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[gswart569]

Hi. I'm going to keep this short. My windows crashed, I forgot to backup some photos, I formatted my hard drive and reinstalled windows.

I used OnTrack Recovery and got the photos back, but now when I try to open any one of them, it says "No Preview Available".

I do not have any other backups of these photos, I think you all understand what I'm going through here lol.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance!!

 

[hang-the-9]

Are you sure you got the files back correctly? How large are the files? Do they have the correct icons and extentions?

 

[gswart569]

The files range between 2mb and 5mb. The extension are all .jpg and .jpeg. The icons are jpeg icons.

 

[hang-the-9]

Sounds about right for image size, Have you tried opening the files from a program (MS Paint or something) or just double-clicking on them? I love Google Picassa for image sorting/viewing, download that and have it do a scan for your images, see if they show up properly in that.

 

[gswart569]

I've tried picassa, no joy. Paint, no joy. Just double clicking, no joy. I've browsed google for answers aswel, but can't get the right answer. I'm really desperate.

 

[hang-the-9]

The restore may not have fully worked then. If you have been using the same hard drive you will probably have issues getting the files back as things get over-written. Try to run the recovery software again or maybe try a different software. I think the "right" answer may be that the files are corrupt.