Data recovery returned corrupted (Gibberish) .Ma text data.

[Anonymous]

I took my failing laptop drive to geek squad. They were able to recover autodesk maya files and photoshop files, etc, but the files aren't recognized in the aforementioned programs. Additionally when I open the Maya files in a text editor it displays gibberish instead of the coherent ascii data associated with maya files with the file extension .Ma. Can you recommend a software or computer recovery company that is familiar with recovering autodesk data so that it is usable.  

The initial problem was that the drive had a boot image error and didn't recognize windows to start up so I believe the data may be intact if someone knew how to look for it.   I attached image of text editor gibberish i am getting when I open .ma file.  

[lee.dunham]

From memory, I thought Maya makes recovery files in binary, not ASCII?

Might be worth trying to rename the extension to .mb and trying again?

[Anonymous]

Still getting unrecognized file type.  The .mb files have a recognizable data structure when you open them in a text editor usually, but none of my recovered files look anything like the good .mb files I have.  

I've tried a couple of other files from the recovered files given to me and none of the adobe files or autodesk files work.  Almost none of the images can be read also.  I'm thinking of shipping the disk to another deep recovery company, as this recovery data came from my local geek squad.  I'm just not sure which company to use that will send me back files I can use!

[olarn]

Is it possible to see hex dump of first few bytes of the file?

[mspeer · Accepted solution]

Duplicate:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-forum/what-software-is-best-for-deep-dive-data-recovery/td-p/905...