I'm copying the thing that you've posted, and once I'm offline, I'll
boot up Linux and try your way.

Thanks !!

Thanks for the link !! I'm downloading the files as I type.

Thanks again !!!

Yes, I did, but for those thousands of pictures that causes my head to
suffer massive hairloss, not yet backuped.

These are recent photos, the oldest was about 4 week old.

I do burn the pictures onto the discs, however, I often collected
enough, as in hundreds-of-megabytes, before I do the burning. These
recent photos aren't yet sufficient to fill a CD.

I know, it's my fault !!

But anyway, thank you and all for your help !!!!!

Yes, I have backups, but those thousands of files on my disk are not
yet backuped !

Oooooooops !

and that's why I'm tearing my hair out, bunch by bunch right now !!

Hello all,

First of all, I need to thank all of you who have helped me so much !

My disk conked, and thousands of the picture files in it got trapped in
it. So I asked for help here and you guys have been so generous and
kind-heartedly helped me finding ways to retrieve the files.

Thanks again !!

Now, I need your help again. But this time, it's a little bit
different. You see, many of the "retrieved files" dug out with ZAR
(zero assumption recovery), chkdsk, unchk and so on, have file size in
the tens of megabyte.

For example, here is one *.chk file with 35,079,680 bytes, and upon
checking I found out that it was supposed to be a JPEG file. Using
graphic software, I got the information below:

    Packed Size:    35,079,680 bytes    (33.4 MB)
    Unpacked Size:    471,600 bytes    (460 KB)
    Compression:    -7338 percent

This shows one thing - a JPEG file that was 471,600 bytes in length
which is carrying an excess of 34,582,080 of junk bytes, and in order
to get the original file back, I have to find a way to get rid of all
the excess "fat".

    That's a lot of "fat" to be trimmed - from 33.4 MB back to 460 KB !

This is just one example, and there are more than 60 thousands of such
files, all waiting to be slimmed down.

    There lies my problem !

The thought of manually slimming down 60+ thousands of files is a task
too daunting for me to venture.

    So far, I've done 400 of them manually, but that is but a little drop
in the bucket !

Therefore, I need you help. I need to know if there is any utlity that
can retrieve the "true" picture file, whether they be JPEG, GIF, PNG,
BMP or TIFF. I really am looking for a utility that can automate the
process I mention above - to get rid of the "excess bytes" so to return
the picture file to its original size.

I don't care if the utility is a shareware, freeware or commercial
ware, as long as it can help me.

If you know of such utility that can do that, especially if it can do
batch process of thousands of file in one go, please tell me.

I appreciate all your help so far, and I apologize for needing more of
you assistance.

Anyway, many thanks to all of you !!!

Hello all,

First of all, I need to thank all of you who have helped me so much !

My disk conked, and thousands of the picture files in it got trapped in
it. So I asked for help here and you guys have been so generous and
kind-heartedly helped me finding ways to retrieve the files.

Thanks again !!

Now, I need your help again. But this time, it's a little bit
different. You see, many of the "retrieved files" dug out with ZAR
(zero assumption recovery), chkdsk, unchk and so on, have file size in
the tens of megabyte.

For example, here is one *.chk file with 35,079,680 bytes, and upon
checking I found out that it was supposed to be a JPEG file. Using
graphic software, I got the information below:

    Packed Size:    35,079,680 bytes    (33.4 MB)
    Unpacked Size:    471,600 bytes    (460 KB)
    Compression:    -7338 percent

This shows one thing - a JPEG file that was 471,600 bytes in length
which is carrying an excess of 34,582,080 of junk bytes, and in order
to get the original file back, I have to find a way to get rid of all
the excess "fat".

    That's a lot of "fat" to be trimmed - from 33.4 MB back to 460 KB !

This is just one example, and there are more than 60 thousands of such
files, all waiting to be slimmed down.

    There lies my problem !

The thought of manually slimming down 60+ thousands of files is a task
too daunting for me to venture.

    So far, I've done 400 of them manually, but that is but a little drop
in the bucket !

Therefore, I need you help. I need to know if there is any utlity that
can retrieve the "true" picture file, whether they be JPEG, GIF, PNG,
BMP or TIFF. I really am looking for a utility that can automate the
process I mention above - to get rid of the "excess bytes" so to return
the picture file to its original size.

I don't care if the utility is a shareware, freeware or commercial
ware, as long as it can help me.

If you know of such utility that can do that, especially if it can do
batch process of thousands of file in one go, please tell me.

I appreciate all your help so far, and I apologize for needing more of
you assistance.

Anyway, many thanks to all of you !!!