We had a situation come up where a folder was deleted from the server that is not in the backups. The folder contained several gigs of image files - jpg, tif and png files.

We need to try and recover these files, so I used Active@Undelete to do a scan of the partition where the files were stored and found them all. I recovered the files to a different computer, but now after looking at them, none of them will open in any image viewing program (I have tried MS image viewer, browsers, photoshop, etc).

The files look normal - they have the correct file names, they are the right size and all permissions look okay. I also tried two other file recovery utilities but they recover files that cannot be viewed as well.

Has anyone else seen this before? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

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I remember that day when I accidentally deleted one of my folder that contained lot of my important data like document, presentation, images, video etc and I was very scared but after browsing many software on web I selected stellar data recovery software and with the help of this software I recovered all my documents, presentation, images, video etc in its original form. If you want you can try this software for recovery of Images and can save recovered data directly to the FTP server or a local hard drive.

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Yes, I have tried this utility and several others. They all recover the files, but the images still do not open. I need something that knows how to recover image files specifically. Thank you for the recommendation though... – supercharn May 26 '11 at 19:25
Hi supercham, Can you tell me in detail, what problem you are facing when you used Stellar Windows data recovery software. Have you seen the preview of retrieved files and folder containing (images, excel sheet, video) or any other file type before saving the document. May b i can help you out! – sangy May 27 '11 at 4:39
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