Corrupt FAST files

He has tried in vain to retrieve his documents all saved using the FAST

transfer wizard from XP SP2

He has made 2 separate saves and has the correctly named files i.e

IMG00001.dat and "status" in the folder USMT2.UNC

He has now given me the files and now I have tried FASTConv with the error

message "Source store is invalid"

The windows fastwizard gives "the source folder does not contain the correct

data" for every version of FAST he and I have tried

A computer pro has also spent hours trying with no success

So he and the computer pro have given up

I and we have looked at a million goggle hits and have found at least one

person with the same problem - plus looked at the switches on FASTConv exe

files with the most careful considerations

So he now wants to PAY someone - hopefully Microsoft to attempt to recover

the files - but he says Microsoft will not do this for him - Can anyone here

offer a contact name ??? - the professional data recovery type of firms only

offer to get info of hard drives not off a Microsoft corrupt file

BTW the files are about 500MB and the header text can be read in a file

viewer and the 4th line reads DriverVer 07/01/2001,5.1.2350.0