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CD-R data recovery - $reward$

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by isc unlimited

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I have a CD with approx. 610 MB of important stuff on it (mpg/avi files from presentations). I had added to it MANY times on at least 4 or 5 different sessions.

On the last burn, I achieved a buffer underrun. After a minute I was able to remove the CD from the drive. I put it in my CD-ROM to check the damage - only that LAST file was ruined. The rest of the data was fine and could be accessed. But now when I try and access it all I get is an error.

I NEED THE DATA ON THIS CD! It represents over a year of work. I have tried NSW UnErase, but it won't recognize the CD drive. I know the data is still "there", but the TOC/FAT table might be corrupt.

I am offering a $ reward to the first person to successfully help. Email me (isc_unlimited@hotmail.com) for details or with help. Thank you!

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by robert young

If you have added to this CD many times then I would suspect that it is in multi-session format. Try installing Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4 and use the session selector to drag and drop the files from your CD to HDD. Then back them up onto another CD as one single session and learn from the mistakes that we all too often make. Hope this helps and dont worry about the reward as I live in the UK anyway! :-)

Regards
Bob Young

by isc unlimited

I already had Adaptec EZCD 4.0 - used it to make the CD. Only problem is that whenever I put this CD in my CD-RW, the drive spins ifinitely causing a system crash. I was unaware of the "session explorer" however - that's why I rated this as "Helped Me", cuz it did. As for the CD - data was recovered thanks to some local data recovery people - byte by byte, but recovered. Lesson learned.

~Adrian

by jlessick

The Adaptec Direct CD software also has a scandisk utility that was created for your situation. It should do the trick for you.

by isc unlimited

(See description above - CD-RW trouble with CD) I also rated this "Helped Me" since I was unaware of the DirectCD scandisk utility - Thanks!

~Adrian

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