corrupted mp3

[knutrockney77]

Hello all, new to the board! I recently discovered an old hard drive of mine I had put away when my laptop fried. For some reason when I put it away I formatted it...figured I wouldnt need anything on there. Now im curious to see what was on it, so I downloaded ActiveBoot, which has a file recovery program. After running the in depth scan it found all of my old files. Heres the tricky part, I transfered the files I wanted to an external media since the hard drive is old and slow. When I try to play the files, they come up as unknown/corrupted. I used Gspot and it came up with unknown. Is there any program out there that can help me? Or am I not transferring the files right from the hard drive? Thank You

[TJohns]

Just because the recovery program found something it thought it recognised (maybe just an old filename) and attached some data it found to that file (not necessarily the right data) doesn't mean you'll get back what you started with. If the files were fragmented beforehand (quite likely), the formatting would have removed all traces of how to put them back in the right order.