Hello,
I have recently purchased an IDE to USB recovery dock so I can recover information from my old Windows XP installed hard drive and open it up on Windows 10.
I managed to use recovery software to recover all my pictures which are in JPG format. However, whenever I try to open it up in any program, or converting it using an online tool it says the file cannot be opened or may be corrupted, or in paint it says 'Paint cannot read this file, this is not a valid bitmap file or its format is not currently supported'.
I hope the hard drive isn't completely corrupted and it's due to the format not being supported on a Windows 10 machine as these pictures were recovered from XP.. or if its something much worse.
NOTE: Whenever I connected the hard drive to my PC using the docking device, I could never open it up in File Explorer because it would crash and wouldn't show up in Virtual Disk drive (partitions), so that's why I tried using the recovery software which meant I didn't have to try open up the hard drive but I was able to target it in the recovery software <--- this alone is proably why the image is corrupted and/or wont open.. but if so do you have any ideas why my hard drive is doing this and how I could fix this?
I look forward to any responses.
I have recently purchased an IDE to USB recovery dock so I can recover information from my old Windows XP installed hard drive and open it up on Windows 10.
I managed to use recovery software to recover all my pictures which are in JPG format. However, whenever I try to open it up in any program, or converting it using an online tool it says the file cannot be opened or may be corrupted, or in paint it says 'Paint cannot read this file, this is not a valid bitmap file or its format is not currently supported'.
I hope the hard drive isn't completely corrupted and it's due to the format not being supported on a Windows 10 machine as these pictures were recovered from XP.. or if its something much worse.
NOTE: Whenever I connected the hard drive to my PC using the docking device, I could never open it up in File Explorer because it would crash and wouldn't show up in Virtual Disk drive (partitions), so that's why I tried using the recovery software which meant I didn't have to try open up the hard drive but I was able to target it in the recovery software <--- this alone is proably why the image is corrupted and/or wont open.. but if so do you have any ideas why my hard drive is doing this and how I could fix this?
I look forward to any responses.