ECC5 DirectCD screwup causing file problem?

[Hilfy]

Ok, this is a little hard to explain, but I'll start with the details:

WinXP Home 2002 SP2, Roxio ECC 5.

 

A group of files was dragged into ECC5 thinking that this would be the same as browsing to the data to make a DataCD (it isn't). ECC5 started to format the disc for DirectCD purposes and since this is a lengthy process, the user thought the system had locked up and stopped the process in the middle and got rid of that CD. Subsequent attempts at CD drive use before shutdown failed due to "busy drive". Shutdown has cured that problem and the drive is fine.

 

The real problem is that the files that were dragged are now unreadable. They are (were?) .jpg files. Is there any way to recover them? They are family photos and unreplaceable. I'm hoping someone here who knows more about these processes can provide some help!

 

Thanks in advance, Hilfy

[gi7omy]

You could try cdroller or isobuster to see if they can read the files, but I've a feeling that you could be out of luck. There's a strong possibility the disc has been damaged and may prove unreadable.

 

However, the free trial versions of those programs will let you see if the dissc data can be read before you buy them to try to extract. If it can't, then you don't need to buy but the data could be lost completely.

 

What puzzles me tho is that normally drag and drop on direct CD was a copy process - surely the original files are still there on the source?

[Hilfy]

You could try cdroller or isobuster to see if they can read the files, but I've a feeling that you could be out of luck. There's a strong possibility the disc has been damaged and may prove unreadable.

 

However, the free trial versions of those programs will let you see if the dissc data can be read before you buy them to try to extract. If it can't, then you don't need to buy but the data could be lost completely.

 

What puzzles me tho is that normally drag and drop on direct CD was a copy process - surely the original files are still there on the source?

 

The disc was never written - it was stopped in the middle of the format phase and discarded and it's the original files on the machine that now will not open. I have one of the files here at work and I tried a program called PixRecovery and was told that there was no data to recover. In fact hubby just opened it with a hex reader and said it was all 1's... #$^@...

[gi7omy]

It's very unlikely that directCD caused that - as I said, all it would do is to copy the files over. For it to corrupt source files is something I've never heard happen before

[lynn98109]

Stopping in mid-burn can do unpredictable things, depending on exactly what was being done at the time. Someone else - offhand I doen't recall which board - has had 4 burners destroyed during cancelling in the middle of a burn - he blames the burning program but I lean toward other explanations.

 

Lynn

[Hilfy]

Thanks to everyone for suggestions and the info that DirectCD would be copying the files not moving them. This happened about 6 months ago so it's hard to torture the user for details of little things they did during the process. Just holding down the shift or control key during the drag could have forced a move instead of a copy without any involvement from DirectCD.

 

The nearest we can figure is that somehow the dragging operation was a move operation and the files were all prepped for delete from the original folder and then that never happened because the write process was never completed. Sound reasonable?

 

Hilfy