*The problem:

    I am the victim of microsofts scandisk program and have had an
entire hard drive wiped out. 20% of the files I could care less about
but the other 80% were image files and many of them irreplacable.
Over 1300 POV-Ray rendered images now lost. I don't have to
tell you people how long it would take to re-render that many scenes.

*What caused it:

    While running scan disk it reported that one copy of the fat file
was not the same as the other. I have had this happen before and went
ahead and allowed it to correct the error. Upon rebooting, this was a
compressed drive, drivespace found an error and started scandisk again.
to make a long story short what I have now is the entire contents
of the compressed drive now stored as files with the name--
filechek.001 filechek.002 ect. It didn't bother seperating the files out
of the directories, Which would have made it easy to just rename the files
and use them, it instead stored the entire directories as file names.


*The solution:

This is where I need your help. Can anybody think of a way to
recover the images from the directories that have been renamed
as files. Is there any way to rename a file so the system will recognize
it as a directory instead. If I could do this then the files would become
accessable again but I have no clue how to do this.
Should I mail bomb Microsoft headquarters and just be satisfied with that ?

Please any and all help would be forever appreciated. Any image you ever
post for evaluation will get a glowing response from me. I will agree with
all the opinions you ever express in this group. Any tips, tricks, leads to
helful information, voodoo remedies, black magic, utility suggestions,
or anything else you can recommend will bring you eternal peace and my
heartfelt thanks.

Thank You for your time and patience.

Ken Tyler

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