[Guesswork2000]

A couple of weeks ago, my 160GB external hard disk crashed. Most of the items on it were video files from my Sony hard drive handycam from which I had very recently deleted those files. Since I had no luck recovering the organized and labeled files from my external drive (it was appearing as a physical drive but instead of being a 160GB drive, it showed 0.00MB as the size -- what does this mean?).

Anyway, I ran the demo version to find my files on the videocam's hard drive and it took 4 days! No kidding! There were 2 drives of the same size that appeared when I plugged the videocam in, so I ran a search on both, but only searched for mpeg files. By the time the search was over, it had recovered nearly 7,000 mpeg files (mostly as lost files) which totalled to around 50,000GB!!

I bought the full version of Recover My Files and started saving the files. But when I tried opening the saved files with Windows Media Player which is my default player, it gave me an error message saying that it couldn't open or play that type of file. Now what?

Please help me! I've been completely stressing about this and I thought I was on my final stretch, but now this! I know there has to be a way to get through this and pick out the files I need, but I just don't know what it is...

Thanks...