Need help retrieving lost set of pictures on DVD

[drangdloon]

OK, here is the situation.. My dad burned all his images (702MB) to a DVD-RW with nero about a month ago.. now a couple days ago, he burned another set (about 2MB)to the same RW without erasing the previos ones, with Drag'N DropCD.. Now when we load the disc into a computer, we can only see the second directory and second set of images, but if I use Nero disc info, it says there is one DVD session of 704MB.. How the hell do I access the other directory on that DVD to get to the first set of images he burned??

Thanks in advance.. Dan...

PS: when he looks at the disk with Drag'n DropCD(program used for 2nd burn) on his computer, it only shows the newest written files (2nd burn), and when I look at it with Nero, the program he did the 1st burn with, it says that there is 1 session, 704mb..when the dvd is loaded into windows, we can only see the 2nd burns files...



Also, there should be about 20 more directories and around 300 more images than shown in the pic.. Those are the ones I am trying to find...

[BJ_M]

you have a major problem in how the second set was burned ...

you might be able to use a program like dvdinfo pro and do a raw dump , that is about it i bet as the dir disk structure is screwed up ..

[drangdloon]

I could not figure out how to do a raw data dump from DVDInfo Pro, but this is what I get when I use DVDXRescue to do a disk analysis...

The following information was collected by DVD X Rescue
Copyright 1997-2003, Arrowkey, Inc.
Licensed to 321 Studios, Inc.

Table of Contents
There are a total of 1 tracks on disc, plus the lead-out.
         Disc is a DVD, type is DVD-RW
         This disc has 1 layers.
Track 1 occupies 360272 blocks (80 Min, 3 Sec, 47 Frames).
         This track was written by packet-writing software.
Lead-out track starts at block 360272.
---------------------------------------------
Data track 1 recorded as part of session 1.
This track was written by Prassi.
There are 14 accessible files and 1 directories contained in this track.
Note: UDF data tracks which are packet-written are not suitable for replication.  Use a different mastering program.
---------------------------------------------
There are one or more conditions that make replication of this disc questionable.

Dunno if that helps at all, but I REALLY need to help my dad get his images back.... What he lost was all his images from the last 1.5 years or so!

[hootie29]

Try this program PC smart recovery. It will scan your DVD and pull off any photos you have on it. Hope this will work for you.

http://www.pcinspector.de/smart_media_recovery/uk/welcome.htm

hootie29

[drangdloon]

Try this program PC smart recovery. It will scan your DVD and pull off any photos you have on it. Hope this will work for you.

http://www.pcinspector.de/smart_media_recovery/uk/welcome.htm

hootie29

Thanks for the recomendation... I tried it, and it only pulled the 12 files from the second burn off the DVD.. Still googling, and trying to research ways to get the files...I am starting to lose hope...

[thecoalman]

If the files were on your hard drive and you deleted them try the PC version of that data recovery app posted above. They will still be on the HD if they were not overwritten.

You may even want to try the pc version on the disc.

[drangdloon]

If the files were on your hard drive and you deleted them try the PC version of that data recovery app posted above. They will still be on the HD if they were not overwritten.

You may even want to try the pc version on the disc.

Well, the hard drive is going to be impossible.. The reason he burned them all is cause he had to send his laptop to toshiba, cause it was erroring saying something about a loose connection. Well, the loose connection ended up being something internal in the hard drove, so they had to replace it..

But, I will try the PC version and see what happens.. Thanks for the recomendation...

[drangdloon]

If the files were on your hard drive and you deleted them try the PC version of that data recovery app posted above. They will still be on the HD if they were not overwritten.

You may even want to try the pc version on the disc.

Well, the hard drive is going to be impossible.. The reason he burned them all is cause he had to send his laptop to toshiba, cause it was erroring saying something about a loose connection. Well, the loose connection ended up being something internal in the hard drove, so they had to replace it..

But, I will try the PC version and see what happens.. Thanks for the recomendation...

Hmmm, no edit post option... Well, I tried the file recovery version, and it wont recognize the DVD.. It is looking for logical drives (ie, c,d,e....)

[thecoalman]

I would look around for some different software. I know as far as hard drives go the data is never gone until it's been overwritten, not sure if this applies to DVD's but I don't see why it wouldn't. Since your second burn was smaller than the first at the very least there should be some images remaining.

You could always try a professional..... But that will cost ya some $$$

[BJ_M]

ou may want to image that disk and use the image file for your trials ..... plus it would be faster ...

you can send it to people like ontrack data recover also as mentioned, a disk costs about a 100 bucks to retrive i think ...

[hootie29]

I know you have already tried ISO buster , but here is a site in their help section that has steps to try to recover missing files on a DVD. You may have already tried this, but if you haven't maybe it will work.

http://www.smart-projects.net/isobuster/help/hs145.htm

hootie29

[drangdloon]

I know you have already tried ISO buster , but here is a site in their help section that has steps to try to recover missing files on a DVD. You may have already tried this, but if you haven't maybe it will work.

http://www.smart-projects.net/isobuster/help/hs145.htm

hootie29

Yeah, I had tried that method before, but I went ahead and tried it again, but with some different settings.. Figured I would play around with it and see if I could get anything.. But to no avail...I did not know you could send it to people to work on it.. I know it may be expensive, but it may be worth it to my dad...

[BJ_M]

http://www.ontrack.com/Homepage.aspx?id=2&pagename=Services

[thecoalman]

...I did not know you could send it to people to work on it.. I know it may be expensive, but it may be worth it to my dad...

Apparently some of those companies are very good at that. I was reading where they where they can retrieve data from non functioning drives or even physically damaged drives.... If I remeber that was in the thousands though.

[BJ_M]

not always that expensive , disks are pretty cheap i recall, i think only about 100$-200$ or so ..

[thecoalman]

I was referring to the physically damaged or non functioning hard drives.

[BJ_M]

oh yea -- HD's can be really expensive to retrieve when they are damaged and they have to rebuild and remove the platters ..

[drangdloon]

Just an update for you guys, and a big Thank You for all the helpful recomendations..

I found a program, BadCopy Pro (had to buy a liscense to save the data), over at www.cddataguys.com, that was able, in the mode 2 recovery, to find all the missing files.. They only problem I ran into, was that it recovered them all as individual files, 6 directories deep, in their own compressed zip folder, name file***.zip.. BUT!!! IT WORKED!!! I just had to decompress somewhere in the neighborhood of 1200 compressed folders.. But once I found a program for a mass extraction, it extracted them all to my dad's original file/directory structure that it was originally burned from.. YAY!!! There was a little bit of loss, as I only got about 680mb out of the original 700.. No biggie, at lesat he got about 95% back!..

Oce again, Thank you all so much for all the helpful suggestions and research.. It was greatly appreciated...

Here is a link to the software I used: http://www.cddataguys.com/BadCopyPro.htm

[thecoalman]

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaa!

That 5% that he lost was probably from the second burn.

[drangdloon]

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaa!

That 5% that he lost was probably from the second burn.

Unfortunately, they were not from the second burn.. the second burn files were recovered with all the first burn files...it actually stored them recovered as jpg's, not zips like the rest.. The loss was definately from the first burn.. Not a big loss though, and he is happy.. I dropped the new cd I burned with them on it, off to him a little bit ago, and he said he can live with that.. Mom won't have his hide now..lol..

[hootie29]

Glad you got most of them back.

hootie29

[Capmaster]

A happy ending 8)