What you need is a program that will search through the files and looking at the
headers and extract the files. There is a program that can do this and it will
search for the headers of various image formats amongst others. It called Ripper,
and you can get it at:

http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~til/ripper5.html

Hope this helps, and good luck.

Cheers, Matthew


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

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