Images downloaded from card corrupted

[strath44]

Hi folks,

I have downloaded about 100 images from a CF card onto my laptop (dell running windows 10 ent) my colleague formated the card in the camera and having now gone into the folder of the images on the desktop they look corrupted (funny colours or all black or rainbow thumbnails!).
Any ideas where to start is there anything worth trying to fix them - they won't open in windows viewer or Photoshop CC.

Any help much appreciated!!

[illmonkey]

Some form of data recovery. I've used https://www.stellarinfo.com/ on cards before. After than you can look to professionals to recover the data for you.

Are you sure the copies are broken though? Open them in paint or an other app and see if they are the same.

[Lagom]

Point PhotoRec at the card (it's free and open-source), long as the files on the original media haven't been overwritten it will recover them as formatting isn't deleting.

Avoid any websites that offer "free recovery software"

https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

Edited by Lagom on Wednesday 20th March 14:01

Edited by Lagom on Wednesday 20th March 17:40

[strath44]

Lagom said:

Point PhotoRec at the card (it's free and open-source), long as the files on the original media haven't been overwritten it will recover them as formatting isn't deleting.

Avoid any websites that offer "free recovery software"

https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

Edited by Lagom on Wednesday 20th March 14:01

Edited by Lagom on Wednesday 20th March 17:40

Thanks very much - incredibly that worked all 196 files recovered!!!!

Thanks for the replies much appreciated!