Guides

• Why recovered photos turn grey or shift halfway down

  A few kilobytes lost, and everything after them lands in the wrong place. Why, and how it is repaired.

• Photos from an old CD come out grey or broken

  Old CD and DVD backups are failing. How to copy off what the disc still gives, and how the photos are repaired.

• PhotoRec recovered my photos, but they're broken

  How carving programs find photos, why some come out grey or with part of another photo, and what still helps.