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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	In short this is what the problem is: A hard disk lost a great deal of its data. Trying to recover it, revealed that there was no file structure left for that data. I wasn't able to rebuild the file tree, so i did a thorough surface scan for files, instructing the software i'm using to only recover the files that were still uncorrupted. Of course this is not very effective, as it does not let me see beforehand if the files i'm recovering are of any interest, and has left me with lots of directories filed with undated files named, for example, file00001.zip to file005501.zip, and the same for other file types. Even though i'm only trying to undelete uncorrupted files, along with these came a lot of duplicate files, corrupt files and files with wrong file type extension. The duplicates, i took care of. Now i need a way of detecting wrong file type extension (as in .jpg instead of .zip, for example), or detecting if a file, for example a .zip, is a corrupt .zip, without having to open every single file. I want to know if anyone knows of software (freeware preferably), that recognizes file type signatures, and checks for mismatch or corruption. Irfan View, for example, partially does this but i don't think it's automatizable. Thanks in advanced, Sarah [i]~this is not a signature~[/i] [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/1639]Arthemis[/url] on 06-24-2006 16:24)[/small] Loading...
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