[DPanMan]

Hi,

I have a Sony Mavica Digital Camera (Burns pics directly to mini CD-R/W, no flash memory slots). In an accident some of the film/dye near the outer rim of a CD-R got scratched off. Of course some data was lost, but the inner 2/3 of the CD was not damaged. I used BadCopy (a data recovery program) to recover many of these pictures.

Now I have a folder full of recovered pictures, but every single one is messed up. The thumbnails are fine, but when I open the file, parts of the image are shifted around and colors distorted. For example:

http://68.41.33.79/File35.JPG
http://68.41.33.79/File87.JPG
(sorry for the long downloads, but image info was lost when I tried resized it)

The top 2/3 of each picture was fine, bottom 1/3 seems to be shifted left a little, then the part cut out warps around to the right. Every recovered picture had similar problems.

Any ideas?? Thumbnails are fine for some reason.

Appreciate your help,
-Dan

[Rhettman5.1]

Can't get to the posted links. post one here from your Hard drive and we'll take a look ...Rhett

[DPanMan]

Thanks for the notice, its fixed now

[Kerri Ann]

DPanMan, i would like to know how you fixed your files!
please post and let me know....

Originally posted by Kerri Ann:
DPanMan, i would like to know how you fixed your files!
please post and let me know....

Just guessing but..I think he fixed the link not the pictures
buck

Here's one of them sized for the dial-upers

[slipe]

The only thing I could suggest would be to open them in different viewers. www.irfanview.com is a must have if you aren’t already using it. And http://home.pacbell.net/michal_k/exif_v.html has some features Irfanview doesn’t.

Confirm you didn’t have the LoveBug worm and have done a current virus scan. It damages jpg files.

[DPanMan]

Yeah, I mean't i fixed the link, not the problem yet.

I tried many different viewers, all the same problem (But in all of them thumbnails work fine!?!). I'm sure I don't have a virus - I have antivirus software, and only the files in this folder are messed up. These pictures were recovered from an already damaged CD-R, so some data might have been lost or shifted around.

Strangely, notice each picture is complete (does not contain parts of other pictures), but is shifted around within itself. The top 2/3 is always normal for some reason (Different amounts of the top portion is normal on different pictures).

[Rhettman5.1]

But thought I'd take a stab at fixing it

[DPanMan]

Sure, that works, but notice how on the right part the colors in the tree don't match, and anyways I have more than a hundred of these so I could spend half a day fixing them to become imitations of the original.

Its strange how the bottom 1/3 gets messed up every time isn't it...

Thanks for the replies

nice job Rhett

buck

[Kerri Ann]

badcopy pro will be my last choice if i ever wind up with corrupted files- this is the second time ive seen something like this.

[DPanMan]

What are some alternatives to BadCopy Pro?