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smuudge
23-04-2008, 17:05
Hi everyone, just came back from our holiday and one of my memory sticks threw a wobbly. I have managed to get all of the images off of the stick but approx 300 out of 350 images appear to be corrupt and wont open.

The error is the familiar 'could not complete your request because an unknown or invalid JPEG marker type is found' when trying to open in Photoshop. I have tried lots of other smaller forgiving image viewers but no luck.

I have started to resort to looking at the HEX data of the images. I have tried one method of replacing the header of the data with some clean data from another image but no luck.

Some of the files don't seem to have any data at all so i presume they are lost but the majority do have information in them but something has obviously been affected, i just cant see what it is. I have uploaded a couple of files to http://www.benandsarahs.com/download

I would really appreciate any help.

Many thanks
Ben

Chappers
23-04-2008, 17:25
Your best bet would be to see if some image recovery software will help.

Run the program on the MS rather than on the data in the computer. I've found that Photorescue seems to work well

Here's the web site, I think you can download a demo to see if it works

http://www.datarescue.com/