JPEG Images Broken?

Hello,

My computer recently died, and I believe it may have caused some of my files on my HD to get messed up.

I put my old HD into a USB 2.0 external case and copied my JPEG images (very valuable to me, all the pictures I have taken in the last 5 years!), to my new computer.

Most if not all of the pictures now have a weird rainbow effect, some of them, half the picture is normal, some the whole picture has colors all messed up.

Anybody have any ideas what may be causing this or how to resolve it?

Thanks

 

It sounds like your resolution setting may have changed to a very low value.

Right-click the open Desktop and choose Properties, then Settings and verify that your set to 32 bit color.

You may need to update or reload your video drivers.

 

Thanks, but it's only happening on over half of the pictures, and not happening to any images other than the ones that came over from my old hard drive.

 

I have never heard of such a problem as this. Could you post one of the defective images up on Photo Bucket (or whatever) and put a link here? If others can view it properly from there, it would clear the files from being faulty and point to very peculiar problem with your hardware or graphics software. This is indeed one for the books.

 

Maybe you have already tried. For a file that shows the problem, try copying it across as a single file and see if it is intact.

I always am a little wary of "mass copying ". There is a different interface now (USB).

Would the USB drivers be OK (and could involve the IDE drivers)? Updates would be included with motherboard/chipset drivers. Try connecting the drive to another computer and check a few files there.

I would consider running chkdsk on the drive.

Matt

 

Here's a link to a pic

http://bp1.blogger.com/_JfVEJZavcT4/R4uzgStfXeI/AAAAAAAAAAM/jXZpImgD7tA/s1600-h/IMG_0211.JPG

 

That's what I was afraid of. Does anybody know of any software that attempts to repair the image files?

 

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