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JPG Corrupted file

I have lost so many jpg's in my pictures folder which are on my External HD and I'm sure they were working fine few months back.

Is there anyway to recover the pictures as they are very important.
I am willing to pay but I need to make sure that file will be recovered 100%.
Attached are the sample.

Please I will really appreciate if anyone can help me.

Thank you
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Well, there's no 100% guarantee... especially before someone's seen the data.
This speaks to the dangers of trusting USB-attached drives for backup: their error notification and recovery is much, much less than a SATA-attached drive, and SATA is less than SAS.

Are you sure you have not contracted a virus or other malware that might have corrupted your files?  If so, you're rather unlikely to get your data back.  Use two or more of the online free virus checkers to do a thorough check of your system.  I recommend Avast, Panda, and AVG.  The online don't require you to install anything on your system.

If no malware is found, you're probably looking at a hardware problem.  Many reputable drive recovery services will take a look at your drive and give you some kind of estimate before the meter starts running.  They can give you a good estimate of likelihood of recovery, and how much they expect to get back.   If the data is that important, your only recourse in my opinion is to use one of those services.  

For those reading with particularly important data, note that a cloud backup service alone  might not have prevented this issue.  If the user didn't notice that the files were changing, the online backup might have started uploading the changed (bad) files after a while, overwriting the good ones it had previously stored.  Over time, most of the good files would have been replaced by bad files.

If you want to keep data for a long period (years or decades), you need an archive-class system.  There are only two things I know of that can do it: archival quality CD, DVD, or (shudder) blu-ray (you should buy the disks certified for 50- or 100-year life, but they're slow, fragile, and media management is a real problem for large amounts of data.  Standard CD/DVD media IS **NOT** suitable for long-term storage of data!), and tape (fast, rugged, easy to manage, and not that expensive, particularly if you're willing to buy a drive a generation or two back)
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I agree with you ... this is to prevent from happening but now my concern is to fix these pictures they are not a lot might be around 100 only. The weird thing is that the file size shows its around 3mb but nothing gets open :( there should be something to fix it ..
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Do not attempt to repair the disk you have yourself. There are recovery programs out there, but any DIY attempts may hinder the commercial company's attempts to recover your data.

If you want to try DIY recovery, make an image copy of the disk and try recovery against the copy.
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you said "which are on my External HD "   did you ever run a diagnostic on it?
use the manufacturer's diag, eg seagate, for seagate drive, - WD for WD, etc...
this will show if the drive has problems or not
if you post the drive model, i can get you the link
try :


Stellar Phoenix JPEG Repair

picture doctor

 All Media Fixer   2008
None of the software worked :(
Its the HD I think it got corrupted.

Thanks for all your support.
You are welcome
well i suggested that in :ID 39974773
 you said "which are on my External HD "   did you ever run a diagnostic on it?
use the manufacturer's diag, eg seagate, for seagate drive, - WD for WD, etc...
this will show if the drive has problems or not
if you post the drive model, i can get you the link

don' t forget to close this - and award points
Thanks , regards