help recovering data from external hdd?

[shateredsoul]

of course

.. xp is still scanning the harddrive. It's going by very slowly, I'll post the outcome and the name of the program if it's successful or if any of the other programs work.

[mal_conductor]

testdisk and photorec work well.

Here is a solution to get around the random file naming (last section of my notes).
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=5...4e75f6e8ebb871