Hi,
I'm trying to help my father out with recovering some lost pictures. Not quite sure what actually happened, but it had something to do with him changing the name of a folder (after transfering them to his computer) and then having all the pictures from that folder disappear (according to him).
Anyways, I figured the best way to recover them would be to do it from the camera memory chip itself, since they just recently got deleted from there (automatically when he transfered them to his computer) and no new files have been added since then.
But the weird thing is that Recuva recovers well a bunch of older pictures (from january/february), but the latest ones (from july, which are the ones I need) seem to be all corrupted. I thought that those last pictures would be "safe", since nothing new has been stored on the memory chip since then. So how can this be, the older files being fine but the latest ones being all corrupted? Wouldn't it make sense that if any pictures where to recover well, it would be the very latest?
- I've tried opening the recovered (and corrupted) files with irfanview, but still no luck. That was just to see if some other (and better) viewer could do what the default Windows viewer couldn't.
- The file sizes of the corrupted files are about right (2-3 MB).
Can anyone help?
I'm trying to recover from his computer as well, but I think that's a lost cause since he's already stored a bunch of new information on that hard-drive. That's why I thought the camera memory chip would be my best bet, since it hasn't been touched since the latest pictures got deleted (automatically as he transfered the pics over to the computer hard-drive).