How to turn .CHK files into the original file type(types?) ?

[Marlboro_Red]

Yesterday I extracted all the files off a corrupted usb stick using r-studio technician. However multiple of them were unreadable .CHK files.

What do you know about turning .chk files into the original file format?

How do I go about turning all of them into their original format?

 

Here is how it looks like on my end:

 

[xkryptonx]

@Marlboro_Red

 

Hello!!!

 

This might help:

 

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/how-can-i-convert-chk-files-to-their-original/7e3066c8-8ae3-4f65-bd56-fb8f78db473a

[Ecarion]

6 hours ago, Marlboro_Red said:

using r-studio technician [...]

Sometimes it's better to precise the version (for the record on several forums, it has become a mandatory to avoid a waste of time).

That's just one advice for the people which know this software.

6 hours ago, Marlboro_Red said:

a corrupted usb stick [...]

Good luck (specially if you don't have any image as backup).

Edited August 17 by Ecarion

[andy2004]

personally i would use TRID and the latest .trd file..

use it from a command prompt

 

TRID -ce device letter:\folder\folder\ and when you get to the chk files replace with *

example

C:\filesrecovered\whatevername.chk

 

TRID -CE C:\filesrecovered\* press return

files will be renamed samename.chk.gif or .jpg .png etc.

https://www.mark0.net/soft-trid-e.html

[Marlboro_Red]

21 hours ago, Ecarion said:

Sometimes it's better to precise the version (for the record on several forums, it has become a mandatory to avoid a waste of time).

That's just one advice for the people which know this software.

"R-Studio v9.4 Build 191346 Technician"

21 hours ago, Ecarion said:

Good luck (specially if you don't have any image as backup).

Nope, don't have any image for a backup.

[Marlboro_Red]

23 hours ago, xkryptonx said:

@Marlboro_Red

 

Hello!!!

 

This might help:

 

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/how-can-i-convert-chk-files-to-their-original/7e3066c8-8ae3-4f65-bd56-fb8f78db473a

I shall try this out.

[Marlboro_Red]

18 hours ago, andy2004 said:

personally i would use TRID and the latest .trd file..

use it from a command prompt

Would you please tell me how to use it? Or how it would even help me?

 

I have tried looking online for how to use it but I haven't found anything of use.

[Marlboro_Red]

I have found the solution. The solution is to recover both the "raw files" partition and the "recognized1" partition while using r-studio technician. That way all those .chk files return to their original format(although without their original filename) without exception and you keep some to all of the original file structure with intact folder names one level above the first files shown when you open the disk along with some to all of the original file names if they were inside a folder.