First, I appreciate free software, and was even going to donate $ if all my files were recovered correctly. However, 30 Gb's worth of music and photos were recovered in completely unusable condition. Hopefully someone can help me out here.
The mp3's are snippets of random songs. For example, an mp3 will have a file name "Frank Sinatra - New York New York" and be the right file size, but when you play the song it'll play some Metallica song for a while, then it'll change to some hip hop song, and on and on. Picture files won't even open anymore, and in fact the picture files recovered all have the right file names, but apparently only contain a few hundred Kbs of information.
What I'd really like to do now is undo whatever Recuva did to my computer so I can give it a try with another program. I was hoping this would work because paying for recovery would be VERY expensive (the first program I tried would've charged me more than $700 for 30 Gb's worth of recovery!). If anybody's had this problem and fixed it somehow, PLEASE help me out. I have about 70% of my pictures backed up on DVD's and whatever music I have on my Ipod, but I'd dearly love to have everything back the way it was. Thanks for any help.
