Ksellers Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 I formatted my CD last week to save some documents. Today when I went to open one of the documents, the CD quit responding and now all of my information is gone. Any idea why? Or what I can do to get it back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ogdens Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 I formatted my CD last week to save some documents. Today when I went to open one of the documents, the CD quit responding and now all of my information is gone. Any idea why? Or what I can do to get it back? What version of Roxio/Sonic do you have?. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bimicher Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 I formatted my CD last week to save some documents. Today when I went to open one of the documents, the CD quit responding and now all of my information is gone. Any idea why? Or what I can do to get it back? No idea since I don't even know what you have done. You posted in "Venue and Qflix" which obviously has nothing to do with your problems since V&Q is related to specific type of DVD video burning. Perhaps if you were to give some details on what program you are using ,etc someone can offer some help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendon Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 If you formatted the disc you must be using one of those 'packet-writing' systems which allow you to drag a file onto the specially formatted disc with Windows Explorer. Direct CD, Drag-to-Disc, and DLA are the Adaptec/Roxio/Sonic varieties, although everyone has one and they're all different and write often incompatible discs. If you've done this, you might be able to recover something off the disc with either CD Roller or ISOBuster, but after you use their trial program you'll need to pay for a full version to recover anything you've found. If you used an erasable [RW] disc it's more likely that the disc has failed, and your chances of recovery will be a lot smaller. Opinion: These 'packet-writing' systems were very useful when CDs were much bigger than hard drives, but they've always had disadvantages in stability and interchangeability and wear of the discs they produce and there was an element of gambling in their use. Now that hard drives are big and discs are cheap you would be better to forget packet-writing systems and use standard writing programs which produce standard, interchangeable, CD- and DVDROMS that can be read or played in any standard system. Erasable discs are very handy for trying things out or for temporary use, but never trust your only copy of a valuable file to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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