Hi all, I had a 40 gig hard drive develop bad sectors last year and ended up being unusable. I recovered the data with Media Tools Pro to another drive, but the extensions on all the files were changed! Is there a good program I can use that will read the file types by looking at the beginning of the file (the header) and (hopefully) changing the extension to match them? Btw, all the filenames were changed too. So it's just thousands of files that no longer make sense. Some are music recording projects around 500 megs that I'd like to keep, but I can't distinguish all the files from one another. I've tried renaming the large files with common extensions for cd images, Cakewalk SONAR bundle files, rars, zips, etc, but none of them work, and there are simply too many to try this with. I tried a few hex editors, but it's really tough to figure out what they are from that. Please help! :) Thanks in advance! -Eric

Try this app out, I've never used it personally, but it looks like what you need: http://dracuul.tripod.com/fileid/ Hope this helps.

Cool, the screenshots look like what I need. I'll try this out now. thanks! -Eric

Well it worked alright, but I don't know. I followed the directions and tried the different command line switches and all, but it just says 'binary file type' and that's about it. I didn't think I had that many non-standard files on here. Hmmm.. Any other software like this? Thanks, -Eric