Vista has corrupted 30% of all of my JPG files

My HD crashed last week on my old PC. I was not too worried about it since I
had been backing all pictures up to an external USB drive. Bought a new HP
PC with Vista Home Premium. Now when I view JPG files from the external
drive they appear with lines in them and are all jumbled up. Not all files,
but about 30% of them are like this.

Is not...
program -- tried IRfanview, Xnview, many others
memory card (SD) - tried several
camera - tried at least 3
method of download - tried USB and SD card direct in PC memory reader

Even when I put the Ext. drive on an XP laptop, the images all appear the
same now. I have copied and pasted to another drive in the same PC and even
other PCs and no difference.

A few other strange items related... all thumbnails appear okay, but when
opened they are jumbled. Sometimes the files look different - ie. one file
could be jumbled in one program, then okay in another program, sometimes even
in the same program if I log off and back in the files appear different.

I can send copies of the files if anyone is interested. Please help. I am
very concerned that 30% of all photos I have saved the past 9-10 years are
destroyed.

Thanks for your help.

Kris

tewkes wrote:
> My HD crashed last week on my old PC. I was not too worried about it
> since I had been backing all pictures up to an external USB drive.
> Bought a new HP PC with Vista Home Premium. Now when I view JPG
> files from the external drive they appear with lines in them and are
> all jumbled up. Not all files, but about 30% of them are like this.
>
> Is not...
> program -- tried IRfanview, Xnview, many others
> memory card (SD) - tried several
> camera - tried at least 3
> method of download - tried USB and SD card direct in PC memory reader
>
> Even when I put the Ext. drive on an XP laptop, the images all appear
> the same now. I have copied and pasted to another drive in the same
> PC and even other PCs and no difference.
>
> A few other strange items related... all thumbnails appear okay, but
> when opened they are jumbled. Sometimes the files look different -
> ie. one file could be jumbled in one program, then okay in another
> program, sometimes even in the same program if I log off and back in
> the files appear different.
>
> I can send copies of the files if anyone is interested. Please help.
> I am very concerned that 30% of all photos I have saved the past 9-10
> years are destroyed.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Kris
================================
Just wondering...if the bad files are on
the external USB drive and are corrupted
even when viewed from a different computer...
why do you think Vista corrupted them?

Maybe the originals could be recovered
from the old hard drive?


--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
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Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

Sounds to me like your drive was damaged and corrupted before you
transferred the .jpg's to the external drive. If you didn't check a few of
the transferred files after you backed them up - you'll never know for
certain.

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

"tewkes" <> wrote in message
news:2CB0F141-2A20-4BD0-B7EC-...
> My HD crashed last week on my old PC. I was not too worried about it
> since I
> had been backing all pictures up to an external USB drive. Bought a new
> HP
> PC with Vista Home Premium. Now when I view JPG files from the external
> drive they appear with lines in them and are all jumbled up. Not all
> files,
> but about 30% of them are like this.
>
> Is not...
> program -- tried IRfanview, Xnview, many others
> memory card (SD) - tried several
> camera - tried at least 3
> method of download - tried USB and SD card direct in PC memory reader
>
> Even when I put the Ext. drive on an XP laptop, the images all appear the
> same now. I have copied and pasted to another drive in the same PC and
> even
> other PCs and no difference.
>
> A few other strange items related... all thumbnails appear okay, but when
> opened they are jumbled. Sometimes the files look different - ie. one
> file
> could be jumbled in one program, then okay in another program, sometimes
> even
> in the same program if I log off and back in the files appear different.
>
> I can send copies of the files if anyone is interested. Please help. I
> am
> very concerned that 30% of all photos I have saved the past 9-10 years are
> destroyed.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Kris

It would appear that whatever took out your main hard drive also took a shot
at your USB drive too.. I doubt very much that Vista was the culprit..


"tewkes" <> wrote in message
news:2CB0F141-2A20-4BD0-B7EC-...
> My HD crashed last week on my old PC. I was not too worried about it
> since I
> had been backing all pictures up to an external USB drive. Bought a new
> HP
> PC with Vista Home Premium. Now when I view JPG files from the external
> drive they appear with lines in them and are all jumbled up. Not all
> files,
> but about 30% of them are like this.
>
> Is not...
> program -- tried IRfanview, Xnview, many others
> memory card (SD) - tried several
> camera - tried at least 3
> method of download - tried USB and SD card direct in PC memory reader
>
> Even when I put the Ext. drive on an XP laptop, the images all appear the
> same now. I have copied and pasted to another drive in the same PC and
> even
> other PCs and no difference.
>
> A few other strange items related... all thumbnails appear okay, but when
> opened they are jumbled. Sometimes the files look different - ie. one
> file
> could be jumbled in one program, then okay in another program, sometimes
> even
> in the same program if I log off and back in the files appear different.
>
> I can send copies of the files if anyone is interested. Please help. I
> am
> very concerned that 30% of all photos I have saved the past 9-10 years are
> destroyed.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Kris

--


Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/

On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:07:08 -0400, "Mike Hall - MVP"
<> wrote:

>It would appear that whatever took out your main hard drive also took a shot
>at your USB drive too.. I doubt very much that Vista was the culprit..

