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Nicole -> Recovering Data From a CD? (9/2/2007 8:49:44)

Hi guys,

I have a CD with photos I've taken over the past couple of months.

The last time I've tried to use this disk to retrieve photos to attach as email attachments or whatever, it's sat in my CD drive and made a real "churning" sound until 10 minutes or so later it decides to read from the disk and I've been able to do with the images whatever I wanted to.

I've just attempted to do this again, and after the 10 minutes or so of "churning" I'm now unable to open any image. It's coming up with the folder list but opening them isn't displaying any images.

I was prepared tonight to transfer the contents of this disk back to my hard drive and re-copy them onto another disk, but I just can't see the files now, and I'm getting a Windows Explorer message saying that it can't read from disk.

Is there any way I can recover these files?



BobbyDouglas -> RE: Recovering Data From a CD? (9/2/2007 12:14:52)

I'm leaning more towards your CD ROM drive having an issue, rather than the CD itself. Best bet is to try the CD in another computer first.



d a v e -> RE: Recovering Data From a CD? (9/2/2007 14:44:17)

have you tried cleaning the cd with a soft lint-free cloth, wiping from the inner to the outer edge in a straight line? do you see any major scratches/finger prints/jam/pizza sauce/... ?



Nicole -> RE: Recovering Data From a CD? (9/2/2007 21:22:01)

BobbyD - on my other computer the 2 disk drives won't even open, serious maintenance is needed on it so I can't really yest it there. I have a disk cleaner disk here that I'll try a little later on, but other CD's work fine.

Dave - There is a small scratch on the disk, but checking all my others, there's scratches on most of them too. It's not really a scratch that you can feel, it's more a line or marking that won't rub off easily.



Nicole -> RE: Recovering Data From a CD? (9/5/2007 5:36:16)

I ran that disk cleaner through the drive last night and then put the offending disk in and was able to speed up the photos on the disk being visible in Windows Explorer but it still wanted to spit the dummy.

I managed to recover all but a couple of photos off the disk and then saved them to the hard drive and then another disk.

I wouldn't be surprised if the size of each photo was to blame. They're pretty large but that's what good cameras take, and that's also what CD's are for, to take large chunks of data off the hard drive?



caz -> RE: Recovering Data From a CD? (9/5/2007 6:22:02)

Hmm, perhaps you should be thinking along the lines of DVDs? Mind you CD life for archival purposes has been in question for some time but I don't recall anything about the life of DVDs. What about an external HDD?



Nicole -> RE: Recovering Data From a CD? (9/6/2007 21:35:31)

Hi Caz,

I must admit I'm a bit outdated when it comes to using these things for backup purposes. The only memory stick I have is one I got free when I bought this computer about 2 years ago and it's quite small.

Thing is though, I had trouble saving some client files onto a CD yesterday and just assumed that the only 2 space CD's I had were corrupted or unwriteable for some reason.

But I turned my computer off last night before bed, probably the first time in a week or two that I'd actually turned it off overnight and today I've been able to save those files onto the same two disks that wouldn't work yesterday!



womble -> RE: Recovering Data From a CD? (9/7/2007 4:17:24)

I use an external HDD for my photos and large graphics so as not to clog up my main HDDs. In my experience HDDs are a lot less tempermental than CDs. The external HDD I'm currently using is way bigger than my main HDD on my laptop, but with the prices falling as much as they have I got one over 300Gb for quite a bit less than £100.



d a v e -> RE: Recovering Data From a CD? (9/7/2007 5:09:24)

and hard drives are quicker than messing about with cds and the like



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