Image corruption?

[oiprocs]

I had about 2GB's of photos on an external hard drive, and transferred it to my new internal hard drive. Upon sorting out through both drives, trying to see what I could delete and whatnot (done a few reboots lately), I believe that I had accidentally deleted the folder containing the photos. I don't recall that, but it was my only explanation.

I ran a file recovery program, and located the photo folder, and recovered it onto a second internal drive. However, now I cannot open up the images and there is no preview for them, either on thumbnails or in the picture viewer. Photoshop says it is an "invalid jpeg marker". I've tried changing the name of the file, the extension, but none of that works. The files are still there, as they all have different sizes, but I cannot view them.

Before I drop 30 bucks on a photo recovery program, does anybody have an idea on how to fix this?

 

[oiprocs]

Bump?

 

[montag451]

try getdataback - the demo will tell you what it can recover so you can decide whether to buy the sw.

MAKE SURE YOU DON'T write to the drive at all in any way before you run recovery software.

There are lots other recovery progs (free).
http://www.google.com/search?c...pera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

 

[oiprocs]

That's not the problem though. I have the folder; it is located on a hard drive. All the information is corrupt though. Will getdataback repair information as well?

 

[oiprocs]

Okay, I "recovered" the data that was on the hard drive, and when I try to view an image (JPG) with GetDataBack, this is what I see.

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[oiprocs]

Bumping for last resort.