Data Recovery and Disk Utilities Forum @R-TT

Hi, I was hoping that someone could tell me if there is a way that R-Studio can detect the file type of recovered files.

I have successfully restored files from a dead drive but they are all named as .chk files. Most of the files are JPG and video files (i think) so I renamed them all to .jpg and was able to use the view as thumbnails option in Windows explorer to weed them out. I still have quite a few files that don't seem to be the .jpg format, or perhaps they are just corrupt.

I've notice within R-Studio File View window that some of the files I right-click on will let me preview them if they are audio or video files. If R-Studio is able to let me preview a these files as the correct file type, even if they are named with the wrong extension, I'm thinking that there should be away to have it auto-determine the file type for some types of files. Or perhaps a 3rd party tool might exist that can examine the files to determine the type.

Does anyone have an experience with this? Is there a way to do this within R-Studio, or perhaps some other piece of software that might help determine the file type?

Thanks for you help!

Files with the .chk extension are created by Windows program chkdsk that "repairs" corrupt file systems. Renaming them to any other extension will not do anything good.