I recently switched computers and in the process, I burned approximately 2,000 photos onto two discs for backup and to transport them into my new computer (old computer is long gone). The problem now is that I am unable to open more than half of the photos. Both discs contain missing photos; however, they usually are missing in huge chunks (one chunk is almost 400 photos thought some can be as small as four). The photos were taken with various cameras and some are scanned photos; there is no correlation between this and the ones, which are missing. The file names are in tact and the file size seems consistent with the non-missing photos (2 MB for jpg and 5 MB for tif files); however, the thumbnails appear just as enlarged icons. Furthermore, if I try to copy/paste or send the files from the CD to my computer, I get an error message stating, Cannot copy (file name): the parameter is incorrect. So far, I have tried to open the files using various photo editing programs and viewers, but nothing seems to work. Please help; these photos are my life...literally!!!!
Old Computer: Windows 98, Roxio CD Creator, Memorex CD-RW Discs
New Computer: Windows XP Home
ERROR MESSAGES
Windows Picture Viewer: No Preview Available
Canon ZoomBrowser EX: Not Responding and program freezes
Microsoft Paint 5.1: An unknown error occurred while accessing __jpg
Digital Print 1.0: PhotoAlbum has encountered a problem and needs to close...
Photoshop Elements 1.0: Could not open __jpg because a JPEG marker segment length is too short (the file may be truncated or incomplete).
Old Computer: Windows 98, Roxio CD Creator, Memorex CD-RW Discs
New Computer: Windows XP Home
ERROR MESSAGES
Windows Picture Viewer: No Preview Available
Canon ZoomBrowser EX: Not Responding and program freezes
Microsoft Paint 5.1: An unknown error occurred while accessing __jpg
Digital Print 1.0: PhotoAlbum has encountered a problem and needs to close...
Photoshop Elements 1.0: Could not open __jpg because a JPEG marker segment length is too short (the file may be truncated or incomplete).