HDD GURU FORUMS

So i was working on a wall and the pc freezed. Nothing to do apart a hard reboot.
Then Photoshop tells me he shut down due to a conflict with the gpu (**** you!), and when i try to reopen the file, i just got a black layer.
Now, i still see the picture in the windows preview, and it's still 265 mo in the directory, but photoshop open the black layer and tells me it's 41mo/1,5mo.
I just tried two psd recovery tool but they still end with he black layer.

I'd rather test the PSD files on some other Photoshop. Maybe, on a computer of your friend, for example. And if it shows the files good, I'd reinstall Photoshop. And I'd select files that were not opened during that hard reboot.

kayones867 wrote:i still see the picture in the windows preview, and it's still 265 mo in the directory, but photoshop open the black layer and tells me it's 41mo/1,5mo.
I just tried two psd recovery tool but they still end with he black layer.

Do you have any knowledge of the .PSD file format? I mean on the binary level.

Likely too late for this one but wherever possible preserve originals, make copies, attempt recovery from copies.

Screw a recovery attempt up? original still intact, no worse off than when you started.

Why all the colourful language?
In a case like this the system shadow copy might be your friend?