Recovering corrupted photos

[RacingSnake]

I've been sifting through some old old pictures of mine (10years +)
And following my "great hard-drive failure of 2002" I have a few pictures which are corrupted.
ie, both the thumbnail and the image are 'grey', with maybe a stripe of original image at the top.

Is there anything out there to get this info back? - I'm hoping their a bit like avi's where you can manually "close" the file and recover seemingly missing info!

 

[RacingSnake]

Not that it helps... but I've now got the thumbnail showing the image correctly - which is odd, because I've done nothing more than copy them to a new location

 

[Pookeyhead]

You could try removing the suffix (.jpg etc) and then try using "open as" over a range of formats in photoshop. Other than that I can't think of anything specific. This is not the same as recovering a deleted file (which is essentially still there). Here the structure of the file itself is currupt or missing completely.

I'm assuming you had no back up in 2002... and that you have now?

Let's hope someone knows of something... but I wouldn't hold my breath.