how do i extract pics from an expired cdrom?

[randiniy]

I hope you can help me or send me in the right direction. I very new to all this ripping and burning. What I am trying to do is extract pictures from a cdrom that the viewing date has expired. When I put the cd in my player it gives me an "expired message".

There are about 200 pics on this cd I need to somehow get off the disk.

Can you lead me in the right direction in how to do this.

using window ME


thanks for your time,

novice

[Bob W]

Why can't you just use the "windows exployer" to view or copy the picture files to your hard drive?

[randiniy]

this cdrom was a "preview disk" of a friends wedding that a photographer took for him. now the cdrom had a message saying you would no longer be able to watch the slide show of the disk after a certain date. which has already past (July 7th)

so now when you put the disk in the cdrom player the only message you see is "the viewing time has expired".

the program is still there and all the pictures, i just need to know to figure out how to get into the cd and extract the pics.

[Dragonsf]

what happens, if you set your date on the PC to a previous one?
can't you open the cd-rom without autorun?(maybe you should disable that feature)

[Mike6453]

Have you tried just changing your computer date back before July 7th temporarily? This may be the only protection that is on the disk. If it works just copy them to the hard drive and reset your computer date back to the correct date. Hope this helps.

Mike

[smearbrick1]

right click on the CD-rom drive icon and click explore. It should show you the contents of the disc. It sounds like an autorun file on the disc is calling an executable to start, when it starts it recognizes the system date and kicks out the expiration message. I doubt it's encrypted so you should be able to just select the pics from the explorer window and drag them to another folder on your hard drive. I don't know if this will work either, but you could try changing your system time/date then inserting the cd.

[randiniy]

i back dated my computer....... and was able to save the program that the photographer used to my harddrive.


and i tried to use windows explorer to extract the pictures. no progress.

it gives me a icon and the only thing i know to do is click on it and then the slide show starts up. i want to extract the pictures from the cd and create my own slideshow and also be able to print some of the pics.

[Jeff Muller]

Well, it sounds like all of the pictures are embedded in an executable, in which case, there's no way for you to "extract" them... and it makes no difference whether the program's on the CD or on your hard drive. It checks the expiration date when it starts up. You'll have to do a screen capture (Ctrl-Alt-PrintScrn) of each picture as it's displayed.

Or you can use a tool like CamStudio to capture the entire slide show as an AVI file.

[peregrin]

If the pictures are so important to you why don't you pay the photographer for them , he's just protecting his work

[randiniy]

well he would pay him, but after the event the photographer up the price significantly.......... well over a thousand dollars more for the package that was verbally agreed on. also went up quite abit on individual pictures now his family aren't going to be able to afford as many as originally planned.

what would you do?

[vance43211]

. You'll have to do a screen capture (Ctrl-Alt-PrintScrn) of each picture as it's displayed.

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where can you find the picture after you hit Ctrl-Alt-PrintScrn

[pablo180]

vance43211 wrote:

where can you find the picture after you hit Ctrl-Alt-PrintScrn

You just open Paintbrush and select paste it will paste the screen onto the page, then you just save it or edit it as you wish.

[vance43211]

thanks

[thayne]

you dont even need to do ctrl+al+Print screen

Just Print screen works.

[smearbrick1]

When you execute this file, it probably expands and put the supporting files in a temp directory. If you were to locate that temp directory. You may be able to get the pictures that way. Also, if this is a packaged Powerpoint project, you could probably open it in powerpoint and extract the pictures that way.

[smearbrick1]

Also try opening the .exe file with something like WINRAR or WINZIP. Simply change the file extension (.exe) to .zip.