multisession cd not reading all files

[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

 

[Yves Leclerc]

I believe that XP's cd wizard can not do multi-session cds.

 

[Peter Carlson]

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

 

[NobodyMan]

I believe that XP's cd wizard can not do multi-session cds.

You believe wrong. XP's native CD writing tool handles multi-session
writing just fine.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I believe that XP's cd wizard can not do multi-session cds.

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

 

[Peter Carlson]

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

 

[Raymond J. Johnson Jr.]

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

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.

 

[Alex Nichol]

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?

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