I've been stuck for days with this problem. My recover program creates 50 jpgs but none of them show.

When I look at the first 4 bytes of each, bytes 2 - 4 are correct for JPG signature.

But byte 1 is always 0 instead of 0xff. I don't understand how this could be happening. What am I missing??? Thank you for suggestions!

int main(void)
 {
//open raw data file 
FILE* rawfile = fopen("card.raw", "r");

 // buffer to hold 512 bytes from fread 
    typedef uint8_t  BYTE;
    BYTE buffer[512]; 
    char title[7];
    FILE* img = NULL;
    int search = 0; 
    int picnumber = 0; 

  while (feof (rawfile) == 0)
  {
      fread(&buffer, 512, 1, rawfile);

   //check for next jpeg signature 
       
            
       if (buffer[0] == 0xff && buffer [1] == 0xd8 && buffer [2] == 0xff && (buffer [3] >> 4) == 0xe)
          {
              

          //close current
            if ( search > 0)
            {
             fclose(img);
            } 
            //open new JPG and how to display file name 
              sprintf(title, "%03d.jpg", picnumber); 
              img = fopen(title, "a" );
              
             //write from buffer to new jpg, 
            fwrite(&buffer, 512, 1, img);
            picnumber++;
            search = 1;
          }
      else if (search > 0)
         {  
        fwrite(&buffer, 512, 1, img);   
         }
  }

  

}