Tricky Problem Involving Restoring A Dvd Project

[ashgarrathy]

Hi,

 

I have a tricky problem:

 

I created a dvd with all my high res family photos and produced a very nice DVD that have in my hand. However, my computer completely crashed and I lost every photo as well as the dvd project itself.

 

What I would like to know is if there is a way of decoding the already created DVD and recover all my original photos from the DVD back to their image format. I used the Roxio DVD Builder to create the photo slideshow DVD.

 

Does Roxio have software for this or is this something that just isn't possible?

If anyone has any other options then I very open to them - I am desperate to recover these photos as I only had digital copies and stupidly never made any back-ups of them.

 

Thank you for your time.

 

Ash

[grandpabruce]

Hi,

 

I have a tricky problem:

 

I created a dvd with all my high res family photos and produced a very nice DVD that have in my hand. However, my computer completely crashed and I lost every photo as well as the dvd project itself.

 

What I would like to know is if there is a way of decoding the already created DVD and recover all my original photos from the DVD back to their image format. I used the Roxio DVD Builder to create the photo slideshow DVD.

 

Does Roxio have software for this or is this something that just isn't possible?

If anyone has any other options then I very open to them - I am desperate to recover these photos as I only had digital copies and stupidly never made any back-ups of them.

 

Thank you for your time.

 

Ash

 

You could capture the DVD back to a hard drive, then extract frames in VideoWave, but the quality of the extracted frames will not be anywhere near what the originals are.

 

Are you sure that those photos are not on the crashed hard drive?

[ashgarrathy]

You could capture the DVD back to a hard drive, then extract frames in VideoWave, but the quality of the extracted frames will not be anywhere near what the originals are.

 

Are you sure that those photos are not on the crashed hard drive?

 

 

Apparently the hard drive has been physically corrupted/damaged and a data recovery service have quoted me something like £600 to recover anything from it. I don't know any other way to recover files from this type of damage. I can't even access the hard drive to run any cheap recovery software.

 

I have also tried your other suggestion of capturing images from the frames on the DVD (not in VideoWave tho) and yes you are right, the quality was very poor - no where near enough to get some quality photo prints.

 

Any other suggestions?

[grandpabruce]

Apparently the hard drive has been physically corrupted/damaged and a data recovery service have quoted me something like £600 to recover anything from it. I don't know any other way to recover files from this type of damage. I can't even access the hard drive to run any cheap recovery software.

 

I have also tried your other suggestion of capturing images from the frames on the DVD (not in VideoWave tho) and yes you are right, the quality was very poor - no where near enough to get some quality photo prints.

 

Any other suggestions?

 

Outside of paying to have the data recovery outfit recover those files, I have no suggestions. I guess it depends on how much value you place on those photos. Before I would pay anything, I would strike up some kind of agreement that if they could not get the photos, you would have to pay nothing outside of a small fee for them trying. That could go over like a fart in church, however.