HowTo recover jpeg images from corrupt memory card

I've spent a significant portion of my youth messing around with file system editing and partition table editing an was not going to give up on the series of photos I'd taken over the last couple of days - luckily it didn't need anything more than a couple of simple commands to recover all the photos. Go Open Source software.

This tutorial is written for Ubuntu, but should be similar for most Linux machines

Step 1 was to make an image of the card (to have a backup of it) using the venerable dd command.

• sudo - used to perform command as root user (i.e. have correct privileges)
• dd - command to copy data a byte level
• if=/dev/sdb - read data from /dev/sdb - you may need to change this depending on where your memory card it located.
• of=sdcard.img - save this to the sdcard.img file in the current directory
• bs=1M - Copy it in 1M chunks

Once this has completed you will need to run the marvellous program recoverjpeg on it.

First lets install it:

Then run it:

and you should get something like the following:

Check the images out and hopefully it works as well for you as it did for me.

Cheers, Mark