In article <xZSdnYZ3R_cQ8C3anZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Mr.Muppster
garystacey_THE@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> Hi all
>
> Recently my XD card went funny but I managed to recover some photo's
using
> 'recover my photos' software.
>
> However, now the JPG files (starting with an underscore) won't open even
> though they appear to be around the correct size.
>
The recovery software modifies the file allocation table to make
"deleted" entries accessible (the entry itself isn't immediately
deleted, just flagged as deletable). FAT entries are pointers to where
a file is, so if the FAT is corrupt the entries may be pointing to the
wrong location, or even if the entry is correct it could be pointing to
a location that has been over-written by subsequent data. So the best
the software can really do is present you with a block of data that
might be the file you want to recover.
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