multisession cd not reading all files

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Peter Carlson

I burned some photos to a cd, then a day later burned some more photos onto
the same cd using XP's cd wizard. The original files are no longer
accessible. Any idea on what I did wrong or how to fix this? The cd now
shows as full.

Peter
 
no I just ran a test and it handled multisession - just burned one file,
then burned a second one
I wonder if somehow the cd got finalized and that's what's causing the
problem?

Peter
 
Yves said:
I believe that XP's cd wizard can not do multi-session cds.
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It can. You put the CD back in the drive, and with Autoplay set to open
to view files in Explorer you see the files on it and a separate area of
files 'waiting to be written'. Those may have been stashed for burning
in the meantime, or more can be dragged to the area
 
But let's get back to the original problem :)

Why cant I see the original files placed on the cd? Is it possible that
somehow the cd got finalized and the first batch of pictures is no longer
available?

Peter
 
Peter said:
But let's get back to the original problem :)

Why cant I see the original files placed on the cd? Is it possible that
somehow the cd got finalized and the first batch of pictures is no longer
available?

Peter
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Go here: http://tinyurl.com/6sm and download ISO Buster, a free utility
that will allow you to see (and recover) everything that's on the CD.
 
Peter said:
But let's get back to the original problem :)

Why cant I see the original files placed on the cd? Is it possible that
somehow the cd got finalized and the first batch of pictures is no longer
available?
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My *guess* would be that you set up a batch of files to be written, and
only put the CD in when the burning wizard asked for a blank CD. So it
did not look to see if there was a session already there, and started
the disk over as a disconnected session. It is *not* an intelligent
piece of software.

If you loaded the CD in Nero you would probably be able to see the two
sessions if you look at Recorder - Disk Info. You can pick up either
existing session then as base for a new multisession burn (and hence
get a disk with set 1 but not set 2), but I don't know of any way you
can stick two quite isolated sessions back together
 
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