Expectations for NTFS file recovery

Expectations for NTFS file recovery Yesterday I booted my XP system, and as I looked up a minute later I saw the light blue screen and tail-end of that pre-boot diskcheck Windows sometimes does if it finds an error (or was previously told to run a diskcheck drung the next boot). I didn't worry about it at the moment...
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Guest [Entry]

"on a 750Gb drive, GetDataBack will take an age, but is one of the best out there.

a drive i work with recently lost it's entire partition table for no explicable reason. GDB did a pretty good job of recovering it after several other progs failed."

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"I haven't tried it personally, but a fairly savvy friend of mine had good success (considering the circumstances) recovering nearly 400GB of mostly 2GB+ sized files with NTFS Undelete. It might be worth a try. Convar, the maker of PC INSPECTOR™ File Recovery, is in the business of selling their professional data recovery services -- that alone would make me distrust the software.

As for the file extension strangeness, it appears that the recovery software you are using does attempt to ""guess"" the file's format from the data available."