Mark

Sorry to hear that.
My backup files were useless also (different issue), hence the attempt at
HandyRecovery.
Fortunately, I had better success with the program.

If it's not too late...
1. When you recovered files, did you send them to a different drive so they
would not over-write your data?
2. Attempt to recover whole directories first?
3. Did you attempt to recover various versions of the same file? (One of
them may not be corrupt. [No write-overs in the middle of the file.])

"I'ecus" <iecus@rcn.com> wrote in message
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> yes I did have a backup! on a seperate partition and I had a ghost image
> on the same separate partition. I was waiting for my external drive to
> come in and then copy it over there, but it's to late. when I take the
> ghost image and explore through it, it's telling me the folders w/ the
> pics are empty, even though it was a image of the entire OS.
>
>
> Richard Urban wrote:
>> Corrupted files are just that. Data has gone missing from the file. It is
>> unreadable and pretty much useless. There is no way to restore a
>> "corrupted" file, other than via your backup. You DID create a backup,
>> right?
>>