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kenny
This thing is making me go crazy...
I have a DVD (data disk) that I wrote about 9 months ago and I verified the
recording...
the DVD had original books and stories that we wrote. Now when we place the
DVD inside its not working at all! the surface has no scratch at all... I
have tried 3 DVD readers but all of them fail...
I have only been able to use ISOBUSTER to see that the DVD has a track 1
(this is of course natural) but I cannot extract the data...
its as if some energy or heat was applied to the DVD and all the data was
erased from the surface.... But if this was so.. wouldn't the other DVD and
cd's next to it suffer the same fate? Another backup we had was on a cd rom.
This too cannot be read! All the computers say that there is no disk ! After
close inspection I see a very small dot of the shiny surface of the disk
(the top side of the disk) that is missing and it is in the inner part of
the disk..closer to the hole, where the data starts.
I have tried various programs even booting into KNOPPIX hoping that with
Linux I could read the disks.. but with no luck... this one just cant be
seen as a disk at all! All the info I have seen on Google is about
recovering disks with scratches on the transparent side of the disk.. but my
DVD has no scratches and the cd has that small defect on the shiny side!
This is Murphy's law at work at its greatest... these disk that were so
important
were destroyed while other trash cds in the same box work fine!!!
Does anyone have any advice?
Thanks...
I have a DVD (data disk) that I wrote about 9 months ago and I verified the
recording...
the DVD had original books and stories that we wrote. Now when we place the
DVD inside its not working at all! the surface has no scratch at all... I
have tried 3 DVD readers but all of them fail...
I have only been able to use ISOBUSTER to see that the DVD has a track 1
(this is of course natural) but I cannot extract the data...
its as if some energy or heat was applied to the DVD and all the data was
erased from the surface.... But if this was so.. wouldn't the other DVD and
cd's next to it suffer the same fate? Another backup we had was on a cd rom.
This too cannot be read! All the computers say that there is no disk ! After
close inspection I see a very small dot of the shiny surface of the disk
(the top side of the disk) that is missing and it is in the inner part of
the disk..closer to the hole, where the data starts.
I have tried various programs even booting into KNOPPIX hoping that with
Linux I could read the disks.. but with no luck... this one just cant be
seen as a disk at all! All the info I have seen on Google is about
recovering disks with scratches on the transparent side of the disk.. but my
DVD has no scratches and the cd has that small defect on the shiny side!
This is Murphy's law at work at its greatest... these disk that were so
important
were destroyed while other trash cds in the same box work fine!!!
Does anyone have any advice?
Thanks...