Corrupted JPG files - How may we recover them?

[The Stigenator]

My friend has a CD back up pictures she made right around the time she reinstalled (because of a virus i think) that has issues with some JPG's in certain folders.

There are about 400 pictures, all JPG's that have the file and size but I cannot open the JPG to view them.

Any way we can rescue it. I did a DD in Linux and copied the disc think the CD was bad, but it wasnt. I think her hard drive either got messed up something else.

How may I read these files, I am lost. I've tried everything except a hex editor.

 

[gevorg]

IrfanView usually opens corrupt JPGs with partial view. Have you tried it?

There is also repair utilities like:
http://www.datarescue.com/photorescue/

 

[timswim78]

I've never had any success trying to recover corrupt files from optical discs, but hopefully you will succeed.

Have you tried scanning the hard drive to see if any files can be recovered? RECUVA is a free option, which works pretty well. I have also paid for R-TT, which has worked marvelously for me.