HOW TO REPAiR CORRUPT/BROKEN PHOTOS AND iMAGE FiLES
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Follow this guide to repair your broken image files by swapping out their corrupt headers with working ones in a HEX editor! This method has been tested by me, and I can confirm that it works with Canon, Nikon and Olympus RAW image formats. Other formats like Sony and etc. should work as well.
XVI32 HEX editor:
goo.gl/jsVLHN
Twitter:
/ surpluss1
Written Guide:
pastebin.com/H...
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Introduction:
00:00 - 2:24
Marking of corrupted image header
(steps 1-19): 2:25 - 4:02
Deletion of corrupted image header
(step 11): 4:08
Saving prepared image without image header
(step 12): 4:20
Opening and copying a working header from another image
(step 13): 4:27 - 4:53
Marking, copying and pasting the header from a working image to the other image without a header (steps 14 - 18): 4:54 - 5:30
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Some of you have requested a written guide, so here it is: pastebin.com/Hx5KRKRF
I'll make a part 2 ASAP. Stay tuned!
After I did all the instructions. the image turns into black? what should I do? or did i do something wrong? pls help
@@bossbraiofficial Either image data itself is corrupted or you managed to somehow glue header for thumbnail to main image data.
FILE down please reupp!! thhx
@@ACIDGREENTECHNO Reupp: pastebin.com/Hx5KRKRF
please help me, win10 got corrupt after an update and had to reinstall. pressed the wrong option upon reinstallation which wiped out all my data. most of it i backedup on cloud storage but i have about 6 photo albums that i need to be repaired. the recovery tool EaseUS recovered the files however it's corrupt. i checked in Hex editor and it's all showing 0s in the string. please help me i'm desperate. 12years of memories in those albums :(
hit like if you didn't understand anything
hahaha
Clean the wax outta your ears.
LOL I thought it was me at first. But f me... Didn't understand a word
Precise and generous. My corrupted files were beyond this recovery and the image header was not available. In Hex editor, all it shown as FF.
Thanks so much for taking the time to explain the procedure. I'm a dunce when it comes to the code that runs our PCs, but I'd wondered if it was just a few bits corrupted that killed the whole image.
Yes. In fact, just one byte out of place or missing can cause entire image corruption. Usually this would be a MSB (most significant byte).
Some formats are more sensitive to byte order manipulation like PNG, Gif and Avif, but JPG is a little more forgiving.
Open a unimportant jpg image in Notepad++ and look at all that code!
Mess around by moving or changing any character you wish and resave the file.
Keep the image open in a browser window on the left, while you work with Notepad++ on the right.
Your image viewer will quickly tell you when it cannot render the file anymore.
Have fun.
I tried exactly the same process as guided in the video but in the end shows up the same corrupt image anyways that was fun
Hopefully, in the future of AI data recivery and repair, AI is able to solve such complicated, frustrating, and stressful tasks.
Got there in the end, though my issues were more technical due to the large video file I was working with. Successfully resolved a corrupted Blue Iris file .bvr video file.
When I try to search for "FF DA" I get "string not found". Any ideas?
FF DA is the SOS marker. It can mean the data you're looking at simply isn't JPEG data, it can however also mean the damage is not limited to header but also actual image data is affected. Some times you can still fix this but it requires more effort: th-cam.com/video/9XwhGObWCtY/w-d-xo.html
You just opened the same picture - Can you remake with different photos so show it works?
I get all the way to the last steps where you have us hit overwrite then a box pops up and it wants us to put something in it not like yours, yours turns red
I followed all the steps and while the preview image looks fine when I open the image it's all gray, you got a solution to this?
This doesn’t even work I click on the photo name it does nothing
Hello i do the same steps but but after clicking on search then find and unchecking case sensitive point and okay
String not found dialogue box appear what i do waiting for urs reply
Are you sure it works?. Can I send you some of my corrupted image please please please respond
try recovering a photo without replacing the header, beacause it's obvious in your video that you don't need the corrupt file cause you have the unbroken file
any unbroken file from same camera and setting will do. you don't need the exact same unbroken file of course.
