| Author | Message | ||
     Charlie |
Hello, To make a long story short, I was redoing the OS on my box, so I transferred my entire digital photo collection (and mp3) over to a different PC on my LAN for temporary storage. Days later I went to look at the photos on the "backup" PC and all my data was corrupt. The files were all there, the sizes were correct, but none of the mp3's would play and probably 90% of my digital photos will not open. Now I don't care about the music, but the photos mean ALOT to me. I am a super newbie about hex editing and data recovery and don't know where to begin trying to recover these photos. I had a few "sets" of photos on my work computer, so I have actually posted 2 files on the web. One is a "good" photo I retrieved from my work PC, the other is the same photo, but from the corrupt set where all my photos reside, it is the same exact size, but obviously it won't view. I can see some of the differences just by looking at the 2 files in winhex. The files are too large to use the data recovery option in the "freeware" version of winhex. (i'd gladly buy the software if it would solve my problem). Here is a URL to the "good" and "bad" photo. These photos are the same file, one good, one corrupt. If anyone out there with some knowledge in this are can help me out I will be forever indebted to you. Here is the link http://www.noisybox.net/chas/mangle/ Thanks in advance to anyone who takes the time to read this. Charlie | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) |
I'm afraid the corrupt files cannot be repaired. IMO, your only chance is to recover the original files from the original hard disk (from drive space that is now unallocated), e.g. using the File Recovery by Type method in Davory or WinHex. | ||
| Charlie |
I am just curious. Can you tell my why the corrupt file cannot be repaired? When you do a delta of the good and bad file does the discrepency run throughout the entire file or just in a certain spot? | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) |
The corrupt file contains totally different data. The important file header is missing altogether. | ||
| Ross@winpro.net |
Charlie, The data in the 'BAD' JPG is really the beginning piece of a video MPG playable with DirectShow. Somethng has gone wrong on your destination drive. As Stefan said, try recovery from your original source drive's now unallocated space. good luck, | ||
| Charlie |
unfortunately those drives have been reformatted...so I'm out of luck I suppose...hard lesson learned here. | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) |
That does not mean the JPEG file data has actually been overwritten. I recommend you try the File Recovery by Type method in Davory or WinHex. | ||
| Antonio Rato |
He conseguido recuperar varias fotos JPG que había borrado por error. Aparentemente el nombre y el tamaño son los correctos, pero no logro abrirlas. Me podéis decir si existe alguna forma de recuperarlas. Estoy desesperado.Gracias. Antonio |