can't read disk

[Rodney McFarland]

I have a 9110i cd writer. My wife was accesing on of our picture disks today and when she put it in the computer she said it said she needed to format it, she said no and now we can't do anything with it. I ahve tried other disks and everything is working perfect with them but this disk says unrecognized media. There is 3 months worth of pictures on this disk that we haven't backed up anywhere else, we desperatley need to get these back. I can't format, read, access or do anything else with theis disk. When I install it it causes quite a fit with my computer, it stalls, close program reads not responding at times, What do I do?? I suppose it's lost it's directions but I don't know how to put the directions back on. It is a cd-r disk so I suppose I can't erase anything accidently, but if I can get it to reformat will it find the jpegs and allow me to get to them?
Rodney McFarland

P.S. This thread has been moved from Disk to Optical Jukeboxes & Drives. -HP Forum Moderator

[Olaf Tomaszewski]

How did you create this disk - what type: disk at once, track at once or was it formated and incrementally added pictures ? Have you used this disk before - i mean it wasn't first use after recording ?
For sure - don't do anything with this cd - try to read them in other CD and CD-RW drives. If it will not work you have one more chance. Becasue you are not specialist i suppose - find someone who can restore data from disk - it may be profesionall company or just a hacker which can use for example Disk Editor.
Good Luck !

[Paul R. Dittrich]

I have seen and experienced similar problems with other CD-R drives. The common factor seems to be the Direct-CD software that allows you to use the CD as removeable disk like a floppy. Were you using it this way?

I have never successfully revived a Direct-CD disk once it gets corrupted. Your only recourse may be a data-recovery house. Sorry.

Paul

[paul courry]

One word--- Kinkos's.

They have PC's with burners. Take it there, read it if you can and make a new copy.

[Cormac D]

HI Rodney,
You might have a program installed called 'Scandisc' that came with Direct CD, this will allow to you to retrieve information from a corrupt CDR disc.
You could also try CDR Diagnostic which will work for CDR/CDRW media, a demo can be downloaded from:
http://cdrom-prod.com/download.html

[Anne Donahoo]

I had that same problem with a Direct-CD disk. I had photos on a CD-R disk that could not be accessed. I ran Scandisk that is part of Direct CD and it recovered the files. I copied them to another disk. Now I have 2 copies.

Anne