Unlocking Pictures ?

[woodbutcher]

I had some problems getting rid of a trojan last month and ended up using a spare HD and re-installing XP to the new drive. I then installed the original HD as a slave and proceeded to transfer my Outlook data, Favs and so on and so forth. I managed to transfer everything except for my pics, which show up under my pictures as files with the size of such but I can't 'see' them. Looked in security but they do not show as being password protected.
When I change the view to thumbnails it will not display the pic nor a preview.
These pics are the last thing I need to transfer off this drive so I can reformat it.

Any Idea's ?
Thanks
WB

[paul9]

try rebooting on the cruddy drive, and see if you can copy the pics to a new folder on the cruddy drive. if you can do that, then you may have more luck transferring the new copies.

[thegreatoz42]

when you say you cant 'see' them, i assume you mean that you cant open them up. and by that i dont know what happens, you need to be more specific. when you say you cant 'see' them it could mean 1 of 2 things. either:
A: your picture viewing program opens up but nothing is being shown or
B: when you double-click on the pic it comes up and asks you to select which program to use to open the file
another thing you could specify is what type of files are they?
if they are a strange 'uncommon' picture file type you may not have the right software installed yet to read those files

[woodbutcher]

try rebooting on the cruddy drive, and see if you can copy the pics to a new folder on the cruddy drive. if you can do that, then you may have more luck transferring the new copies.

Tried that option, no go. Even tried that and doing a XP repair but it came up with a message that it would overwrite all files ???. I've done XP repairs before and do not recall having that problem.


thegreatoz42
When you try to view the pics (jpg) under XP's Windows Picture and Fax Viewer it comes back with "No Preview Available" message.

WB

[thegreatoz42]

hmmm... this is a tuffy, find out if you can view ANY jpg files. if that works fine then try opening ALL of your pics, it kinda sounds like the files are corrupt, if they are corrupt i wouldnt think that they'd ALL be corrupt... but its possible. Just find out if you can view ANY of them...

[woodbutcher]

I can view all the pics on my new partition / HD that were backed up and restored with XP's viewer without any problems. The problem with my back-up is that it's 6 months old.

I can't figure out why the pics will not display.

Yet another reminder why I need to back-up a little more often.

BTW, all the other doc's under my documents on the old HD transferred to the new drive without a problem.

WB

[Smartcat99S]

try booting to knoppix (or any other linux) and saving the pics onto a CD-RW, since it can't write to NTFS yet, but it does a very good job of recovering files on NTFS

[woodbutcher]

try booting to knoppix (or any other linux) and saving the pics onto a CD-RW, since it can't write to NTFS yet, but it does a very good job of recovering files on NTFS

I'd be willing to give that a shot, if I knew how to go about it.
Would you happen to have a link to more info on how to go about trying your procedure?

WB

[Smartcat99S]

1. Burn the knoppix ISO (www.knoppix.org)
2. It should (on the desktop) have an icon for your hd, click on it, copy your file to /home/knoppix, burn it onto cd using K3B