Recovered files from Ext USB drive but in GPG format

[David Shaw]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 10:20:28AM -0700, scottpearson wrote:
> 
> I had 50GB of data on the USB drive. I installed SecureLock and configured
> the disk encryption. I didn't read/realise that data would be lost and only
> considered this when I was prompted to format the disk. I cancelled out and
> it seems the partition has been deleted.
> 
>  
> 
> Now, when i connect the USB drive, I am prompted to decrypt the disk, which
> does successfully, but Windows does not recognise the drive or make it
> available as there is no partition. How am I able to recover this partition
> and the data?
> 
>  
> 
> i have been able to recover some data using photorec but the files have a
> GPG file extension. Does anyone know of a utility that would recover these?
> I have tried  GnuPG for windows but the utility states there is no openPGP
> in the files.

Are these really GPG files, or just files that happen to have a .gpg
filename extension?  Were you using GPG in the first place, or is this
some artifact of the file recovery process looking at files and
thinking they were GPG files?

David