Can corrupt Canon CR2 RAW photos be repaired? Unfortunately I know of no software that can successfully repair corrupt Canon CR2 RAW Canon files. Please leave a comment if you do because I’d love to link to it! That being said, depending on your situation there may be options: If the corrupt CR2 file is… Read More »
Windows Photo Viewer can’t open this picture because the file appears to be damaged, corrupted or is too large. If try to open a corrupt JPEG file in the Windows Photo Viewer it will tell you: Windows Photo Viewer can’t open this picture because the file appears to be damaged, corrupted or is too large.… Read More »
For my JPEG Repair Service I am often asked to repair JPEGs that only partially display. The bottom half of JPEG is missing or greyed out, solid grey. I some times can repair this and I some times can not. It all depends on if there is data present I can work with. Fact is that the image… Read More »
Raymond.cc’s JPEG repair challenge If you have googled for software to repair corrupt JPEG photos, then there’s a good chance you have come across this article on Raymond.cc: 5 Tools to Repair Corrupted JPEG Photos and Images. Raymond, or the article author HAL9000 (utterly cool nick!) set up an artificial test to test various tools that… Read More »
Something I have been doing lately is looking into repair of damaged and corrupt JPEG photos. I have been offering a JPEG repair service for a while now. Learning from that I have created a utility that addresses most common issues with corrupt and damaged JPEG files. Basically there are two types of issues I… Read More »
When you discover photos on your SD card are corrupt you should: Do as little as possible (read: nothing) with the card. Do NOT run chkdsk on the card itself! Create a disk image of the card immediately! To create a disk image use the free version of ReclaiMe or Win32 Disk Imager. The image… Read More »
Recover Canon CR2 RAW photos. Canon CR2 raw files contain unprocessed raw sensor data. Depending on the camera’s resolution they tend to be quite large and due to typical usage patterns (preview photo > dismiss/delete file > shoot new file etc.) the files become easily fragmented. Shoot video too? Then fragmentation is very likely to… Read More »
Creating an image file for the purpose of data recovery An image file of a disk for the purpose of data recovery is one that captures each and every sector from the source medium. Used and unused. It is also referred to a bit-stream image, a sector-by-sector disk copy or a raw image. Creating an… Read More »
MP4 Video recovery and corrupt video I recently did a MP4 video recovery from a memory card (SD). It contained combined JPEG photo and MP4 video data, shot with a Canon EOS 600 D. Previous recovery attempts done by the customer resulted in the majority of the files being corrupt. All MP4 video was unplayable.… Read More »
Comparison between various tools for photo recovery The case of the corrupt JPEG files Sometimes it turns out photos can not be repaired after recovery. Best thing to do then is to use better photo recovery software and recover the files again. Files were originally recovered using Easeus Data Recovery. Case: Contacted via Facebook Chat,… Read More »