Travel

Three Months of European Travel Footage Almost Lost
Repairit Brought It Back

How we restored 500GB of travel videos and saved our once-in-a-lifetime footage with Repairit

Sophie & Daniel Foster

Travel Bloggers

Germany

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Repairit Real User Story

We're Sophie & Daniel Foster, Travel Bloggers based in Germany. We spent three unforgettable months filming across Europe, capturing 5.1K drone shots over the Swiss Alps, Paris sunset time-lapses, and underwater GoPro clips in Santorini. Every moment felt once-in-a-lifetime. But in Italy, Daniel accidentally dropped our external hard drive containing all 500GB of footage. It wouldn't mount, made clicking noises, and every laptop showed invalid errors. Our hearts dropped. Panic set in until we discovered Wondershare Repairit. Using batch repair, we restored nearly everything within hours and felt nothing but relief.

Sophie & Daniel Foster

Travel Bloggers

Germany

Video File Damage Situation

Challenge

We realized something was wrong the moment the external hard drive hit the stone walkway outside our Airbnb in Venice. When we plugged it in, it made repetitive clicking sounds and wouldn't mount on any of our devices. Disk Utility and Windows Explorer both failed to recognize it, and the occasional “drive needs to be formatted” warning made our stomachs sink. The footage included 5.1K MP4 drone videos, 4K GoPro underwater shots, and 3,000 photos— content we could never recreate. With sponsors expecting deliverables and a YouTube audience waiting for the premiere, losing it meant losing three months of work, income, and momentum. Time wasn’t on our side.

Solution

After searching for recovery options, we found a local data recovery lab, but the €2,500 quote was impossible for us. While researching alternatives, we discovered Wondershare Repairit could repair corrupted video files directly, even if the drive was partially readable. We managed to extract the damaged files to a secondary SSD and loaded all 850+ videos into Repairit. The interface guided us step-by-step, and we added a sample 5.1K MP4 clip from our DJI Mavic 3 Pro to help rebuild missing structures. Previewing the first repaired drone clip from Interlaken felt surreal—the colors, motion, and clarity were exactly as we remembered. That preview gave us hope we weren't expecting to feel again.

Results

The Relief of Seeing Europe Come Back to Life on Our Screens

We felt pure relief wash over us when the repaired previews finally appeared. Repairit recovered more than thousands of videos and photos with no noticeable quality loss. The Interlaken drone sequences, Santorini underwater clips, and our Paris time-lapses were all intact.