Help, jpg's unreadable after copying to hard drive

[Kevin J. Nielsen]

I copied some jpg pictures from a cd to a folder in my hard drive which
already contained some jpg's. When I was done copying , I removed the CD
and viewed the pictures I just copied. I was able to view them all no
problem. Later that evening I tried to view them again and only about 8 out
of 100 are viewable, even the pictures that were in that folder previously
are no longer viewable. All the files show the correct filename and
filesize but the unviewable ones dont show the resolution of the picture in
windows explorer the way the viewable pictures do and they dont show
thumbnails when I select to view thumbnails.

When I double click on the file, windows picture and fax viewer says "no
preview available". When I try to open the file with roxio photosuite 7 I
get the message "cant open file". When I try to open the jpg with internet
explorer, all I get is a small box with a red X in it. When I try to open
the jpg with iPhoto Plus, I get the message "unable to open {filename}
Unknown file format. [270:5:4]".

I dont know if it has anything to do with it but I have hide folders xp
installed and I had it unlocked at the time I copied the pictures. I
unlocked it again and I still cannot view the pictures. The folder I have
my jpg's in is not one of my hidden folders in hide folders xp.

Thank You

Kevin

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I copied some jpg pictures from a cd to a folder in my hard drive
which already contained some jpg's. When I was done copying , I
removed the CD and viewed the pictures I just copied. I was able
to view them all no problem. Later that evening I tried to view
them again and only about 8 out of 100 are viewable, even the
pictures that were in that folder previously are no longer
viewable. All the files show the correct filename and filesize but
the unviewable ones dont show the resolution of the picture in
windows explorer the way the viewable pictures do and they dont
show thumbnails when I select to view thumbnails.
When I double click on the file, windows picture and fax viewer
says "no preview available". When I try to open the file with
roxio photosuite 7 I get the message "cant open file". When I try
to open the jpg with internet explorer, all I get is a small box
with a red X in it. When I try to open the jpg with iPhoto Plus, I
get the message "unable to open {filename} Unknown file format.
[270:5:4]".
I dont know if it has anything to do with it but I have hide
folders xp installed and I had it unlocked at the time I copied the
pictures. I unlocked it again and I still cannot view the
pictures. The folder I have my jpg's in is not one of my hidden
folders in hide folders xp.

CHKDSK?

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Kevin

What happens when you view the images directly from the CD?

 

[Kevin J. Nielsen]

Kevin

"What happens when you view the images directly from the CD?"

I have already re-formatted the CD, but I was able to view the pics from
the cd just fine and as I said: "When I was done copying , I removed the CD

and viewed the pictures I just copied. I was able to view them all no
problem. "

So I was able to view them all from the hard drive with no problem.
For some reason, the entire folder on my hard drive got corrupted because
the pictures I had in that folder previous to the copy operation are now
unviewable as well (I had about 60 jpg's in the folder already.) Whatever
happened, it did at least spare 8 of my pics for some reason.

Thank you for considering my problem

Kevin






Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

I copied some jpg pictures from a cd to a folder in my hard drive which
already contained some jpg's. When I was done copying , I removed the CD
and viewed the pictures I just copied. I was able to view them all no
problem. Later that evening I tried to view them again and only about 8
out
of 100 are viewable, even the pictures that were in that folder previously
are no longer viewable. All the files show the correct filename and
filesize but the unviewable ones dont show the resolution of the picture
in
windows explorer the way the viewable pictures do and they dont show
thumbnails when I select to view thumbnails.

When I double click on the file, windows picture and fax viewer says "no
preview available". When I try to open the file with roxio photosuite 7
I
get the message "cant open file". When I try to open the jpg with
internet
explorer, all I get is a small box with a red X in it. When I try to open
the jpg with iPhoto Plus, I get the message "unable to open {filename}
Unknown file format. [270:5:4]".

I dont know if it has anything to do with it but I have hide folders xp
installed and I had it unlocked at the time I copied the pictures. I
unlocked it again and I still cannot view the pictures. The folder I have
my jpg's in is not one of my hidden folders in hide folders xp.

Thank You

Kevin

 

[JS]

In case all else fails and none of the other suggestions posted work here is
a link to a number of utilities that will/may (I did not test them) repair
JPG files.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=jpg+repair

JS