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You are going to be one of the data recovery experts on SF, if you're not already.
I was going to comment on Photorec recognizing .vob as .mpg and sorting out the difference after recovery, but you have a very good handle on this.
It also appears that Anshad has given you another option in GetDataBack.
Our friends on the other side of the world might retire soon. The ball is back in your court now that you have to decide on the application. I still strongly recommend another external drive - Backup, Backup, Backup!
Partitioning a drive is always wise, I usually keep the parts between 50 and 200 GB on my external drives. I keep a large chunk of space 500 GB - 1TB at the end of the drive(s) for those times I need to organize my drives.
I also initialize the drives as GPT to avoid having to deal with the MBR 4 partition limitation (too many dynamic disk threads). The only limit I run up against is drive letters, but I get around that by mounting the drive instead of assigning it a letter.
I'll go back to watching, you have some things to consider. As you said, by hook or by crook - you will get your data back.
This has been a pleasure, a lot of data recovery threads are akin to pulling teeth without anesthesia.
Bill
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