Getdata back...weird stuff goin on...

hey guys, i recently recovered some files on my windows xp with the program GetDataBack for NTFS. i recovered many documents AND a lot of music files. however, when i play the music files, its just a chopped up version of many other songs. for example, the file of the song "Adagio for Strings" by DJ tiesto plays a portion of Dido, a bit of linkin park, then goes on to play some immortal technique. when i open the documents, it says the file cannot open and it has to use some other encoding and whatnot. i have no idea whats going on, so if anyone has an idea, or had this happen to them, any help would be apprediated. my number one concern is, can i return the files back to the original format? as in, have adagio for strings ACTUALLY play adagio for strings? thanks in advance

 

thanks definitely strange.

never really heard of that.

those files have hashes while being recovered.... so cross file mixing is strange

as for files that cant be opened... that can be if there is some data corruption after the files were lost.... like putting new files into the drive in question after losing the data.

try to play/use the files onto another computer

 

i think all the music files and movie files may have been corrupted, because some data was added to the hard drive by accident. if thats the case, i guess the data stored on the disc is like that and unrecoverable to original format . thanks for all your help though, gophn, in these tough times...hehe

 

A simple case of file corruption. Happens most of the time when you don't recover deleted files immediately. The best any program can do is recover file names and chunks of data associated with them.