I was going through some really old stuff and found a VHS tape that once had video footage of my kids. I have a video recorder that hadn’t been used for many years. Would it work if I tried to view the tape. Yes it did but the footage had been recorded over. My question is can the original footage be recovered. I’m not too bothered about the cost I just want the footage as it has some family members who have since passed. I was really surprised that the recorder actually worked after these many years but not as surprised as finding the remote, with the original battery, worked too. It must be some fifteen years since it was last used so the battery still working was a shock. The battery was one of those thin circular disk-type, looking to fit about four hundred of them in my EV ?
Sorry, once it has been recorded over then it’s gone, due to the nature of the media. Digital is completely different but on the old magnetic tape the gaps between each frame recorded are tiny, so anything recovered would just be a shaky white line or two at best. Don’t believe anyone that tells you they can recover stuff as they won’t.