[Cowboy622]

I took pictures at a family wedding with a Cannon Rebel Camera. They came out great and I even used on for me wall paper. Then I started having problems with the computer so I copied the pictures to an external hard drive and had the computer reformatted. Once it was up and running, I copied the pictures back to the hard drive and even though they are in the same folder, same size, some will open up large and can be used as a wall paper and some only open in a thumbnail size and if I enlarge it, it gets blurry. Anyone know How I can change the attributes back so when I double click on it, it opens full screen like some of the others? P.S. I tried opening it with infrview, internet explorer, microsoft picture viewer, etc....

I am running Windows XP home

[DerekC]

Almost sounds like you copied the wrong things. Right click one of the "small" pics and choose properties. What does it say for file size? Do the same for a normal pic, what is it's size?

[Cowboy622]

The file size for the small ones are about 4.17 KB and dimensions of 130 x 97

The file size for the ones still working is 2.69 MB and dimentsion of 3888 x 2592; and one even says it is 46.7 KB with dimensions of 664 x 448.

I took all this the same time and they all worked before, so how is it that just some of the pictures are small and the rest still large. Was this the work of the virus that forced me to reformat? Why only some of the pictures? and Can they be repaired?

[Noyb]

Originally Posted by Cowboy622

The file size for the small ones are about 4.17 KB and dimensions of 130 x 97

Do you still have the original Camera memory Card ???

If it hasn't been written over .. Maybe a running data recovery on it will get the originals back.

Somehow .. It looks like you copied just the thumbnails to the external.