Recovering corrupt data from a FDD

[Sonic dB]

Can anyone give me some tips on how to recover this file?

Its a .jpeg that I need to print out. When I saved it on the floppy (FDD) at my client's office... it was fine. However, upon trying it on my home computer...Windows can not open it.

I took it to Kinkos, but they couldnt open it there either. The guy told me that the file has truncated data.

Is this thing toast...or is there a way that I can recover the truncated data on the disk?

thanks in advance.

[Icemaster]

How big is the .jpg? I've got a couple of tools I could try, but if it truly is truncated data, you might need to get another copy. Without the disk, it's tough to tell.

[Sonic dB]

Its a little less than 1 MB

[Icemaster]

If you want, email it to me. I'll see what I can do with the file. The only disk recovery tool I've got at home is too big to email.

pschneid@pomeroy.com

[Eric Coffey]

Try opening it w/ MS Paint.

[Sonic dB]

Ice...thanks for the offer, but I cant get it off of the FDD... if I could then Id open it myself. What happens...is that Windows gives an error message saying that it cant open it.

No program will open it, even MS Paint, so I was hoping that there may be a special program that could specialize in corrupt data or something...

[Sonic dB]

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[id10t]

Norton disk doctor can probably fix it. If possible, make an image of the floppy as well (don't know how under windows, really easy under linux).

[Icemaster]

I'm trying to find my copy of NDD - if I've still got it (haven't used it for a while...) I'll zip it and try to send it to you.

[RickM]

You probably have bad sectors on the Diskette....probably physically defective. Very tough if not impossible to recover a JPG is this situation.

I would copy the file from the diskette to your hard drive and use one of these utilitys. If you can't copy try running against the diskette directly.

http://www.webattack.com/get/jpgfixer.html

http://www.claymania.com/zefrjpg.html

It could also be possible that the source diskette drive can read but not others. I 've seen this happen but not recently.

[adrian jaye]

Nortons can gereally do this,
but you'll prolly fine the disk is toast.

there are tools which may fx, but they cost 100's of dollars
and no g'tee

[RickM]

When the JPG info stream (or header) is interupted by a void in compressed information it is near impossible to fix. The file must be refigured and rebuilt. Only a JPG rebuild utility will do that. It is not handled the same as other files that Norton DD can fix.

[dad911]

Try to read it in a different floppy drive, on a few different computers. The disk dive alignment may be off.