CapitainKirk
8th Sep 2009, 14:17
Posting computer questions here that is - BUT after three weeks of trying to recover broken images on my laptops HDD i am at my wits end and about to give up so here goes.
Just back from sailing in the Caribbean where we left one hatch on breathe and under this hatch was all our clothes in the hanging locker being saturated by seawater. The Admiral SWMBO had a freaky fit BUT then we discovered the laptop at the bottom of the locker [ yes i put it in there so it would not get thrown about as i knew we was going to be having a wild ride] and YES we was thumping along pretending we were a submarine driving the bows under the waves. It was blowing 25 knots and the seas were typical square wave horrible Caribbean seas. We eventually gave up on the big white things and started to heat the water and chill the fridge freezer - going down below the admiral discovered the 'problem'. The clothes got washed and dried but the laptop was 'killed' I dried it out and left it for dead BUT on the flight home i had a wee look at it and i could almost see text on the screen but it was one of these MS error messages "cant find boot disc" or something like that. Got it home and took the laptop apart and removed the HDD. The laptop is dead BUT i have a USB case and harness that takes laptop drives so i swapped drives and connected it to my desktop expecting things to be OK...........Yes i could see the two partitioned drives but that was it. On looking at the properties of these drives they were of zero size and raw..........This is a 160GB drive partitioned as two logical NTFS drives one for programs one for data 'mostly' JPEG images of our times in the Caribbean weather sat pics weather text and lots of technical boat stuff.Text HTML and PDF's. I ran a few free..........well free to investigate...........data recovery programs and yes they could see the files.... and they were recoverable however when i ran one for images.......they showed images/thumbnails of the 'recoverable' files and it looks like 14,000+ JPEG images were totally corrupt [no i 'now' dont have a back up of all these images - see later disaster] in the following manner - images broken up - colour/multiple band(s) on the images and about 30/60% of the bottom of the image a grey mass. This being the case i did not purchase the file recovery program. However i wonder if there is software out there that can recover these images - GIF's all show perfectly so it is something to do with the way JPEG's are encoded i think - probably a [corrupt] file header or something like that. I have got a few recovered 'faulty' images that i got from the memory card that i had put in my other pocket sized digital camera. However the camera bag with one of the other cameras in it was left in the taxi to the airport or stolen at the airport - we dont know which - it had all the back ups in it as well as a rather nice Olympus 5060WZ and about 10 mem cards and two USB back up drives.and and and.
Any/All help appreciated to recover the images of course.............unless you know where the camera bag went:ugh::mad::mad::mad:
Thanks in anticipation
Just back from sailing in the Caribbean where we left one hatch on breathe and under this hatch was all our clothes in the hanging locker being saturated by seawater. The Admiral SWMBO had a freaky fit BUT then we discovered the laptop at the bottom of the locker [ yes i put it in there so it would not get thrown about as i knew we was going to be having a wild ride] and YES we was thumping along pretending we were a submarine driving the bows under the waves. It was blowing 25 knots and the seas were typical square wave horrible Caribbean seas. We eventually gave up on the big white things and started to heat the water and chill the fridge freezer - going down below the admiral discovered the 'problem'. The clothes got washed and dried but the laptop was 'killed' I dried it out and left it for dead BUT on the flight home i had a wee look at it and i could almost see text on the screen but it was one of these MS error messages "cant find boot disc" or something like that. Got it home and took the laptop apart and removed the HDD. The laptop is dead BUT i have a USB case and harness that takes laptop drives so i swapped drives and connected it to my desktop expecting things to be OK...........Yes i could see the two partitioned drives but that was it. On looking at the properties of these drives they were of zero size and raw..........This is a 160GB drive partitioned as two logical NTFS drives one for programs one for data 'mostly' JPEG images of our times in the Caribbean weather sat pics weather text and lots of technical boat stuff.Text HTML and PDF's. I ran a few free..........well free to investigate...........data recovery programs and yes they could see the files.... and they were recoverable however when i ran one for images.......they showed images/thumbnails of the 'recoverable' files and it looks like 14,000+ JPEG images were totally corrupt [no i 'now' dont have a back up of all these images - see later disaster] in the following manner - images broken up - colour/multiple band(s) on the images and about 30/60% of the bottom of the image a grey mass. This being the case i did not purchase the file recovery program. However i wonder if there is software out there that can recover these images - GIF's all show perfectly so it is something to do with the way JPEG's are encoded i think - probably a [corrupt] file header or something like that. I have got a few recovered 'faulty' images that i got from the memory card that i had put in my other pocket sized digital camera. However the camera bag with one of the other cameras in it was left in the taxi to the airport or stolen at the airport - we dont know which - it had all the back ups in it as well as a rather nice Olympus 5060WZ and about 10 mem cards and two USB back up drives.and and and.
Any/All help appreciated to recover the images of course.............unless you know where the camera bag went:ugh::mad::mad::mad:
Thanks in anticipation