To Ro wrote at 2013-06-15 12:14 -0500: > I started testing one of the recovered files, with a binary file editor can > se a long sequence of zeros at the very beginning of it, took some > precautions, and here is what I see > > ls -lh > total 5.8G > -r-------- 1 xyz xyz 5.8G Jun 14 17:52 inode_17000 > > tried gunzip, djview, tar -x, mplayer, etc, thinking of the possible files > that I had of that size. Nothing comes up. If the data is compressed, it will probably not be understood by anything other than gunzip, and even not that if there is not a proper header. You probably will not see anything familiar in the file (nor will any other reader/viewer) without somehow decompressing it. Perhaps you could find out what a gzip header looks like and search for it at the beginning of the recovered files or on the NTFS filesystem. Note that I can not provide more than a little help from here on, I am familiar with no more than (or less than) the basics of data recovery. <http://www.gzip.org/recover.txt>
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