Data Rescue 3 can't open files

[mexipike]

So I screwed up and reformatted a hard drive but still needed the contents. I used data rescue 3 and with a deep scan it actually found me all of the files and folders. I had lots of images on this drive, but now they won't open. Any ideas on how to get these images to open. Is there a better way to recover files from a reformat on Lion?

[trevor]

Quote: I had lots of images on this drive, but now they won't open.

Can you tell us a lot more about this? How do you know that they are images? What have you done (tell us in great detail, in a step-by-step story form) to try to open them?

Trevor

[acme.mail.order]

1. Did you recover the files to another drive? Or are you trying to view them in place?

2. Do they have the proper extension? e.g. .jpg / .png / .gif

3. If they appear to have the proper extension, do they have a hidden extension on top of it? Use Get Info on the file to find out.

4. I suppose we don't need to nag you about backups now?

[Bad Cyborg]

Testdisk would've served you a whole lot better.