Can not read CDrom, please help

[Azrael]

Hi guys,

I am having a bit of a problem reading a cdrom of mine, I'll do my best to explain the problem I am experiencing.

While I was on holiday I made lots of pictures with my digital camera, the first 300 of which I burned to a CD recordable I named 'NZ I'. I had left the cdrom open so I could add more stuff to it and after a few weeks I burned some more pictures to the same CD. Unfortunately the second program I was burning with changed the name of the CD from 'NZ I' to 'My Disc' and now I can only access the pictures that I burned the second time. Does anyone know how I can access the other pictures?

Thanks in advance,

Stephan

[Whoha]

it may have overwritten the data. if the pictures were ever on the harddrive try getting a file restore utility, it is a long shot but occasionally it works.

[LordShiva]

I don't think you can overwrite data on CD-Rs. More likely the updated file table is ignoring the earlier session.

Don't know how to fix it though

[Azrael]

I burned the pictures in an Internet cafe so they went directly from my camera to the CD itself :-(. I forgot to mention earlier that when I look at the properties of the cdrom it says that it has a disc size of 300MB while it is a 700MB cdrom, so I am sure that the older pictures are still there somewhere..:-S.

[Whoha]

Originally posted by LordShiva
I don't think you can overwrite data on CD-Rs. More likely the updated file table is ignoring the earlier session.

Don't know how to fix it though

If it was a CD-R he couldn't write to it twice and thats his problem.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Whoha
If it was a CD-R he couldn't write to it twice and thats his problem.

You can write to CD-Rs twice, or several times. Just not in the same physical location on the CD.

[Whoha]

meh, every time i've burned I've had to have all the data ready the first time.

[LordShiva]

You need to make sure your burning software (and CD-R) supports "multisession."

[Azrael]

Lord Shiva is right on this one, you can write multiple sessions to the same CD-R which is exactly what I did. Problem is I've never had it happen to me before that it changed the name of the disc :S. As I said the data is there, I just need a way to access it.

[SlowwHand]

Yes, indeed he is correct. I know Nero prompts.

[Az]

fake Az

[Petek]

Originally posted by Azrael
Lord Shiva is right on this one, you can write multiple sessions to the same CD-R which is exactly what I did. Problem is I've never had it happen to me before that it changed the name of the disc :S. As I said the data is there, I just need a way to access it.

This product might be able to recover your pictures. They have a free trial copy. I doubt that the free copy will actually do anything, but it doesn't hurt to try. Is it worth $40 (the purchase price) to get your pictures back? You also could Google "cd-rom data recovery" to find similar products.

[Azrael]

.Thanks Petek, that is exactly what I was looking for . Now I'll just have to decide whether it's worth the 40$ .

[Ari Rahikkala]

http://www.isobuster.com/ does it for slightly cheaper... and there probably is a way to do that for free, we just haven't found it so far.

[Azrael]

Yeah, I have been searching myself as well. The cheapest I found so far is 19,95, so that's doable. I'll wait for a while though to see if anyone else comes up with a different idea .