drive deeply and completely to seek the lost ASF files.
3. After scanning finished, click the "Recover" button, you will be asked where you want to store the files. DO NOT save the recovered lies to the same path where the lost files were stored before.
After all of these, you will find that achieve ASF recovery is so easy.
Tips
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