In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, mike6
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> hi there
>
> old dummy me accidently quick erased a cdrw with info i
> needed, I think it only erases the table of contents. Is there a
> way too read / recover the info still on the disk?
Try a search in Google using "quick erase" including the two
double quotes. I got this post in Dutch as an example (translated
with babelfish.altavista.com):
Subject: Re: Undo "quick" erase or format (CD-RW) *
Newsgroups: nl.comp.cd-branden
Date: 2002-08-07 04:55:20 PST
"Menno" <
(E-Mail Removed) > wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Stupid, stupid, stupidly...
After I CD-RW have per-ongeluk > ge-quick erased I have gone in
search to a tool > that this can possibly make.
Making is impossible, at best circumstances still a number
of date sectors can you recuperate. In theory even all date
sectors because nothing of the user erased could area. Most of
the drives refuse however read dates of a ' empty ' CD. With my
Plextor 12/10/32 this succeeds but it is rather complicated.
To me, that implies you can recover the data sectors, assuming
you can find a drive that will tolerate the missing TOC. Maybe
some kind of "raw copy mode", that will copy all 650MB of
whatever data bits are on the disk, followed by using a
data recovery program on the recovered image, will work ?
A data recovery program might not work too well, if used against
the CD drive directly, if you believe the post above.
Another post states:
The CD-R FAQ says the following, which made me think it is
not:
> The difference between "erase" and "quick erase" is that
> the former erases the entire disc, while the latter just
> stomps on the Table of Contents (TOC). It's like erasing
> the directory off of a floppy disk. The file data is still
> there, but since there's nothing pointing to it, the disc
> appears empty."
so do some more Googling and maybe there is a recipe somewhere.
I found this one by combining "quick erase" and recovery
as search terms:
http://groups.google.ca/groups?selm=...21E9%40cpl.net
HTH,
Paul
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