Corrupt JPG's?

Just something that's been bothering me for a while. Sometimes, when transferring photos from my phone to my USB storage device, some jpg files become unopenable and "corrupt". I use irfanview to view files, and a message comes up referring to an unknown file header; unknown file format; file not found etc.

This doesn't really bother me that much, as the images I've lost have thankfully been pretty insignificant. Is there any way I can recover these images in the future, though? And can anyone suggest what I can do to prevent this corruption from happening? I doubt it's my USB device, 'cause it's always been pretty reliable and it stores mp3s fine.

Thanks in advance!

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I'm pretty sure I wait until the files have finished transferring every time; I doubt the corruption occurs due to my impatience. But for the future, yeah, I'll copy files over first and check to see if they transfer OK.

Sadly I don't have any samples, but I'll be sure to bump this thread when/if it happens again. As for what USB device I'm using, just a generic USB 2.0 1GB which I got off eBay (I know, I know, shady etc) but it's honestly never caused me any problems before. Perhaps I should look into getting a more trustworthy brand-name USB device?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Well I think the USB device is an Alcor Flash Disk USB Device, since that's one of the devices that appears in my connected USB devices list.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Because I am silly Oh well, thanks for the links Muppet, I'll be sure to be extra careful in the future anyway!

How ya doing, buddy?