HDD GURU FORUMS

Afternoon all,

Just completed a logical recovery on a clients drive. Mainly pictures. ran file list software and all JPGs show as header OK.

However Client wished me to view certain folder to manually check. Did this and while the thumbnails are fine, the jpg's open but about 10% are corrupted, but all open.

My question is, do any of you Gurus use software to check JPG file integrity. I have about 15,000 photos recovered and would prefer to check them all for my client prior to returning, or indeed charging for recovering her data.

Kind regards

Logical.

If you have a imaging solution that will report back which files contain unreadable sectors, then that would be of use. I have also done a few screenshots of the thumbnail view of the Jpeg folders and provided those to the client. Jpegs are never easy to deal with on drives with media problems.

Utility for check many JPG:

http://www.thomasbarker.co.uk/2011/05/2 ... age-files/

Utility check log and add prefix "BAD_" to bad JPG :

http://otkaz.net/files/renamer.zip

Finds software which generates thumbnails from actual JPG files and not using embedded thumbnail. You will find the bad files just by looking on thumbnails

Doomer wrote:Finds software which generates thumbnails from actual JPG files and not using embedded thumbnail. You will find the bad files just by looking on thumbnails

Yup , Works Great

A really simple method of doing this in windows is:

-Add a coulum "immage size" to the explorer in detailed view
-Sort on this collum

-Invalid jpg-files will not have their image size reported by explorer.

Not 100% Accurate, but often a good enough first sort.

Regards,
Hans

DataRecovery wrote:Utility for check many JPG:

http://www.thomasbarker.co.uk/2011/05/2 ... age-files/

Utility check log and add prefix "BAD_" to bad JPG :

http://otkaz.net/files/renamer.zip

Thank You very much !!!
u just saved my day " and my eyes "