i put some photos of my daughters birthday on to my computer in a folder then i burned them to a CD-R disk now when i put the disc in the computer it says there is no disc in and does not register that it is there ? is there any way to get the photos off the disc ?? i can see on the disc where the image is burned and i have played the disc about 8 months ago and it worked ???
My guess is that when you recorded the files you did so in what is called a "multi-session" recording that allows more data to be added at another time. The computer does this by avoiding writing a table of contents that would have "finalized" the disc and prevented any more recordings to be made to it. The computer will remember what was written to the disc in a temporary file as long as the disc goes back into the original recording drive--no other drive or player can read it until it is finalized. Some software writes multi-session data discs by default, and people inadvertantly leave them "open" and unfinalized. There is a way around it by using data retrieval or recovery software that builds a make-do table of contents for what it sees on the disc and uses that TOC to retrieve data files. If your lucky, however, you may be able to get the photo files from the disc if you put it back into the recording drive you originally used. A CD-ROM drive won't work; and if you have made large changes to your computer system, the temporary file may have been lost. I've used this method many times to recover data for customers. The other possibility is that the disc has been damaged in some way that prevents your drive from reading the contents.
Download and try a utility called ISOBUSTER : http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-cd-recovery-utility.htm#isobuster
many thanks for the reply. i have installed isobuster and it has found all the files on the cd but i dont know how to get the back onto my computer can anyone help with the use of isobuster ? thanks mykeie
Easy. Position the mouse over one of the CD files, right-click, and choose the top option EXTRACT objectname. It means the same as COPY, and will ask you where you want it copied to.
