Re: [sleuthkit-users] File Recovery - Unknown File Type

[Adam D. Ph.D., P.E. <de...@al...>]

The “file” command is pretty good at just recognizing what type of data a file is:

http://www.darwinsys.com/file/

If you have, or can borrow, a Mac, or Linux machine.


--Adam



On Dec 16, 2014, at 11:00 AM, Gil Brand <gb...@gm...> wrote:

> I need to recover the memoirs of a 90-year old friend. She has two files with NO file extension that were created on a Win7 laptop. Not sure of the creating app, but suspect Word. She has an expired trial version on the laptop.
>  
> I tried renaming the file as ‘.doc’, docx, rtf, txt, wps, wpd, odt and opening in Word 2010, wordpad, notepad, Wordperfect, Open Office Writer. No go. All apps show gibberish and possibly a header section of some sort. Perhaps an embedded EOF.
>  
> Was hoping that the Autopsy file recovery option would extract the data, but it found no data. Th
>  
> What I need is a ‘raw-data’ copy tool for Windows to extract the ACSII data as-is.
> Any suggestions?
>  
> Gil…
> 214-282-2581
>  
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