Damaged JPEG's

I have got damaged JPEG's on a CD-ROM which I'm desperate to get back
well the I'm guessing the CD-ROM is damaged. I can see them prefect on
the thumbnail but when you open them they are all over the shop. I
tried about 25 different recovery programs and the only one that could
recover with out crashing was ISO buster 1.8 I've done the Martin Brown
test below and the jpegs files passed that. A 703kb file compressing to
698kb that's a pass to me. Any help welcome as the snaps mean the
world to me.

Jeff

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If they pass the basic ZIP test and are commercially valuable then it
may be possible to recover and repair some of the damaged ones. But it
is impossible to say without examining original files. Drop me a line
privately with a couple of sample images if nothing else works.

Regards,
Martin Brown

"jef.nicol@gmail.com" <jef.nicol.DeleteThis@gmail.com> writes:

> I have got damaged JPEG's on a CD-ROM which I'm desperate to get back
> well the I'm guessing the CD-ROM is damaged. I can see them prefect on
> the thumbnail but when you open them they are all over the shop. I
> tried about 25 different recovery programs and the only one that could
> recover with out crashing was ISO buster 1.8 I've done the Martin Brown
> test below and the jpegs files passed that. A 703kb file compressing to
> 698kb that's a pass to me. Any help welcome as the snaps mean the
> world to me.

If you can, try to read the CD at a low speed, perhaps 4x, or whatever
the lower limit of your drive is. It sometimes helps when reading a
damaged disk. Maybe some of the recovery programs you tried already
did that, though.

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