My brother in law took a bunch of pictures for me of my daughter after she was born.

When I open up the picture or look at the preview, they all look like this (with the bottom half gray):

Gray Image

At first I thought that the images were just corrupted, but in playing around with them I noticed something odd.

If I right click on the image and select rotate clockwise (or counter clockwise) I can see the whole image for a second. Like this:

Rotated Full

But after a second the thumbnail goes to looking like this:

Rotated with Gray

If it can access the full image for a second, is there a chance I can get the full image restored? Or some how save it off? (These pictures are non-recoverable otherwise.)

Any Ideas?

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What format are the images in? Have you tried loading them in other programs (paint)? – Pubby Oct 8 '11 at 5:38
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These are most likely JPEG images. I have seen this in rare cases when the image was not fully copied over and left corrupted.

Check out this article to see if it will help you fix/understand what's going on.

http://www.impulseadventure.com/photo/fix-corrupt-jpeg-photo.html

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