Repair corrupted CR2 Files with ExifTool

[trapped]

I seem to be having this same problem, i got the drive back from seagate they got the data off it but all my cr2 files seem corrupt, is there anyone here that could look at this for me , I am at an absolute loss  and i am hoping to find an answer the files are all in folders but i cant get them to import or read in lightroom or bridge photoshop, Thanks

[Phil Harvey]

If you send me one of the CR2 files I'll take a look, but don't get your hopes up.  My email is philharvey66 at gmail.com

- Phil

[Phil Harvey]

I got the files, thanks.

The fact that seven 27MB CR2 files compressed down to 1.8 MB in the zip file indicates to me right off the bat that the original raw data is lost.

Doing a hex dump, all of the files look like this:

Code Select Expand

    0000: 44 61 74 61 20 52 65 63 6f 76 65 72 79 20 4c 61 [Data Recovery La]
    0010: 62 73 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f [bs??????????????]
    0020: 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f [????????????????]
    0030: 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f [????????????????]
    etc...

Unfortunately it looks like they contain no useful data.

Sorry for the bad news.

- Phil

[trapped]

Phil, Thank You for looking at the file so quickly. I really appreciate it, these files came to me from seagate data recovery, I still have the infected or not sure what happened to the USB HDD, just unmounted itself one one day.. So i guess i have lost  over a TB of files, thanks for your efforts.