[zambrij]

Hello! Here is a new issue I never had a problem with using Windows XP. Been using Vista for a few months now and now, with the same digital camera, same memory cards, same procedures, etc... I am having all kinds of problems with my photos. When I transfer my photos to the computer either via USB cable or by plugging the xd card straight into the computer (no software program, just straight to disc), approx. every 10th-15th jpeg file copies with errors...I can open the file, but it is distorted in some way or has pixel-like lines running through it. Now, if I then go back to the camera or memory card and individualy re-copy that one photo to the computer and overwrite the damaged file, it fixes the problem, and the file is then fine. So, the file on the memory card is fine...it is the copy process to Vista that is damaging the image. Also, the same problem occurs if I try to copy jpeg files already on my computer to another source, like a back-up drive, a usb flash drive, a cd-r, etc... And again, if I go back, and re-copy individual images and overwrite the damaged file, it fixes the problem.

I take thousands of photos a month and this is killing me! I have to go through my pictures multiple times to check for problems and then re-copy hundreds of them...what should take minutes is now taking me hours! Is anyone else having this problem? Any ideas on what the issue is? Please help!! Thank you!!!

[kiwiguy]

Run a RAM test on the Vista PC.

It's unlikely to be a Vista OS problem, rather a hardware issue.

[slipe]

Do you have the problem if you transfer from the backup drive to the flash drive? I’m thinking your main drive might be a common link.

[ViprXX]

have you tried checking your camera manufacturer's website for Vista drivers or an updated vista driver if you have one currently installed. if not try downloading the vista driver for your camera model and installing it or re-installing it if one is already installed. If your having trouble finding the driver just post your camera's make and model number here and someone will help you find one, if one is available for vista.

good luck

[slipe]

I’ve had several cameras with XP and none have required drivers. I would be surprised if Vista required them. I’ve never seen an XP or Vista driver listed for a camera.

Also I doubt the camera driver would have anything to do with transferring pictures from the hard drive to a backup drive, flash drive or CD.

[ViprXX]

I know what your saying. Most don't require drivers but there definatly are some that do. And yes it shouldn't have anything to do with transferring files, especially since the camera is already detected and functioning. But I figured I'd mention it just as something easy to try, thats all. But your most likely correct about it being something else.

[juanglm]

I think you problem is related to Vista, so I'm having the same issue on my Vista PC, but when I plug the same camera on my secondary XP machine i have no problems. ah! i have an Ipod Video and when i try to sync photos they are copied distorted or corrupted. (never had those problems with XP)

[zambrij]

Yup...I have done an entire format of my hard drive and full recovery, re-loaded everything and STILL have the same issue! And yet, on my laptop, which runs XP, no problems at all...I am totally stumped about what to do here!

[kiwiguy]

From researching this on Google, there appears to be a problem with some hardware where the incorrect drivers are installed, the default Vista ones perhaps are less than optimum, but most people do not realise that they should always load the correct Vista drivers from each device makers website when upgrading to Vista.

If there are no Vista drivers, then there is an issue of compatibility.

If Vista came pre-installed however, there should not be a problem.

[amilcaralzaga]

Just to add up some info on this, I had the very same problem, my windows vista (ultimate) is up to date, and I also had that problem of corrupted files while copying fomr the flash memory. Now, even worse, I just bought a new 500gb HD, because my primary HD was almost full, the I transfered ALL my movies, and every single file seems to be damaged. They do use the same space in megabites, they do have the same name and extension, they just can't play, and that same thing also happened with PDF's, .rar files, .zip files and even exe. Every single file I copied (like 25 mb) now seems to be damaged. Both disks are SATA. Ah!, in case you are thinking, when I save a file straight to that HD, no matter what kind of file, It does work perfectly.
Strange isn't it?
Can any body help me???

[scott257]

I have tens of thousands of jpg's in a shared folder stored on a healthy RAID 1 volume on an up to date Windows XP Pro machine. The folder is shared across a network with one other computer. I never had any issues with file corruption until six months ago when I replaced the other computer which was running Win XP Home with a new computer running up to date Vista Ultimate. Ever since, I have noticed seemingly random corruption of jpg files, a few in this subfolder, a few in that. The files still exist but contain horizontal bars of garbage that replace the original image.

I have been able to copy the individual files from my backup drive (mirrored nightly to a separate network drive), but it takes a lot of time to search out the files and manually replace them.

I suspect Vista because the corrupt images don't seem to affect subfolders that I don't access from the Vista computer. The corruption occurs even though I don't knowingly resave the files from Vista--I only browse the directories and view the files through the built-in image viewer. All file manipulations are done on my XP Pro machine and never appear to cause a problem.

This seems confined to image files. It did happen once with a Word document, which could have been an unrelated problem, but I have not noticed the problem with other file types even with heavy shared access to a shared documents folder.

I'd rather not replace Vista with XP, but this is a headache I'd rather live without. Searching the internet hasn't revealed any help on this issue.

[Guyzer]

I had the same problem and started a thread a few months ago. Here's what I ended up doing....................
http://forums.techguy.org/digital-ph...ing-jpegs.html

In the end I think it's a Vista problem but I did discover a way to beat it.

[mrss]

Scary. So I count four users here with the same complaint. Taking files from HD and moving them elsewhere. Bread & butter data transfer. It has to work.....

1) zambrij
2) juanglm
3) amilcaralzaga
4) scott257

Seems to me like there's some kind of hardware issue, probably related to the drivers used under Vista that run it.

Maybe some type of hard drive exerciser or test program should be run. I'm not expert enough to know of any.

[Hughv]

FWIW, I had a similar problem.
A friend's XP laptop was stolen, so she replaced it with a Vista Home Premium laptop, and asked me to restore her files from a USB backup drive.
Most files transferred (Just a straight copy) with no problem, but dozens of her iTunes and images triggered a lengthy chkdsk on reboot. Some of the itunes never did copy.
I didn't have time to pursue this, and a post in a different forum got no answers.

[meohman1]

I had the same problem with Vista on a new HP m8100n machine w/Vista Home Premium. Randomly corrupt pictures from the Nikon D80 when transferring to the Vista machine - not all were corrupt - usually 25% - and not always the same pictures were corrupt if I tried to transfer the same pictures again. No problems with same card and camera and pictures on XP machines. I found what was causing my problem - see bottom of this thread.

I ran a very long thread at Nikonians about this here: http://www.nikonians.org/dcforum/DCForumID11/16045.html

See that thread for all the things I tried.

I finally found my problem - the HP m8100n came with a remote control for Windows Media Center. It also came with an infrared remote receiver that I had plugged into the USB hub for the remote control.

When I unplugged the infrared receiver from the USB hub, the corrupt pictures went away. I live in Louisiana, and recently went to New Jersey and New York for a week, and I shot almost 1100 pictures on 3 cards while I was gone. When I got home last Friday, I unplugged the infrared remote receiver and transferred all the pictures without a single corrupt picture. I used the camera as a card reader plugged into the USB, also the card reader on the PC and the card reader on the HP printer, and had no problems.

So if you still have the problem, try looking at the USB devices on your machine - something might be causing the intermittent conflict.

Hope this helps...

Mike