photos in a single file? This is a zip file? Try opening the file in notepad and past the first couple lines. Sometimes there's a clue in the first line or two in that gives indication of the file, such as PK for pk zip files, MZ for microsoft program files, etc. Also look for any clear text in the file since metadata might be in it to indicate what it is. As for the hex, surely it had a hex to ascii convert to one side or the other? If not and you have a Linux bootable CD, add bless hex editor and it will convert the hex part to text so you can check for clues.
One trick I've used in past is to take part of a corrupted jpg header and footer area off, paste that portion right into the middle of another working jpg file, and save it under another name and then open it. Often it displays most if not all the image that it wouldn't previously in the middle area and I can then do a screen capture to create a new uncorrupted file of it.
I'm despratly trying to recover one specific file of wedding photo's. I've used Recuva and GetDataBack. Each time I run the software I find the photo's I want to recover but it won't allow me to view them. I get messages that look like this: $C150.JPG and a message below that says "We can't open this file."
I've checked the Hex and know how to read Hex but don't know what any of it means:
Offset 0 - Bytes - AB A6 8E 6B 28 EC D9 05 ect.. Chars, whatever that might be is in symbols.
Is there any hope to recover these photo's? If so, how do I go about getting them back?
Thanks.

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