Advice needed: Recovered files corrupted?

[meob]

Hi Guys,

I successfully imaged a 2.5" Seagate to a .img file using getdataback 3.03 (FAT32)

Shortly after that, the drive squealed on me, to be honest sounds like the platter got scratched,
I have send the HD off for professional diagnosis.

anyhoo, the .img I have of the drive, I can mount it in getdataback 3.03 and scan for files.

It does find loads of files & directories, but when I try and open some of the files they are corrupted or incomplete .jpg's for example.

This would tell me that the files & drive is fragmented ????

Can anyone recommend any other goods software that might recover files from this .img of the HD?

winhex ???

Thanks in advance.

[pepe]

Hi,

It is pretty hard to tell u what the exact problem is from the distance. I would surely inspect the file system structures directly and see what method to use to restore the data. The programs are good as far as U know what they can do and what they cannot. Sometimes it is needed to correct some structures manually before use any program. So U may try some progs, winhex is good as well, if U are familiar with file systems, but it is possible that U will need the services of a pro with that image file too.

regards,
pepe