taxi ray 170 Posted May 5, 2014 Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 Has anyone any experience of cd recovery. My daughter bought a cd that contained some photos of her and her friend on a jet ski last week in Turkey,she watched the man do the disc and everything seemed ok, on putting the disc into the computer. it says that there is about 188mb of data, but it does not show any files. I tried a program called isobuster, this seemed to find 28 files that were pictures. I cant see the pictures, they want $50.00 to enable different functions on the program so that I can see them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted May 5, 2014 Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 Maybe they never closed the session after writing the data? Some here will be more expert than me in this? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilboro-lad 294 Posted May 5, 2014 Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 Sounds like a scam to get more money. They've probably used some kind of encryption software that needs a key release. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted May 5, 2014 Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 Format?? What format are the pictures/files.??? I save all photos in a different format than jpg as jpg is a lossy format, could the feller who "burned" the CD have done the same thing?? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted May 5, 2014 Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 Can you see the disk/directories/files in 'my computer' Quote Link to post Share on other sites
taxi ray 170 Posted May 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 Mick, there are no files shown at all, I have even checked for hidden files. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted May 5, 2014 Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 If no files are shown, it's an empty disk. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted May 5, 2014 Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 It must be empty with session closed, or you would be prompted to process it and add files? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 242 Posted May 5, 2014 Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 Two things: Firstly, does it "look" like it has been written to - it should have an area that is a different shade to the rest of the disk? Secondly, if it does look like it has been written to, try it on a different computer. It is possible that either the drive that wrote the disk, and/or the reading drive are slightly out of alignment. If this is the case, and the mis-alignment "adds up", the disk cannot be read at all by some drives. I have encountered the alignment "addition" issue before. It tends not to happen in newer drives, but older ones were often slightly "off". I have also encountered a situation where a DVD drive would not read a CD - in fact I replaced that drive just a coupe of weeks ago! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
taxi ray 170 Posted May 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 Limey, looking at the disc the inner third is a darker shade than the outer,when I tried the disc recovery program, it found 28 files that were shown as pictures, the picture sizes were all there and different, and the time that the picture were taken was shown that corresponded to when she was on the jet ski. I am confident that the pictures are on the disc, but as for getting them I dont know what else to do. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
taxi ray 170 Posted May 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 I have tried the disc in 2 laptops, and an external hard drive, all show nothing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
taxi ray 170 Posted May 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 This is a couple of photos that I have taken. AT bottom left it says no files. After clicking properties it shows this, it still says no files but shows data on the disc. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilboro-lad 294 Posted May 5, 2014 Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 If they want fifty bucks for a remote unlock then it is encrypted. Either pay up or dump it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted May 5, 2014 Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 Hang on, Its the program that is asking for $50, not the original seller of the CD of images. There must be other programs out there? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted May 5, 2014 Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 Just found this free piece of software for recoving lost files on disks.. http://download.cnet.com/CD-Recovery-Toolbox-Free/3000-2352_4-10646814.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted May 5, 2014 Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 And here's another freebee.. http://www.powerdatarecovery.com/cd-dvd-recovery.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
taxi ray 170 Posted May 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 There are lots of programs that can do this I am just hoping that someone has a bit of experience doing it. It is like anything, easy if you know what you are doing. This wouldnt have been a problem before, as she normally takes her laptop with her, but this time took a tablet. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted May 5, 2014 Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 Never had any problems with CD's other than the odd blank one that was faulty. I backup all important files to at least one CD and my external hard drive, as it's so easy for something to get lost, damaged or corrupted. Make sure you keep valuable data CD's out of direct sunlight, they can/will get corrupted by strong UV light. I have recovered files for the missus off of damaged hard drives, but like I say, have never come across a faulty CD other than new ones that are unrecordable. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted May 5, 2014 Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 I also change all jpg photo files to BMP, as I mentioned earlier, jpg is lossy, each time it's expanded and saved, it loses some data, whereas BMP doesn't. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Enigma. 1,533 Posted May 5, 2014 Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 have you tried unticking hide hidden files ? to see if that helps Quote Link to post Share on other sites
taxi ray 170 Posted May 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 I have used the 2nd program that Ayupmeducks linked to and it took me about 10 minutes, I got all the photos, so a job well done. But I am still baffled. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted May 5, 2014 Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 Sounds like there was some corrupted data on the disk. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted May 5, 2014 Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 We got collared by the hotel photographer, end results were fair but they wanted 30TL (£10) for each picture. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted May 5, 2014 Report Share Posted May 5, 2014 Good grief Mick!!! I'd have pulled my tripod out, set my camera up and took a selfie with my remote, then given him the finger....LOL Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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