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Jpegs will not open
Have a win xp home pc that had the W32.Blackmal.B@mm virus. I obtained the tool from nortons web site and cleaned off the virus. all of the jpegs and mp3's that are on the harddrive will not open and the size is 0 bytes. i have tried to reload xp over the top will no luck i have tried several different "picture recovery" programs with no luck. i made a image of the drive and formatted and reloaded xp copied the files over with no luck, how did the pictures and mp3s become corrupt and is there any hope to ever get them back?
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You could try something like Easy Recovery Pro from Ontrack (http://www.ontrack.com).
I have recovered data from a hard drive that had been repartitioned and formatted 4 times and then had an operating system installed on it, so there is still some hope, but it all depends on your exact sistuation as I stated before (i.e which parts of the HD were written over etc).
I have recovered data from a hard drive that had been repartitioned and formatted 4 times and then had an operating system installed on it, so there is still some hope, but it all depends on your exact sistuation as I stated before (i.e which parts of the HD were written over etc).
Agreed, but since he used an image, that would most likely overwrite what he needed, only chance is for him to go to a data recovery expert for them to catch the magnification stacks and possibly get a file out of that.
But do try that program, it only reads from the top of the stack though.
But do try that program, it only reads from the top of the stack though.
That reimage ruined any data-recovery attempt that you could of persued. I mean you MIGHT be able to get a few of the pictures back for thousands of dollars from a data recovery agent but you shouldnt have much luck.
That reformat killed many of the chances.