Vista has corrupted 30% of all of my JPG files
My HD crashed last week on my old PC. I was not too worried about it since I
had been backing all pictures up to an external USB drive. Bought a new HP
PC with Vista Home Premium. Now when I view JPG files from the external
drive they appear with lines in them and are all jumbled up. Not all files,
but about 30% of them are like this.
Is not...
program -- tried IRfanview, Xnview, many others
memory card (SD) - tried several
camera - tried at least 3
method of download - tried USB and SD card direct in PC memory reader
Even when I put the Ext. drive on an XP laptop, the images all appear the
same now. I have copied and pasted to another drive in the same PC and even
other PCs and no difference.
A few other strange items related... all thumbnails appear okay, but when
opened they are jumbled. Sometimes the files look different - ie. one file
could be jumbled in one program, then okay in another program, sometimes even
in the same program if I log off and back in the files appear different.
I can send copies of the files if anyone is interested. Please help. I am
very concerned that 30% of all photos I have saved the past 9-10 years are
destroyed.
Thanks for your help.
Kris
Re: Vista has corrupted 30% of all of my JPG files
All responses I have received so far are just defending Vista and stating it
must be something I know it is not. Is this a help forum or an advertising
forum for Vista?
Re: Vista has corrupted 30% of all of my JPG files
If you have an IT Guy at work, take the camera to him, attach the USB
cable, no need to load any software, copy them to his computer, see if
they are corrupt - if not, burn them to a CD/DVD.
If they are fine at his computer, then go back to your computer,
uninstall any software related to the camera, images, etc... Now,
reboot, and just connect the camera via USB, let the camera be detected,
copy the files to the hard drive, now open them from the hard drive -
are they corrupt?
Have you considered this could be a video card driver problem?
Change your video resolution to 1024x768x16bit color and see if you have
the same problem.
Re: Vista has corrupted 30% of all of my JPG files
I recently installed a Vista home basic notebook for a customer, replacing a
windows XP Home desktop.
Most .jpg pictues transferred to the new machine with no problems, but one
set of pictures on a DVD [1200+ images] will not load on the new machine
without up to 60% of them 'greying out' over about 90% of the image.
I can view the complete set on my windows xp pro notebook - NO PROBLEM
whatsoever, but whichever format is used to transfer these to the Vista
notebook results in the same problem - DVD, USB pen, SD card.
The incredible part of it is that when the images are viewed as thumbnails,
whether on the hard-drive of the vista notebool, or by accessing them on any
form of removable media, they initiallly appear as perfect images, almost
immediately followed by the 'grey-over' of over half of the images - you can
watch it happen. No image-viewer software will then display the images
correctly, and I have tried many.
Would appreciate any suggestions on how this issue may be overcome
Re: Vista has corrupted 30% of all of my JPG files
I corrected this issue by downloading the updated driver for my builtin
NIVIDIA graphics card from the ACER website. I have the ACER Aspire E380
with Vista.
I had the same problem with JPG files in Vista. I would upload pics
from my camera. When I would view them using "thumbnail view" you could
actually see the new pictures get corrupted one at a time. Every 4th or
5th pic would get grayed out partially, or the picture would turn a
strange color. Downloading and updating my NIVIDIA software corrected my
problem. I hope this will help out others.
A fix to prevent .jpg files from being corrupted in Vista
I corrected this issue by downloading the updated driver for my builtin NIVIDIA graphics card from the ACER website. I have the ACER Aspire E380 with Vista.
I had the same problem with JPG files in Vista. I would upload pics from my camera. When I would view them using "thumbnail view" you could actually see the new pictures get corrupted one at a time. Every 4th or 5th pic would get grayed out partially, or the picture would turn a strange color. Downloading and updating my NIVIDIA software corrected my problem. I hope this will help out others.