Help Recovering RAW files from dead disk

[TxManx]

All -

Okay - I have some sentimental photos that didn't get backed up when my hard drive died... nothing extremely important, but I thought I would use it as an exercise in learning file recovery...

To clarify moving forward, these are Canon Raw, .CR2 files. Canon uses some type of modification from the 'TIFF' standard to store their RAW files.

I've recovered the files, but the application sees them as 'TIFF' files, and appropriately labels them as such. It is apparently not CR2 friendly, but it's what I got because the trial 'found' many more files, erased partitions, etc. on the drive than the others I tried (EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard...)

Sandisk Rescue Pro Deluxe 4 is able to retrieve 'deleted' files / but does not have the ability to look in legacy partition structures or alternate FAT tables.

My problem is that the files don't open as TIFF (because they are not truly TIFF files), but renaming them to .CR2 doesn't resolve the issue either.

Does anyone know what's required to either rebuild the header of the file so it is again a .CR2 file, or strip the header to make it conform to the TIFF standard?

Any help would be appreciated!!!

[bondarnes]

I would send a query to Canon. If they can't help you then I have no clue.

[linque]

Not sure about your TIFF/CR2 issue, but you might want to try SpinRite to recover your files. I haven't had to use it yet, but I've heard glowing reports about it. It's $89.00.

[TxManx]

Thanks, Don... I always consider the vendor to be the last resort...guess I'm there now... hehehe...


Scott - I'll check out Spinrite as well...