Repair corrupt JPG file

Brian Peterson , Sep 17, 2007; 01:34 p.m.

I have a FinePix A600. On my last trip I took 230 photographs on a 1GB card. I can not open the last 50 photographs. I have tried using Windows picture and fax viewer, Adobe Photoshop 5.0, and Jasc Paint Shop Pro 9.01. They all say the file is an incompatable file format or unidentifiable, or corrupt. I have tried numerous software programs to repair the files but none of them work. Is there any serious file recovery service avalible that will spend some time to analize my files and attempt to recover or repair them?

Responses

Tam Vu , Sep 17, 2007; 03:11 p.m.

ImageRescue from Lexar Media might help recovering some of your images.

Kevin Schoedel , Sep 17, 2007; 03:13 p.m.

A corrupted JPEG file is usually unrecoverable. You could post one of them to see whether someone can estimate whether a recovery service might be able to help.

Ronald Moravec , Sep 17, 2007; 04:49 p.m.

Never erase and overwrite the card. Reformat every time.

Brian Peterson , Sep 17, 2007; 06:03 p.m.

I have Image Rescue but it only works with my CF card, not my XD. I can read the files off the card fine. They are sitting on my hard drive right now. I can not open the files. Someone, somewhere has to be able to fix a corrupt JPG file.

Jim Strutz - Anchorage, AK , Sep 17, 2007; 08:13 p.m.

What other file recovery software have you tried on the card? They all seem to be different, and some work where others do not. I would keep looking for a software package that did what you want.

Here are two from Convar.de. They also do in house file recovery, but are not in the USA.

http://www.pcinspector.de/Sites/file_recovery/info.htm?language=1

http://www.pcinspector.de/Sites/smart_recovery/info.htm?language=1

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