How can I repair/restore a few thousand screenshots (png) ? I had them on another computer, when I put them on my current computer it says "It looks like we don't support this file format."
Did you ever find a solution to this problem?
@@CommanderWaterSoul no. I spoke with someone who said the problem was that they weren't copied/transferred correctly, and can't be saved. I had to delete them all.
please help me, win10 got corrupt after an update and had to reinstall. pressed the wrong option upon reinstallation which wiped out all my data. most of it i backedup on cloud storage but i have about 6 photo albums that i need to be repaired. the recovery tool EaseUS recovered the files however it's corrupt. i checked in Hex editor and it's all showing 0s in the string. please help me i'm desperate. 12years of memories in those albums :(
"i checked in Hex editor and it's all showing 0s in the string"
Then it can not be repaired. You can not poof data into existence.
👋 hi
Thank for everything
I did the same explanation, but I have the damaged photos, their codes are all very different, what do I do?☹️
My photos not open what can I do
hi,
is it possible to repair a raw file (25Mb) without metadata headers (0 appears) ? thank you
I keep trying to press f3 but nothing happens?
If it says "string not found" when pressing F3, your're probably out of luck.
So here’s a question for you.
What if the issue is that you have a corrupt photo but you can’t find which specific photo it is (like when transferring photos from iPhone to laptop)? I found on method of doing so, but it only really works well if you have a small number of files. But I have like 4000 or somewhere around there...do I have no choice but to go through them manually one by one or in small chunks? Or is there some faster way out there that I have yet to find?
Please if anyone knows any shortcuts to speed up this process, let me know! Thanks!!
Well, that question is rather philosophical. You might have Schrödinger's corrupt photo, but you won't know for sure if you don't accidentally stumble upon one. You hard drive might start getting corrupt sectors without you knowing. The best thing you can do AFAIK is to have a regular backup schedule and use a software to only copy new files/the differences between source and backup destination. Even then, you can't be sure if what you backed up was corrupt in the first place. There might be software out there that checks integrity of every single file on your computer, but I haven't done any research or taken any measures to prevent it personally. If you are certain that all of the files on your hard drive are healthy, and you do a full backup using your own Unraid server, you can set up that server to do weekly file integrity checks, in case one of your two Unraid HDDs are getting corrupt sectors, and Unraid will notify you. Which method do you use anyway? I haven't really thought of doing this before.
hello my jpeg files is corrupted through topi virus kindly help us to decrypt these files
friend.it says string not found.i tried many times
@Surpluss1\ I have one last photo of my father as he was in ICU. One photo. It was somehow corrupted. I am willing to pay to repair this file.
Are you able to help. thank you
my phone occasionally corrupt some images (jpg) gray out some parts or all of the image. after i use this method it still look like same with corrupted one
Does this work with PNG files?
And I had a hard time trying to click on the F3 button on my HP notebook laptop's keyboard as it wasn't doing anything...
thank u! its save my exam!
ok huge thank you. create a patreon so i can do something extra for you.
Thanks! I will try to set something up and get done with my follow up video ASAP this year.
Hii sir can we decrypt ransomware encrypted file using hxd editor ? Please reply sir we really need help 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
does this app needs internet ?
String not found !
if FF DA isn't found in damaged file then it may not be JPEG at all OR damage extends beyond header (so FF DA was overwritten). It's similar to this: th-cam.com/video/9XwhGObWCtY/w-d-xo.html
PNG corrupted file, search "FF DA" "string not found"
DOH! FF DA is a JPEG marker. So you will not find this in PNG files or if you do then that's just a coincidence.
Can you do this with MySpace photos ?
cant get it i have macbook
Hi, I followed everything you said step by step, but when I clicked on the resulting image it said We can't open this file....I need serious help
Hello, I need to fix some images. Can you help me I need to contact you directly. Thanks.
man can you share these corrupt photos? only for science purpose please¡
I know that Im a bit late but when I try to find the FF DA it says "String not found". It Would be great if there is someone who knows what to do in this case and I would appreciate any answers
if your file only shows FF FF FF FF. I think it is total loss. there is no data
Hi. Delete panna photava reopen panumpothu the file formate is not supported kamikkithu appatina enna pleae sollunga
Thanks for the video
I get a message 'String not Found'. What am I doing wrong?
