Saturday 13 April 2019

windows 7 - How do I find out the file type without an extension?



After recovering my HDD, I ended up with a lot of files with no extension. Many of them are .bin files.


Is there any way to find out what file format they actually are?


Many of them have no information if I edit them with Notepad++ or Hex Editors.



Answer



Ahh, the dark arts of file identification.


I rather like trid for this. It identifies files (and renames them, if you choose), has a nice large database, and is totally independent of the file itself, so you have two approaches at your disposal.


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