Recovered photos will not open correctly only 10% of the image is showen

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Dear everyone

I accidentally deleted the photos off my Samsung Galaxy S2 phone.

I have not used the phone since to take any additional pictures or save any other files

The only programmes I can think of that could possibly be writing to memory are the email

and text messaging application running on the phone.

I loaded up Recuva and ran it against the phones internal SD memory 12gig FAT32 Used space 5.5gig free space 6.5gig

The software finds all the deleted photos (I think it's all, there were over 500 of them so I haven’t checked in any detail)

The ones I want to recover are all showing the same state “Excellent” and comment “No overwritten clusters detected”

The preview of the photos in Recuva only shows the top 10% or so of the image and when recovered and loaded in to a photo viewing application “picasa” the same issue, only the top 10% or so is showing.

But viewing the image in windows explorer extra large icon view you see the full image (see attached)

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and

how it looks in picasa,

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Does anyone know what's going on with these images?

Many thanks

James

if it helps here is the recuva info from one of the files in question

Filename: 20120303_163040.jpg

Path: H:\DCIM\Camera

Size: 2.39 MB (2,508,736)

State: Excellent

Creation time: 03/03/2012 17:30

Last modification time: 03/03/2012 17:30

Last access time: 03/03/2012 00:00

Comment: No overwritten clusters detected.

77 cluster(s) allocated at offset 220616

and the header

FF D8 FF E1 7C D6 45 78 69 66 00 00 49 49 2A

00 08 00 00 00 0C 00 00 01 04 00 01 00 00 00

C0 0C 00 00 01 01 04 00 01 00 00 00 90 09 00

00 0F 01 02 00 08 00 00 00 9E 00 00 00 10 01

02 00 09 00 00 00 A6 00 00 00 12 01 03 00 01

00 00 00 01 00 00 00 1A 01 05 00 01 00 00 00

D0 00 00 00 1B 01 05 00 01 00 00 00 D8 00 00

00 28 01 03 00 01 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 31 01

02 00 0B 00 00 00 B0 00 00 00 32 01 02 00 14

00 00 00 BC 00 00 00 13 02 03 00 01 00 00 00

01 00 00 00 69 87 04 00 01 00 00 00 E0 00 00

00 C6 02 00 00 53 41 4D 53 55 4E 47 00 47 54

2D 49 39 31 30 30 00 00 49 39 31 30 30 58 57

4B 49 34 00 00 32 30 31 32 3A 30 33 3A 30 33

20 31 36 3A 33 30 3A 34 30 00 48 00 00 00 01

00 00 00 48 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 18 00 9A 82

05 00 01 00 00 00 06 02 00 00 9D 82 05 00 01

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Hi James, and welcome to the forum.

I didn't actually know why that was happening, but after researching, it seems to be a common occurrence when trying to recover photographs.

An explanation here ...

Back-filling explained: (Scroll to the last question)

The reason you can see the image complete as an "extra large icon" is because each photo stores a thumbnail as part of it's data, and I think you're looking at a thumbnail of the image.

You could maybe try scanning with other software, and there are some other freeware scanners about, but I would suggest trying "PhotoRec", as it scans for data in a completely different way to most other recovery programs, and quite a few folk have had success with it on here.

PhotoRec:

It looks like command line but isn't, and there's a tutorial video at the link below which also has the details of other freeware recovery programs.

Free Recovery Software:

Hope that helps.