Thank you
getting the same prompt as well "string not found"
if string ffda is not found in bad file then damage extends beyond header. it's same as message 'no sos marker found' in jpeg-repair. you can still try to repair, see th-cam.com/video/9XwhGObWCtY/w-d-xo.html
nice 600rr my guy. hope youre able to recover ur files.. ride safe
I need a help.I shot some photo and also some video but unable to open it.Check with some friends but they can not do much.Anyone can help me plz?
hi i have a lot of pics that not open
can i send it and you repir this?
i pay for this
plsss help me
string not found.
you from which country
Hi there..i got my pictures in a USB from a photographer.. half of them are corrupted..almost 4gb data.. plz tell can i recover them?
The fastest way to get them back would be to ask the photographer. If that isn't possible, I would follow the guide I've put up here.
What does string not found mean?
if string ffda is not found in bad file then damage extends beyond header. it's same as message 'no sos marker found' in jpeg-repair. you can still try to repair, see th-cam.com/video/9XwhGObWCtY/w-d-xo.html
To repair corrupted or inaccessible photo files, you can use Kernel Photo Repair software. Try it: www.nucleustechnologies.com/photo-repair/
is there an option available for Mac please? thanks!
Bro no way am doing all that procedure.
DONT WORK.
It isn't working for me. It's actually being saved as the picture I'm taking the header from. Can you tell me if I did something wrong or make any recommendations?
Hi! That should not be possible, because the header is completely separated from the image data. Some times the header can be longer and contain more instances of "FF DA", not two, like I mentioned in the video, and you may have to delete the part from the third or the first instance that appears and up to the top of the HEX code. You should also look for a pattern similar or equal to the one seen after the "DA" block in this video @ 3:24. The pattern I am referring to is "00 0C 03 01 00 02". That's a good sign and you should always delete everything from "FF DA" and up when you see a pattern like that right next to it. I will upload another video mentioning and explaining these exceptions very soon. If the picture you are trying to recover was on a damaged hard drive, it could however become mixed up and show up as a different one. If that's the issue, I would contact a data recovery center.
I stand corrected. It actually happened with one of the photos I just tried to repair. I will upload videos with updates if I manage to come up with a solution to this.
i have thesame problem the corrupted file next to "FF DA" during the first 3 search is not "00 0C 03 01 00 02" but the working picture does have "00 0C 03 01 00 02" after "FF DA".
Try searching more, until you find it. If you cannot find it, try copying and pasting after the first instance of "FF DA", save and check. If it still doesn't work, try after the second, third and forth and so on. If it doesn't work pasting after any of the "FF DA"s, then I don't know. The image could be broken beyond repair.
I CANT WRITE FFTA IN TE TEXT BOX, JUST FFA, WAT CAN I DO??
it's FF DA. T is not a valid hex number.
@@DiskTuna SO WHY SAY THAT TOE VIDEO?, TELL ME ONE PLEASE, I WANT TO RECOVERY MY PHOTOS AFTER MY HARD DISC FELT DOWN AND I SENT TO A RECOVERY COMPANY BUT PHOTOS STILL DAMAGED.
i have 1361 photos to repair
Is there a way to automate the process? Specially if you need to fix thousands of images
Have you found any??
Im just commenting to see if OP approval is needed.
I have hundreds of images that won't open. What do I do?
Weird Al Yankovic I’d suggest you follow the steps in my video? Or check out Disk Tuna’s image recovery program.
Fix what you can using a recovery tool automatedly, and then try to manually fix what it can't.
Bro actually my pics size its showing 0B and file corrupted how to recover that pics
Try using www.disktuna.com/jpgrepair-fix-and-repair-corrupt-jpeg-headers-and-invalid-markers/.
plz tell me JPEG format method :((
Just copy a working JPEG image header, swap it with the broken one in the JPEG picture you are repairing and save as JPEG. It's the same procedure for all file formats.
OK so I was using FF D8 and leaving the second FF D8 so Block select the Block before the second FF D8. Delete etc and save and i get a half image.
