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 Post subject: JPEG Repair Service
PostPosted: March 28th, 2016, 17:20 
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I'm launching a new service to repair JPEG files that are damaged by bad sectors. You can read up on it here: https://www.data-medics.com/jpeg-jpg-re ... -recovery/

And no, it's not just using some crap software like Stellar or EaseUS which we all know doesn't work.

If anyone would like to see a sample of what I can do, please post a JPEG image below that has bad sectors and I'll repair/re-post it for you.

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 Post subject: Re: JPEG Repair Service
PostPosted: March 29th, 2016, 2:30 
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Looks good, but why does a bad sector look like this instead of all zeros?

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Offset(h) 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F

0000D800  D9 96 96 D5 38 51 B3 E6 69 AC 20 75 05 9A A5 A5  Ù––Õ8Q³æi¬ u.š¥¥
0000D810  A9 55 C6 4B 50 C7 3D 33 94 12 D4 8C 6B 3D 6A 48  ©UÆKPÇ=3”.ÔŒk=jH
0000D820  AA DF 5C EF 10 4A 63 48 1D 14 52 C9 AC 98 BA 2A  ªß\ï.JcH..Rɬ˜º*
0000D830  F5 9D 33 2B 2D 63 33 10 CE B5 CF 35 75 A4 BA 31  õ.3+-c3.εÏ5u¤º1
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0000D870  1E 95 27 26 A4 65 D3 78 5E ED 42 CF 4A 95 6B 19  .•'&¤eÓx^íBÏJ•k.
0000D880  F4 E7 89 16 96 66 91 A6 7A CE 79 B9 87 55 53 49  ôç‰.–f‘¦zÎy¹‡USI
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0000D8C0  C7 D1 E4 D7 3E 64 B1 DD D7 3C D5 D6 9B F2 D4 76  ÇÑä×>d±Ý×<ÕÖ›òÔv
0000D8D0  4E 04 95 9E 82 E7 6D C6 AF 37 99 A4 C4 6A 19 C6  N.•ž‚çmƯ7™¤Äj.Æ
0000D8E0  67 F7 24 07 D0 F7 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  g÷$.Ð÷..........
0000D8F0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
0000D900  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
0000D910  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
0000D920  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
0000D930  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
0000D940  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
0000D950  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
0000D960  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
0000D970  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
0000D980  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
0000D990  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
0000D9A0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
0000D9B0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
0000D9C0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1F FF C4  ..............ÿÄ
0000D9D0  00 32 10 00 02 02 02 02 01 05 00 01 03 04 03 01  .2..............
0000D9E0  00 02 03 00 01 02 11 03 21 10 12 31 04 13 20 22  ........!..1.. "
0000D9F0  41 32 05 14 30 23 40 42 80 50 60 70 33 15 24 34  A2..0#@B€P`p3.$4

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 Post subject: Re: JPEG Repair Service
PostPosted: March 29th, 2016, 2:58 
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Maybe because it has been read without ECC, such as the final pass on DDI for example?

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 Post subject: Re: JPEG Repair Service
PostPosted: March 29th, 2016, 8:31 
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For the examples I posted I just selected some random sections of 512 bytes in WinHex to delete. I didn't bother to check if I was aligning it to an actual sector boundry. I've done the process on several images that actually were affected by bad sectors, but I wasn't going to post any client data online, so I had to just simulate the damage on a few pictures I took myself.

Perhaps in that spot, I started to zero fill and didn't actually highlight a full 512.

In any event, if you'd like a real life test just post an image you have or that your damaged yourself.

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 Post subject: Re: JPEG Repair Service
PostPosted: March 29th, 2016, 8:49 
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Edit: Actually the reason it's like that is you're not looking at the code of the original image. My site has a Wordpress plugin that compresses images that are higher resolution than they need to be. You're looking at a reduced resolution copy of the original, thus the smaller than 512 block of zeros.

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 Post subject: Re: JPEG Repair Service
PostPosted: March 29th, 2016, 9:21 
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data-medics wrote:
I'm launching a new service to repair JPEG files that are damaged by bad sectors. You can read up on it here: https://www.data-medics.com/jpeg-jpg-re ... -recovery/

And no, it's not just using some crap software like Stellar or EaseUS which we all know doesn't work.

If anyone would like to see a sample of what I can do, please post a JPEG image below that has bad sectors and I'll repair/re-post it for you.


