Re: how to extract 512 bytes from a file

2004-06-19 Thread Sergey Zaharchenko
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 11:36:04PM -0400, Thomas Farrell probably wrote: I was thinking I could take a working avi and extract the first 512 bytes and insert it into the beginning of a bogus file. Does anyone think this may work? Given the number of compression formats actually hiding under

how to extract 512 bytes from a file

2004-06-18 Thread Thomas Farrell
I am trying to recover some files which were on a windowz system, which crashed go figure so someone wiped out the drive format and then relized that they had important files on the drive. They then used sometype of recovery software to extract them and now I have them. These files are