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Brand new P4 XP SP2, Raid0 2HD. and 1 Gig RAM. First download of picture
files was flawless and 16 files looked great from Canon digital. Now 14 of
the 16 files have fallen apart even with Symantec 9.0 Internet Security and
Antivirus. Using MS Office 2003 Professional Picture Manager. Did
Checkdisk/r and /f. no repair seen. Getting Gaps, lines, cutoff, weird color
configuration or cannot see at all. Any ideas? Thanks!
 
When you open these files with Windows Pictures and Fax viewer or your Canon
photo software, are these files displayed properly on your screen?

"Brian not Brain -but thanks 4compliment!"
 
Same signs of file corruption with all the same tools. No difference between
applications. Worst of it was that these files were deleted from camera
memory when transferred to PC. Cannot reproduce files.
 
Although you have a brand new computer, it seems like your video display
graphic card is not functioning properly. You may just need to go to the web
site of the graphic card manufacturer and update the driver.
I would copy these photo files on a CD using XP "Copy to CD command"
available under "picture Tasks" when you select photo files in a folder and
try to view them on another computer. If you can view them on another
computer, a good indication that the problem is with the graphic display
card.
Although you deleted the files from the memory card of the camera, software
is available to recover them. One example is here:
http://www.datarescue.com/photorescue/
You can try it for free and off course pay if you can recover the files from
your card. If you want to recover these files, don't take more pictures with
the card.
You can use google to search for "recover photo files" and you will find a
lot of software to do this.
A few years ago there were several "freeware" to do this but I can't find
any now.


"Brian not Brain -but thanks 4compliment!"
 
Yves said:
You can use google to search for "recover photo files"
and you will find a lot of software to do this.
A few years ago there were several "freeware" to do this
but I can't find any now.
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Freebies? Here you go..........

PC Inspector Smart Recovery
http://tinyurl.com/3frl8

PC Inspector File Recovery
http://tinyurl.com/70lc

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Great, still some freeware. I note that this is a German site. I downloaded
recovery freeware from Germany a few years back but their site is no longer
there. It may be the same software. If it is, I tested it just for the fun
of it and it worked very well.
 
Thanks for all these ideas to check out. Will be out of touch for next few
days. Will report back later on. Greatly appreaciate all this feedback!
Wonderful Ideas!
Brian
 
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