Can't Open restored JPEG

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Dave wrote:

> I am running WME 2005 and deleted a whole folder of pictures by accident
> through on of the extenders (via network). Anways tried a couple differant
> recovery programs on the hard drive and could not find anything. I then used
> the recovery program on the camera that the photos where taken off of. It
> restored them and it says they are jpeg but i can not view them. I tried to
> use the software "IrfanView" and it said the jpeg extension was wrong and it
> should be a ".pcd" extension but when i let it change the extension it only
> opens a blank pink screen. Can anyone else offer any other advice. These
> pictures are very important to me .......thanks in advance.