How can I view this picture?

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This file appears to be an Unknown Binary File, which is an unexpected type for files with this filename extension.

This is a 2.6 MB picture? must be super huge image resolution but it can be also an extension error file, which means it's converted to jpeg from another extension file originally. There's no way to open a wrong extension file or corrupted jpeg. try asking the person to reconvert again in a jpeg, not others format and then change to jpg to read it, it will not work.

I'll look at it. 2.6 megs is not huge... That sounds just about right for a 8 megapixel raw file.

However, I have seen this before when a camera... it was either Kodak DCS SLR/n or Fuji S2 Pro... but it corrupted a Microdrive... which killed all the images, and the microdrive had to be reformatted because the file system was corrupted.  

The camera was a Canon Rebel. Does that open up any more options?

I also discovered that all the files currently unreadable have a modification time and date stamp within 15 minutes of each other. There's approximately 300 files all about the same size. What could do that kind of corruption so quickly across so many large files?

What about a data recovery specialist place? Do they have any tools you guys haven't already tried?

Actually these files are about a year and a half old, and this person says they used to be able to view the files until he tried a malware removal. However, the date of the malware removal (last month) is inconsistent with the stamped "modified" date on all these files (June 15.) Can a malware removal do that? Or was this person mistaken about which files he may have been looking at?

Tocardx: I really appreciate your work on this. Just wondered if you could answer my last question so I can wrap this case up for my client. And maybe any last thoughts about what could have done this while they were on the hard drive- but only to _some_ of the picture files?

Thanks!

Wow. Thanks so much for the info!

For anyone else with similar issues: I helped him do a chkdsk before the malware removal and it came up clean.

This problem affected only 3 folders in one profile. All other pics in that profile and in others on the system were fine. After the help and info from these experts, I must conclude that it was an error in the device that took the images or stored the original images, or an error in moving them to the hard drive. I plan to recommend a data recovery speicialist that might help.

Excellent work on a particularly difficult file. I appreciate all your help. Even if the image was not recovered in the end, I am able to accurately explain the loss to the customer.