This was from a 256gb micro sd card on a samsung s3 photos direct to sd. lot of corrupted imagees. maybe should report to samsung? Maybe the data is being saved .
There also seems to be a large string of ff ff ff ff ff..... I used the replace function to delete them. searching for 4 lots of ff ff ff ff this had no effect to the partially restored image but reduced the hex string. removing 3 lots ff ff ff same i think replacing 2x ff ff then corrupted the image again. backup and try yourself.
only half an image recovered though. 2 seperate attempts 2 different files.
This is not working for me. After replacing the header with the correct image. It still shows me the old garbled image. Would you be able to help me further with a cr2 image?
Hi! You need to replace the header with another header from an image that works and that you can open. If it is an image taken by a camera you own, use the header in one of the photos taken by that camera. Some times the header can be longer and contain more instances of "FF DA", not two, like I mentioned in the video, and you may have to delete the part from the third or the first instance that appears and up to the top of the HEX code. You should also look for a pattern similar or equal to the one seen after the "DA" block in this video @ 3:24. The pattern I am referring to is "00 0C 03 01 00 02". That's a good sign and you should always delete everything from "FF DA" and up when you see a pattern like that right next to it. I will upload another video mentioning and explaining these exceptions very soon.
I just got a similar problem with one of my images. I will upload a solution if I manage to come up with one.
Full sized image? Or a embedded preview JPG maybe?
hello brother i need snap screen of this i cannot see well in full screen ... plesae i lost picture away from 480km on bike i want this pictures back
I'm having a problem with corruped pictures, after I transferred them my
cellphone to my computer, they got corrupted and besides that, they got
huge, like normal pictures with 2.5GB in size. They won't open. Is it
possible to recover them?
it doesnt work :(
Sir meri pic pe no thumbnails a rha hai
Can you please write in English?
Hey, can I get your help with photo recovery?
Photo repair is different from recovery. Explain in more detail pls.
Do you know how to do it on a Mac? Thank you
It's the same procedure, but you would need to find a hex editor for Mac. I'll make sure to include that in my next video. Stay tuned!
PLS HELP ME L JPG MY BROTHERS PICTURE :(
i'll go for the written guide :-)WHICH ISN'T AVAILALBLE ANYMORE!
I re-uploaded it here: pastebin.com/Hx5KRKRF
Can I repair jpg
Yes.
Appreciated
I have a problem and the fix
If you have a different thumbnail , but you can open it but not in photoshop or the file is not readable in some apps after doing this tutorial
You should upload it if its cr2 or raw image to a converter from eg - cr2 to jpg and download it
Less quality but better than nothing
Can't find a legit software to repair JPG files smh...
me too am so dissappointed
Give this one a try: www.disktuna.com/jpgrepair-fix-and-repair-corrupt-jpeg-headers-and-invalid-markers/. Probably the most legit one you will ever find.
why did u do a screen recording with microscopic resolution.
It's actually 4K, but you have a point. I should have zoomed in.
Loved the background..I have tried this..didn't work for me. Have tried a JPEG repair Software by Stellar.
Unfortunately it doesn't work in all cases, but I found it working in most of mine. Stellar's software is over priced and works only in very few instances, like any other automatic image repair software. Contacting Disk Tuna is probably one of your best alternatives if you're unable to restore them yourself.
How do I contact Disk Tuna?
@@schalazeal07 joep@disktuna.com
Pluss1 how much is it to have fixed by them?is it per picture?
@@toscanojocelyn7269 I suggest you first try the trial to see IF a file can be fixed at all. www.disktuna.com/go/jpeg-repair-toolkit/
who else has infowait?
can i repair my zip file?
This method doesn't work for zip, unfortunately.
Is it free?
can some translate this in english please? thank you
Good job but too complicated.
bro...can u pls recover my one file via TeamViewer like this way..??
Sorry, I don't have time to do that unfortunately. You will be able to do it all by yourself if you follow my steps in the video.
waist of time .................not works ,,,..Fake only one pic showing that already opend
Method does work IF damage is limited to header and if you're doing it right. It not working in your case is a not a reason to call this video a fraud.
should work nice. previously, we've used Restore.Media service for recovering video. Worked like a charm.