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 Post subject: Re: JPEG Repair Service
PostPosted: March 29th, 2016, 14:46 
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This might be a very bad idea in some ways ...

Let's say that you have a client with a bad drive. You recover the data by PC-3000 / DE / Head Swap, whatever. You charge the client for exampl $1000 USD.

Now the client checks the data and he figures out that he have 1000 images that are very important to him/her that are damaged. This might happen because media/platter damage that you didn't notice.

Now what will you do ? Recover/restore the 1000 images by hand because the client already paid ? Or you offer the image restoration service at $10 for each image ? Wouldn't the client fell that it's sort of a scam ? Like having an initial payment and then another payment to recover the lost images ?

Unless you clear state when doing "normal" data recovery cases that in case of damaged images the price have to be paid acording to the images the client wants to recover ?

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 Post subject: Re: JPEG Repair Service
PostPosted: March 29th, 2016, 14:55 
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Here you have it :

6 simulated "bad sectors" :

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 Post subject: Re: JPEG Repair Service
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data-medics wrote:
Edit: Actually the reason it's like that is you're not looking at the code of the original image. My site has a Wordpress plugin that compresses images that are higher resolution than they need to be. You're looking at a reduced resolution copy of the original, thus the smaller than 512 block of zeros.

Spildit's resized JPEG doesn't have any blocks of zeros, nor do any of your JPEGs that I resize in my image editing software.

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 Post subject: Re: JPEG Repair Service
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Spildit wrote:
Here you have it :

6 simulated "bad sectors" :

Those aren't "sectors". To simulate bad sectors, you need to replace 512-byte or 4096-byte blocks of data with zeros on a sector boundary.

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 Post subject: Re: JPEG Repair Service
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fzabkar wrote:
Spildit wrote:
Here you have it :

6 simulated "bad sectors" :

Those aren't "sectors". To simulate bad sectors, you need to replace 512-byte or 4096-byte blocks of data with zeros on a sector boundary.


I guess you are correct !!!

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 Post subject: Re: JPEG Repair Service
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Yes, I will need the original damaged jpeg, not a converted one. Once it's converted I can't do anything to fix the stream.

Can you zip it and post again?

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 Post subject: Re: JPEG Repair Service
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Yes, I will need the original damaged jpeg, not a converted one.

R-click the image and select "saved linked content as" or whatever your browser supports.

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Yes, I will need the original damaged jpeg, not a converted one. Once it's converted I can't do anything to fix the stream.

Can you zip it and post again?


It should link to the original one ...

https://forum.hddguru.com/download/file ... &mode=view

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 Post subject: Re: JPEG Repair Service
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Thought I did that the first time. Anyway here's the repaired image:

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Not that bad :)

Original :


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 Post subject: Re: JPEG Repair Service
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The color is a little off, probably because the first bad sector was so near to the top of the picture there was very little to compare the color with. It's close enough that most people wouldn't notice the repaired spots at a glance.

That'll be $10 please. :lol: JK

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Spildit wrote:
This might be a very bad idea in some ways ...

Let's say that you have a client with a bad drive. You recover the data by PC-3000 / DE / Head Swap, whatever. You charge the client for exampl $1000 USD.

Now the client checks the data and he figures out that he have 1000 images that are very important to him/her that are damaged. This might happen because media/platter damage that you didn't notice.

Now what will you do ? Recover/restore the 1000 images by hand because the client already paid ? Or you offer the image restoration service at $10 for each image ? Wouldn't the client fell that it's sort of a scam ? Like having an initial payment and then another payment to recover the lost images ?

Unless you clear state when doing "normal" data recovery cases that in case of damaged images the price have to be paid acording to the images the client wants to recover ?


On that thought, my paperwork that my customers sign explains about bad sectors and that the service doesn't include any file repair or restoration services. However if I plan on pushing such service onto customers, I'm sure I'll need to make it even more clear up front. Perhaps I'll even offer a few as part of the recovery cost, but if they want more it'll be extra. As it is now we'll do the occasional PST repair and whatnot, just to make the customer happy and avoid them returning asking for that help.

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The color is a little off, probably because the first bad sector was so near to the top of the picture there was very little to compare the color with. It's close enough that most people wouldn't notice the repaired spots at a glance.

That'll be $10 please. :lol: JK

Very nice! It seems like you're onto a winner.

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Very Nice Indeed !

Congratulations !!!

Well done.

I guess that you beat me this time !

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