Typical fanboy response. This question has been repeatedly asked by
many people in the video group. You going to stick with your lame
answer?

On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:52:40 -0400, "Richard Urban"
<> wrote:

>Sounds to me like your drive was damaged and corrupted before you
>transferred the .jpg's to the external drive. If you didn't check a few of
>the transferred files after you backed them up - you'll never know for
>certain.

Twiddle dee and Twiddle dum. You MVPs are something special.

Adam Albright wrote:

>
> Twiddle dee and Twiddle dum. You MVPs are something special.
>

Is that suppose to be an answer or are you just testing your iq, mr genius?
hahaha...you are truly a stalking idiot who also just happens to be an
moron!
What a combo!
Go fukk yourself yourself mr genius!
Frank

I think it's Vista b/c even new photos fresh from my camera have this
problem. That takes the external HD out of the equation. The old HD is
fried and nothing can be recovered. I've tried everything and even had the
IT guy at work try his magic, but no luck.

"John Inzer" wrote:

> tewkes wrote:
> > My HD crashed last week on my old PC. I was not too worried about it
> > since I had been backing all pictures up to an external USB drive.
> > Bought a new HP PC with Vista Home Premium. Now when I view JPG
> > files from the external drive they appear with lines in them and are
> > all jumbled up. Not all files, but about 30% of them are like this.
> >
> > Is not...
> > program -- tried IRfanview, Xnview, many others
> > memory card (SD) - tried several
> > camera - tried at least 3
> > method of download - tried USB and SD card direct in PC memory reader
> >
> > Even when I put the Ext. drive on an XP laptop, the images all appear
> > the same now. I have copied and pasted to another drive in the same
> > PC and even other PCs and no difference.
> >
> > A few other strange items related... all thumbnails appear okay, but
> > when opened they are jumbled. Sometimes the files look different -
> > ie. one file could be jumbled in one program, then okay in another
> > program, sometimes even in the same program if I log off and back in
> > the files appear different.
> >
> > I can send copies of the files if anyone is interested. Please help.
> > I am very concerned that 30% of all photos I have saved the past 9-10
> > years are destroyed.
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> > Kris
> ================================
> Just wondering...if the bad files are on
> the external USB drive and are corrupted
> even when viewed from a different computer...
> why do you think Vista corrupted them?
>
> Maybe the originals could be recovered
> from the old hard drive?
>
>
> --
>
> John Inzer
> MS Picture It! -
> Digital Image MVP
>
> Digital Image
> Highlights and FAQs
> http://tinyurl.com/aczzp
>
> Notice
> This is not tech support
> I am a volunteer
>
> Solutions that work for
> me may not work for you
>
> Proceed at your own risk
>
>
>

The files were not backed up, rather they were copied from my old HD to the
external drive. Also, I do not think it's the external HD because even new
pics from two digital cameras (Sony and Canon) and two SD cards download
direct from the camera to the new PC with this problem.

"Richard Urban" wrote:

> Sounds to me like your drive was damaged and corrupted before you
> transferred the .jpg's to the external drive. If you didn't check a few of
> the transferred files after you backed them up - you'll never know for
> certain.
>
> --
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
>
> "tewkes" <> wrote in message
> news:2CB0F141-2A20-4BD0-B7EC-...
> > My HD crashed last week on my old PC. I was not too worried about it
> > since I
> > had been backing all pictures up to an external USB drive. Bought a new
> > HP
> > PC with Vista Home Premium. Now when I view JPG files from the external
> > drive they appear with lines in them and are all jumbled up. Not all
> > files,
> > but about 30% of them are like this.
> >
> > Is not...
> > program -- tried IRfanview, Xnview, many others
> > memory card (SD) - tried several
> > camera - tried at least 3
> > method of download - tried USB and SD card direct in PC memory reader
> >
> > Even when I put the Ext. drive on an XP laptop, the images all appear the
> > same now. I have copied and pasted to another drive in the same PC and
> > even
> > other PCs and no difference.
> >
> > A few other strange items related... all thumbnails appear okay, but when
> > opened they are jumbled. Sometimes the files look different - ie. one
> > file
> > could be jumbled in one program, then okay in another program, sometimes
> > even
> > in the same program if I log off and back in the files appear different.
> >
> > I can send copies of the files if anyone is interested. Please help. I
> > am
> > very concerned that 30% of all photos I have saved the past 9-10 years are
> > destroyed.
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> > Kris
>
>

On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:08:29 -0700, Frank <> wrote:

>Adam Albright wrote:
>
>>
>> Twiddle dee and Twiddle dum. You MVPs are something special.
>>
>
>Is that suppose to be an answer or are you just testing your iq, mr genius?
>hahaha...you are truly a stalking idiot who also just happens to be an
>moron!
>What a combo!
>Go fukk yourself yourself mr genius!
>Frank

Frank can't even spell f..k. Maybe because 100% of his brain is
corrupt.