Still it's worth exploring new things
Good for you! I prefer learning how to do it myself, for free. I'll do my best to put together a how-to on DIY video recovery in one of my next videos, so stay tuned.
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i found a solution! it's download a picture from another browser!
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Why do you have to play such an annoying background music. I was not able to follow your explanation because the music gave me a headache.
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Piece of cake. Imagine having only 200 images to repair
LOL
Same here brother
i have about 1000 images to recover 🤦
i actully have the photoes on google drive ?? can u plz help me they are unable to open plz help
I don't want to hack nasa.......i just want to view my photo......
Don't we all? LOL
Thank you. It Really Works! In my case, I Already Find the "FF DA" with a first try so I don't search for other "FF DA". The result = failed. But at second try, I try to search another "FF DA" and I can find it below the first one. Then I replace it from that position and it works. Thanks again, I'm bit frustrated because I think I'd lost my photo but you saved me!
hey dude...big thanks for jpg repair walkthrough...for me it works for some but not others. but the most important thing is you have shown that you can do these things yourself rather than than paying money for crappy software. massive respect to you.
Thanks for seeing what I'm trying to do here.
@@Pluss1 Thanks for your reply....having had time to play around with stuff..two things stick out...the orientaion of the source camera...which means finding the right header...you might have to try a few before you get it correct. I am sure you prob said all this but thought i would pass that on....Peace.
Background music is annoying to keep focus on video. And your voice not match with video make me upset.
traveling to MARS will be easiest lol
ahhahhahaahhahaha damn it
Okay. Your vid actually inspired me to write a utility that sticks a JPEG header from an intact reference file to a corrupt JPEG.
Nice! That's why I made the video and posted it in the first place. It would be so great having a working app that could identify raw and compressed image headers on both working and broken files and have it batch copy the working one over the bad ones. I can just imagine how useful it would be for professional photographers and hobbyists.
Only for JPEG right now. I guess I could do similar for popular RAW formats. it's here:
www.disktuna.com/jpgrepair-fix-and-repair-corrupt-jpeg-headers-and-invalid-markers/
Of course I can only test against my library of corrupt JPEGs but it shows this method is much more effective than methods used by tools like Stellar JPEG repair. Drawback is that you need a sample file preferably shot with same camera and settings.
Awesome! I'll give it a try and include it in my next video. There are some things I want to add and explain better than I did here. Yeah, tried the full version of Stellar JPEG Repair, Picture Doctor 2 and JPEG Recovery Professional. Basically just a waste of money, didn't work at all. I'll warn people of buying them and refer them to you.
Great, thanks man!! Free version works, only batch mode disabled. But people can really use it. If you sent me an email (joep@disktuna.com) I can sent you the 'full' version.
That all being said ... I think way over 50% percent of JPEGs people sent me can not be repaired. So no tool or service can, simply because there's no image data in the file. But, for a very large number of corrupt JPEGs that can be fixed, the slap a header on the image data method works better than all those tools you mention.
Hey Neuro,
The majority of the corrupt JPEGs people sent me can not be repaired. Simply because in like your case there's some random non-JPEG data in them, or they're filled with zeros or some byte pattern (FF FF FF FF etc.).
So those can not be fixed because they're impossible to fix not because the utility sucks.
That being said, if you have a file that can not be repaired using the utility, you're more than welcome to send me the file so I can check if it can be repaired and if I need to so modify the utility.
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Hi
If I understood well, if I don't find "FF DA" only twice, restore is impossible ? 1st try it worked but after with another images I didn't find "FF DA" but "9F DA" and the repair didn't work. Another time I found "FF DA" one time and after I had the same image.
I know this sounds weird, but I need to way to turn a working image, to a broken one, essentially corrupting it
Here's an idea, put it into a removable drive, delete it, paste more files into the drive, use Recuva (or some other un-deleter program) to search the drive, then if the preview loads, paste more files into the drive until the preview does not show the file.
Good luck of you have 6000 corrupted files