MAC DVD-RAM Formatted by Roxio Drag to Disc: Trying to recover dat

[Guest]

Hello. Get this. I had a mac dvd ram that I was using on my windows system.
Somehow Roxio drag to disc started to format the disc for WIndows (they are
like rewritable DVDs, and this one was mac formatted). I stopped the format
after around 1300 bits were deleted, not that much, but enough to delete any
kind of folder structure on the disc. Now the disc is mainly Mac data (Music
files from a recording session on a mac), with a minute amount being windows
formatted. I have tried all of the "Easy ways out," but have come up empty
thus far. Transmac (a cross platform program) can find the folder which
contains my data, but says that it is corrupt, and will not show any of the
information. A mac won't read the disc. Windows thinks its a small windows
formatted disc. I did burn a disc image that I'm now working off of, and the
mac data starts at like block 1377 or something out of a 4.2 GB disc. So I'd
be okay if I could find a program to read the raw data. Any suggestions?
I'm open to any, though I've tried a few. A friend said that maybe a hex
editor and rawread would work, though I have no programming experience as of
yet, so I wouldn't really know how to use those. But I'm thinking if I can
get the data, that is, all of the data, there would be a way to break it into
individual files and create a folder tree somehow. Any suggestions?

 

[Richard Urban [MVP]]

Have you investigated any Mac utilities?

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Guest]

Yes, but it wouldn't mount the disc. We tried disc doctor and something
else. It tried to mount the disc for about a half hour, forty five minutes
and then nothing.