due to some problems with bad-ram and partitionmagic i had an entire drive's worth of files become corrupt. i ran chkdsk and it recovered ALL of the files as .chk . and i've verified that at least some of these files are still fine by identifying them by their size and changing the extension to what i think it would be. the problem is there are over 20,000 of these files, and some of their extensions are not so obvious. i've ran chkdsk, norton, etc. to see if they could do anything to make it easier, but with no luck. does anyone know of a program that can figure out what the file extensions are, at least for the more common file extension? any help would be GREATLY appreciated. otherwise its all by myself using trial and error on every single file.

or even something that can turn every file in the folder to a certain extension, so i can get a good amount out of the way. just ANYTHING, PLEASE!!! :*(

ren *.chk *.dll will change everything to the *.dll extention. You would have an easier time if you just re-installed everything.

If u install 'QuickView Plus' it will attempt to view all ur files (only one at a time of course) as it can view 100's of diff ones. At least this will show all the common text/spreadsheet/pix etc files. Hopefully these are the only ones ur'll want to save anyway !! I realise this is gonna take ages, but I hope this helps !!

thanks. both suggestions have helped a lot. thus far i've gotten it down to half of what i started with.