I'm not sure what has happened, but some NEF files are identified as folders on my backup disk by Win 7.
I'm not able to read them with a hex editor, as they will not open folders (naturally).
What happened, and how can I recover my NEF files?
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1Agreed on asking on SuperUser. This is definitely not a photography question. That is very odd though and I also have no particular insight other than to ask if you are sure that that is what happened and not that you simply ended up with a folder with the same name somehow. The structure of a file and a folder are fundamentally different in most file systems with a folder just being an index that can't have any data associated with it other than typical folder meta-data. It would actually have to be a file system corruption (and a very very weird one) to have this happen. – AJ Henderson May 26 '13 at 18:25
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Have you run `chkdsk` on that drive/partition lately? – Breakthrough May 27 '13 at 15:58
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Yes, `chkdsk` didn't find anything. I never name folders the same as my file names, Because of this, I'm not able to copy folders from one location to another (disk) if it contains these corrupted files. – Steven May 29 '13 at 20:58