| Author | Message | ||
     Dave (Ringo) |
Forgive me if I missed this in another thread.... I recently updated my raid array at home and in the process of unloading and the reloading the data, one of the transfer drives messed up some of the data. Sadly, this included all of the pics from my Nikon. They look fine in a directory listing (size, type, name) but when I try to view them, it doesn't work. I have tried to fix them with a program that supposedly can do such things but it says there are no files to be gotten (supposedly fixes corrupt files). I try to open them with Photoshop and am told..."Could not open "..." because an unknown or invalid JPEG marker type is found". I have uploaded it in the hopes that some kind soul with greater knowledge and resources than I can make it all better. This inceident has just reinforced my spouses distrust of all things electronic...lol. Hopefully, someone can prove her distrust misplaced. ftp.feebler.com user rescue pass picture Any advice would be useful... anyone think winhex would be succesful? I have never used it. If anyone can get this file to load I will install it and be more than glad to learn it to retreive the other 1000,s of pics. Thanks Dave | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) |
Unfortunately, there is nothing to recover from the file you provided. If you look at it with WinHex you will quickly discover that it practically contains nothing but zero-value bytes. However, elsewhere on the drive the actual data may still float around. I suggest you use the evaluation version of Davory and the File Recovery by Type method to find out if Davory can still locate .jpg file headers. If so, the evaluation version will be able to recover them partially, so you could see the pictures at least partially with a software like ACDSee and find out if they are ones you are looking for. | ||
| gianni (Gioninardo) |
Unfortunately I have recovered all my data (jpg pic) but it is impossible to open them. Is there an utility which is able to restore the above file or rart of them? thanks gianni | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) |
Please try the recovery by type method. If it does not find any JPEG files, that means that the original data was overwritten meanwhile. | ||
| Matthew January Username: backpkr123 Registered: N/A |
My pictures were found, but they were only partial... Like 1/4 of the picture showed up. My computer froze while downloading and I chose the "delete from device if supported" option. This was a one time trip and I would appreciate any help or suggestion... Thanks *XxMattxX* | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann Username: admin Registered: 1-2001 |
> My pictures were found, but they were only partial.. (Found by whom/what with which function?) | ||
| Matthew January Username: backpkr123 Registered: N/A |
Found by Davory Data Recovery using the "by type" function. Sorry for confusion. I am using Kodak Easyshare (hate the software anyway). I ran the program searching by type (JPEG) and I recognized the pictures, but as I said they were only partial or wouldn't even open. | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann Username: admin Registered: 1-2001 |
OK, then the explanation is probably simply that the evaluation version of Davory cuts the files at 200 KB. The full version allows you to recover the files with a larger size, e.g. 1 MB or more. | ||
| Bruno Kerouanton Username: bkerouan Registered: N/A |
Hello, Using XWF 15.4SR3 I've been given several corrupted JPGs files to recover. None of my recovery/forensics software are able to preview/display the image, but the EXIF info is decoded correctly. I also found that MiTeC Exif Viewer is able to display the thumbnails, but it crashes just 1 second after. In XWF, the "Details" info gives me the following Exif data, which seems to be normal : Version=220, Width=2560, Height=1920, Orientation=1, Software=COOLPIX L10 V1.0 But at the same time, all attempts to use preview, gallery or display returns nothing. Some of my software (FastStone Viewer for example) tells me that the image size is 1x1. I found the structure of a JPEG image in ISO 10918-1 documentation, and figured by myself where the different parts of the image were : Huffman tables, Quantization tables, start of scan... but the issue is still the same : Of the 9 images I've been given to analyze, all seem to have a normal structure but none opens correctly (except the exif part). Any help would greatly be appreciated. Those pics seems to be non sensitive, so I can send one (1.2Mb in size) or the full set if needed to help solving this issue. Regards, Bruno Kerouanton | ||
| Duncan Clarke Username: dac_retrodata Registered: N/A |
Dave / Ringo, You say, "I recently updated my raid array at home" I would say that therein lies the problem - a problem with the raid array - and not your data. Duncan UK | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann Username: admin Registered: 1-2001 |
Thanks for your input, Duncan. Just FYI, the original poster probably does not follow this discussion any more. His posting dates back to 2003, 6 years ago! ;-) |