Hi,

we've lost almost all out data, which we've copied to an USB harddisk, before
repartitioning the IDE for an XP-installation.
When trying to copy the data back from the USB disk to the harddisk after the
XP-installation, there where some directories missing and two directories with
very cryptic names have been created. Under those two directories there are many
files with strange names.

Is there a way to recover at least some files from those cryptic named files in
those two directories? Are there some tools, that might help ? The filesystem is
not consistent at the moment, which means that copying the files from those
directories that were not renamed also leads to error messages and not to a
successfull copy.

does anybody have some ideas ?

greets Boris