Formatted My Hard Drive?

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murihikukid View Member Profile	Jan 15 2005, 10:10 PM Post #1
New Member Group: Members Posts: 5 Joined: 27-December 04 Member No.: 7,994	Hi..I accidently formatted my secondary hard drive... I have tryed 5 of the recognised top recovery programs....with partial success....to recover my files ....However after each program tryed ....I find all my MP3,s are now Mpgs in content ....IE..I play an mp3 and I get scambled video footage....????? Is this a common occurrance and is there a fix for this..... Also my Wordpad Documents content have turned into what I believe is "computer language".... Any comments on the above would be sincerely appreciated... Thanks Ron NZ.

Leurgy View Member Profile	Jan 16 2005, 01:12 AM Post #2
Voted most likely Group: Members Posts: 3,675 Joined: 19-September 04 From: Collingwood, Ontario, Canada Member No.: 2,883	Rename what is now .mpg to .mp3 by right clicking and selecting rename. Windows might complain but ignore the warning. Try one, it should work. Could be the same with your wordpad documents. Check to make sure the file extension is .doc. This post has been edited by Leurgy: Jan 16 2005, 08:47 PM -------------------- ** We use our powers for good, not evil ** When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail. Abraham Maslo

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