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Repair corrupt and broken JPEGs like a pro using JPEG-Repair Toolkit

 

For more than 20 years I (Joep) developed and was involved in development of data and file recovery software. Now, I do specialized data recovery : photo recovery / video recovery/ NAND flash recovery (memory cards, pen drives etc.). I do photo repair / video repair. But if people ask me to repair audio I try that too. I offer an Online JPEG / photo /video repair service. I serve customers world-wide, however most of my clients are from the USA or Europe. This is a manual service unlike similar services, and this allows me to repair digital photos and video that others or utilities can’t. You can also try the tool I created to do these JPEG repairs. I blog about these topics, which I am passionate about. Information in Dutch is here.

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member of datarecoveryprofessionals.org

Media_Repair: Freeware video repair / audio repair for STOP-DJVU encrypted MP4, MOV, M4V, 3GP, WAV and MP3 files.


For many years I developed (now discontinued) or was involved in development of generic, all-round data recovery software. But not at this time. If you’re looking for all-round file recovery software I recommend UFS Explorer File Recovery:


 

Photo Repair Service

Photo Recovery Service

Photo Repair & Recovery Software

I can repair digital photos that refuse to open or that look distorted (see example below). 

  • Corrupt JPEG headers
  • Repair invalid JPEG markers
  • Correct errors in JPEG bitstream 
  • Damaged colors in image
  • Shifting image data
  • Grey block in image
  • Partially loading images
  • RAW photos, NEF, CR2, etc. (may be delivered in TIFF format if possible, else JPEG)

 

Let me Recover your photos (and videos) for you!

With my years of experience and specialized equipment I can often recover intact photos and videos where end user file and photo recovery software fails.

This is even true if:

For my repair service I developed tools that were initially meant for my own use.

Based on my experience I released a set of tools that you can use to repair and recover corrupted photos yourself: The JPEG-Repair Toolkit.

This kit includes a repair (JPEG-Repair) but also a recovery component (JpegDigger), as experience learns that often corrupt photos are the result of incorrect photo recovery.

Your JPEG-Repair Toolkit license will work with JpegDigger too. JpegDigger  and JPEG-Repair can also be purchased as separate tools.

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Unknown, Not Initialized, Unallocated. How to recover data quickly (UFS, DMDE, Disk Drill)

No matter the issue, people tend to opt for the full, or deep scan options. Often not needed! It will just take hours and potentially produce duplicate, corrupt files and folders and files with generic, auto generated names. I’ll show you a method that is quick and produces a clean folder/file list with their original names. 

Latest blog posts
Last few weeks I stumbled onto several cases where file recovery software didn’t detect these deleted partitions. And even though these tools can decrypt Bitlocker partitions, they have to be able to find it first. I used DMDE. In one case DMDE detected the partition straight away, which is boring so I won’t get into… Read More » [...] Read more...
The SSD power-cycle method, urban myth or .. So all of a sudden your SSD does not longer show up after your PC ‘crashed’. You go online to search for a solution and people tell you to power-cycle the drive. The origine of the ‘trick’ appears to be a Crucial Support post: Find a computer… Read More » [...] Read more...
Disk Drill fan boy This is not a full blown review, I am working on that. Instead this is a quick evaluation of features I’d like to see in any file recovery tool. A set of features that in my opinion make the difference between a serious data recovery tool and a typical quickly thrown… Read More » [...] Read more...
I was asked to try Disk Drill 6 beta, in particular I was asked to comment on the new Action Camera Module that was specifically designed to recover video data from GoPro, DJI action cameras, but also for example ‘normal’ Sony cameras. What’s so special about Action Cam videos? What makes them hard to recover?… Read More » [...] Read more...
Common perception is that recovery of photos and video from a in camera formatted memory card is a matter of running a file recovery or photo recovery tool. Many makers of this type of software also give the impression it is this simple (Easeus, Stellar, RecoverIt, all the usual suspects). However many Sony camera owners… Read More » [...] Read more...
Is SpinRite a scam? Is S.G. a charlatan? People have accused Steve Gibson of being a charlatan and his SpinRite software of being little more than a scam. As you may or may not know S.G. is working on an update for the SpinRite DOS software, SpinRite 6.1. This has been a process that has… Read More » [...] Read more...
Some examples of drives returning bogus data after failed reads. Among data recovery engineers these are referred to as “mold” or “edu” sectors and they’re most likely parts of the drive’s S.A. or system area. Anyway, they have nothing to do with the original data from the failed sector. [...] Read more...
Different flash operations (read / write / erase) have different power requirements. This is probably due to fact that an erase operation requires 4 times the voltage, about 20v, than what a read operation requires, about 5v. So idea is that power consumption gives clues about what a flash drive is doing. I am assuming the… Read More » [...] Read more...
I noticed this question a lot (on SuperUser for example) and I wondered about it myself too. Questions like: Decyphering NVMe SMART error root@truenas[~]# smartctl -l error /dev/nvme4 smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE-p12 amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF SMART DATA SECTION === Error Information (NVMe… Read More » [...] Read more...
Convert Seagate SMART RAW values for attributes: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 7 Seek_Error_Rate 195 ECC_On_the_Fly_Count to actual errors. These values are known to display huge numbers, often leading to unnecessary worries or even panic. The RAW values however represent both an event count and the number of errors: IOW how many reads and how many errors during… Read More » [...] Read more...

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