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    Data recovery - most recovered JPEGS won't open?

    Hi folks, I've been desperately trying to recover some data. I have used both TestDisk and Disk Drill. Recovery appears successful, and I have all the recovered files present (although some file names appear to have the beginning of the title missing and the rest is followed by an underscore...
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    Post data recovery: Can browsing porn sites lead to automatic downloading of photos onto hard drive?

    PS. Sorry the link didn't work - I was just trying to give an indication of the type of file name!
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    Post data recovery: Can browsing porn sites lead to automatic downloading of photos onto hard drive?

    Thanks John. Very helpful. Is the browser saving those specific images because he would've been viewing them online - either as a jpeg or as part of a video? i.e. if they're stills from a video - would he have been viewing that video in order for the browser to download stills into the cache?
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    Post data recovery: Can browsing porn sites lead to automatic downloading of photos onto hard drive?

    Hi again, I've just checked, and it is the case that some of these images are in the Temporary Internet Files folder under Internet Settings on the laptop. A typical image name is "http://img100.xvideos.com/thumbs a load of letters and numbers)" So, just to clarify, would those images have been...
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    Post data recovery: Can browsing porn sites lead to automatic downloading of photos onto hard drive?

    Thank you for your replies. Ever so helpful. The problem is, I recovered these images using TestDisk and Photorec - I didn't chose to recover as such but I copied the files over to an external USB. The files are all jumbled, in jumbled up directories, and have jumbled up names. I appreciate...
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    Post data recovery: Can browsing porn sites lead to automatic downloading of photos onto hard drive?

    Hi, I recently ran TestDisk and Photorec on an old Windows XP laptop to recover some previously deleted files for someone. This was my first time with data recovery. This someone is a male, and I was lightly warned that they downloaded some adult content and used the laptop to stream porn and...
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