>>1465400>It supposedly has worked but what files it has given me back are unreadable.What do you mean unreadable? I have used it before and it gave me the same type of filenames for the various files on the disk. Of course it cannot have your original pretty filenames such as "I AN LGBTQ HOW DO I GET MORE EXTREME.zip" so don't complain. I read mine just fine. In some cases, I edited a few bytes off with a hex editor but generally, the file tool was excellent at demarcating the start and end of a file. Of course, I was fortunate because I kept my drives defragged, so the fileblocks were all adjacent and in order to each other.
So you have a filename like:
filename001.chk
filename002.chk
filename123.chk
What stops you from opening them with right click "Open With" your fast image display tool such as Irfanview? Or opening with MPC-HC if your files were mostly video files?
Or if you have text files that absolutely must be salvaged, you are going to look for those first by attempting to read each with Notepad and then copying that file to a different drive? Do not write to the same drive anymore. That means no renaming the files like some lazy asshole would do and then coming back to 4chan to complain that the advice was bad. In such a case, doing lazy ass tofu dreg style efforts ruined things, but the person couldn't wait to blame 4chan.
Copy all the files to a different drive. Then "open with" to find out what is inside the files and rename the files on that drive as needed. Irfanview is nice as a fast "open with" tool because if that "fiename123.chk" wasn't an image, it will say it cannot open. Press F3 while in irfanview and it will display the header block hex code for that file. If you see "I AM LGBTQ HOW DO I GET MORE EXTREME.ZIP" then you can rename that file appropriately. If the header says JFIF, then it is prolly an image file with some messed up header bytes so you might try reading it in a different image program.
