Ken wrote:
> 
> *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


The binary data is probably all there but your FAT has been wiped. I
guess that leaves you with just the data and renaming won't help. _If_
you would succeed in renaming the files to directories you still
wouldn't have your files back, as far as I can see.
The only thing I can think of right now is to open the binaries and see
if you can retrieve your files from there. If you know what type of
files you're looking for you could look up the file format, and search
for specific header data in the filecheck-files. Not an easy task.
Perhaps there is some sort of recovery program. Did you do a websearch
for that?

Meanwhile you have my deepest sympathy. Things like that shouldn't
happen to raytracers (I've had my occasional 'accident' too).

Good luck,

Regards,

Remco

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