Recovering JPEGs

[S6PNJ]

I was trying to download some JPEGs from an SD card via my PDA and somehow managed to overwrite the File Allocation Table (FAT) with another SD cards FAT! Bugger I thought! I tried to recover the photos using Recuva but it wouldn't read the card. Double bugger I thought!
I then though that if I quick formatted the card, it would wipe the FAT and Recuva should work. Success (of limited style).
So I now have a load of recovered JPEGs around 2.5Mb each in size (expected, so OK) but they are all corrupt! Tripple bugger I thought!

I've downloaded a few evaluation copies of various software but I can't find one which will recover the original size. I can get 640 x 480 but not the 5Mpixel or higher that I am expecting.

Any suggestions for how to recover my corrupt JPEGs please?

[bigburd]

if they are important BEFORE YOU DESTROY THE DATA ANY FURTHER contact a data recovery company..

I can recommend

http://www.griffinforensics.com

[fluffnik]

Have you tried PhotoRec from the TestDisk suite?

It is entirely non destructive and has never failed me.

Best of luck!

[S6PNJ]

Fluffnik,
An excellent suggestion - thank you very much. Whilst it has not recovers 100% of the photos, I think it has come pretty close. After I downloaded and installed it, I found I actually had version 6.9 already on my PC! But then I've so many progs I've downloaded and installed that I haven't a clue as to what's actually on my PC anymore! It even managed to recover some of the avi clips from the SD card as well.

Cheers - I owe you a beer!

[fluffnik]

S6PNJ said:

Fluffnik,
An excellent suggestion - thank you very much. Whilst it has not recovers 100% of the photos, I think it has come pretty close.

S6PNJ said:

After I downloaded and installed it, I found I actually had version 6.9 already on my PC! But then I've so many progs I've downloaded and installed that I haven't a clue as to what's actually on my PC anymore! It even managed to recover some of the avi clips from the SD card as well.

It's a quite remarkable little program - if the card's not entirely dead and the data hasn't been overwritten it will get stuff back, works well on HDDs too...

S6PNJ said:

Cheers - I owe you a beer!

[tybalt]

Same site has software to recover MFT from MFT mirror that I've found very useful for dead USB disks.

[S6PNJ]

Tybalt, do you have a link as it's not immediately visible from their homepage please?

Cheers!

[S6PNJ]

Found it as a subpart of TestDisk - guess I should have looked there first!