[rooster66]

Years ago I used Direct CD to copy programs and apparently I never finalized the disc. My current drives do not even recognize that there is a disc inserted. The only current version of EZ that I have is 6.2.1.130. I believe EZ came with my then new Quantex PC so it was late 90's and running either win 95 or win 98. I have some important programs on that CD so how can I view and transfer those programs? Currently I have XP SP3 Home Edition. Thank you.

[ogdens]

Years ago I used Direct CD to copy programs and apparently I never finalized the disc. My current drives do not even recognize that there is a disc inserted. The only current version of EZ that I have is 6.2.1.130. I believe EZ came with my then new Quantex PC so it was late 90's and running either win 95 or win 98. I have some important programs on that CD so how can I view and transfer those programs? Currently I have XP SP3 Home Edition. Thank you.

You may want to download a trial of ISO Buster or CD Roller. Both are CD recovery programs that may allow you to recover your files. Both have trial versions that will show you what they think they can recover, but you have to buy it to actually do the recovery

[rooster66]

You may want to download a trial of ISO Buster or CD Roller. Both are CD recovery programs that may allow you to recover your files. Both have trial versions that will show you what they think they can recover, but you have to buy it to actually do the recovery

Thanks, I already tried CD Roller and it also kept prompting me to insert disc. It did not recognize a disc was in the drive. Haven't tried ISO Buster.

[Brendon]

You didn't say what kind of disc they're on, but if the discs are rewriteable types [RW] then you may find they are unreadable after a few years.

[rooster66]

You didn't say what kind of disc they're on, but if the discs are rewriteable types [RW] then you may find they are unreadable after a few years.

Just your regular CD-R. Specifically, a Phillips CD-R80 40x 80 MIN/700MB.

[Brendon]

That's a bit more hopeful, but it sounds as if your DRIVE rather than your software is failing to recognize the presence of the disc. I'm not sure how you can get around that, and no software is going to recover anything if the drive insists there's no disc.

[rooster66]

That's a bit more hopeful, but it sounds as if your DRIVE rather than your software is failing to recognize the presence of the disc. I'm not sure how you can get around that, and no software is going to recover anything if the drive insists there's no disc.

I have tried to read the disc on three different PC's with the same result, "please insert disc." So I'm not really sure what ISO Buster can do. I just thought there might be a way of finalizing the disc with an older version of EZ and then using a utility to read it. Maybe I'm confusing the actions of a PC with that of a TV DVD Recorder?

[Brendon]

You won't be able to do any operation ON the disc unless you can somehow persuade a drive to actually recognize that the disc has been inserted. Neither IsoBuster nor CD Roller are going to help you until you're successful with that.

You might have some success if you used the same drive that originally wrote the disc, but no guarantees I'm sorry.

[rooster66]

You won't be able to do any operation ON the disc unless you can somehow persuade a drive to actually recognize that the disc has been inserted. Neither IsoBuster nor CD Roller are going to help you until you're successful with that.

You might have some success if you used the same drive that originally wrote the disc, but no guarantees I'm sorry.

Thanks, but it is very unlikely as that PC and all of its drives are long gone.

[Brendon]

Not wishing to "rub it in" Rooster but in case we can persuade some others to avoid the trap that got you, and which I don't know a way out of -

that's another reason why we recommend not to use packet-writing applications such as Direct CD, Drag to Disc, DLA, InCD for anything except very short-term storage use on the machine which wrote them.

[rooster66]

Not wishing to "rub it in" Rooster but in case we can persuade some others to avoid the trap that got you, and which I don't know a way out of -

that's another reason why we recommend not to use packet-writing applications such as Direct CD, Drag to Disc, DLA, InCD for anything except very short-term storage use on the machine which wrote them.

That's the one and only CD/DVD recording I ever made in that mode. Thanks for all of your time. I will reply if I ever get a PC to recognize it.

[Brendon]

Thanks. I'm sorry for your data loss, and I do wish you the very best with getting that disc recognized.

[silverstars]

That's the one and only CD/DVD recording I ever made in that mode. Thanks for all of your time. I will reply if I ever get a PC to recognize it.

Hi there rooster66,

I've just got a copy of easy cd creator 6, replacing version 5. I'm already getting some drive problems and having problems with initialisation. I keep getting error messages saying creator classic can't initialise because I have too many programs open. I was burning all sorts with version 5 last week, now 6 is causing problems and I only want to burn an .iso

I also then put in a drag to disc (UDF disc) for data speed testing, it thinks its a blank disc. I know 100% its not as I've had this before. I have in the past ended up installing an older legacy product to resolve this kind of problem.

I have also had this problem with drag to disc (UDF) DVD's. With one DVD, the computer (a friends) even started to re-format the disc!. I would not put any disc you think has valuable data thats re-writable into a random drive.

Luckily for you yours is write once, and you should be able to recover the data. I did use a small program several years ago when I first corrupted a CD-R, which I paid about £15 for. I will have to hunt for it though to know the name of it. But there is also a recovery function in Direct CD, that can scan discs, if that doesn't work, then maybe go to download.com and check for the various CD-R recovery programs there, which the techs have been mentioning.

Finally I have found sometimes that the drive it was burned on is the one that can recognise it best, but you say that the drive is long gone. Usually when the drive cannot mount the CD, even if the table of contents is damaged, the program I used could scan past that and recover data.

This may be useful to you.

This post has been edited by silverstars: 28 September 2009 - 04:00 AM

[silverstars]

Hi again,

Finally located the piece of software I was using.

Its called CD-R Diagnostic.

I had a look at the software company. I purchased this back in 2000, searched the web address, its now changed, it used to be - www.cdrom-prod.com, its now - www.infinadyne.com

Tried it on two UDF/Packet discs and it showed all the files on both. Had been having trouble mounting these since the last post I made.

This post has been edited by silverstars: 27 November 2009 - 04:20 PM

[Brendon]

Silverstars,

You're "NECROPOSTING" to a topic which died back in May, and Rooster66 has not logged back onto the board since then so he will never see it.

[d_deweywright]

Silverstars,

You're "NECROPOSTING" to a topic which died back in May, and Rooster66 has not logged back onto the board since then so he will never see it.

Well... maybe. Rooster66 may be subscribed, and would still get e-mail notification. But there's a good chance he's moved on from this problem. (Just playing devil's advocate.)