OT: Data recovery from incomplete CD

Luis luis at anachreon.co.uk
Mon Jun 22 18:41:07 EDT 2009


Hiya,

I recall Nero having some settings that would force a copy. I haven't 
used it in a while, so ymmv.

Cheers,

Luis.


J. Landman Gay wrote:
> In the wake of my recently deceased hard drive, I have a CD that may 
> contain a few files I lost. It was created while standing at the Apple 
> Genuis Bar with my fingers crossed while my Mac was booted from their 
> utility hard drive. 90 percent of the copying completed before the drive 
> gave up and died. The CD was forced-unmounted while still uncompleted 
> and the hard drive declared a total loss.
> 
> While I have all my important files backed up, the CD contains a few 
> odds and ends I'd like to get back if possible. When I put the CD into 
> my Mac, Finder tells me it is a blank disk. Disk Utility doesn't see it 
> either. I know there are at least a few megabytes of data on it though.
> 
> I've tried a couple of data recovery programs but they won't work unless 
> the CD will mount, and this one appears blank in both OS X and WinXP. 
> Anyone know of a utility that could deal with this? Either OS is fine.
> 
> It won't be disastrous if I can't get the files back, but I'd like to try.
> 



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