corrupt jpeg

[crecomp]

Hi,
wondering if anyone can provide some assistance with this problem i have.
I have a external USB WD notebook 320Gb hard drive, belongs to my customer,i believe the customer accidentily formatted the drive( he is not too sure himself)
when the drive is plugged into windows, drive is detected instantly, installed onto pc, however all the directories on there are coming up garbled, except for the one directory which is the WD tools installed on the drive by default.
I am able to recover alot of his jpegs, however i am missing approximately 1/2 the files still.
the directories appear to be empty, however when i use Get data back it finds all the files for me, i am able to save them, they appear to be in the size of 2 - 3 mb per photo but i can open them, i simply get no preview available, the photo name and date all are ok.

I have tried some phot recovery packages such as jpeg recover 3 with no luck.

Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

[pepe]

usually RAW recovery works quite well for jpegs...
pepe

[wiseleo]

Ask your client if he really wants to pay for data reconstruction, which is separate from data recovery.

Charge an extra $1000 for the manual labor.

Try something like photo_rec and see if it finds them. You may need to reconstruct JPEG headers or worse.

[crecomp]

Thx for the replies guys. I suspected I will have to work with headers to recover the files, only problem is I have not done this before so time to learn.
Any pointers you can give me on this to get started
Thx for all the help

[scratchy]

There are several utilities you can use to recover photos, some are even free!
You could also opt to do it the hard way and learn about file headers and footers for JPG files

<itch>

[beto]

u should use winhex, to verify the code wich u got , from the JPEG , maybe was link cross or overwrite , and new data its using the "free" clusters" u can check that editing the file´s wich u got, the another way its like pepe told u, programming the searching of that headers of all hdd sectors ,on a new files

Regards