DVD-R Data Recovery

[chrisf]

I have a DVD-R (Imation / burned on Pioneer A05) that is full of MP3 files.

Unfortunately, I no longer have these on my hard drive and when I try and read from the DVD-R, I can see the directory structures and files but cannot play or copy the actual files.

Has anyone any ideas how I can recover this data........

Thanks
Chris

[richdvd]

what error do you get when you attempt to copy them to your hard drive?

[chrisf]

No specific errot message - it just wont open the files (using itunes for example) or copy. The disc keeps trying to be read......

[richdvd]

could be bad media

[Sifaga]

Try cleaning the disk

try using a different dvd-rom drive to read

try isobuster

try copy and paste in windows explorer

try dvdinfopro to confirm if theres read errors on the disk

there are many threads about this topic in here

[chrisf]

Tried cleaning the disc and using another PC with no luck.

Have started to try isobuster - its sees two trees (one ISO and one not). I seem to get sector read errors when I try and extract. Will try again.......

Not tried DVDInfopro yet - Thanks.......

[sacajaweeda]

Can you copy the ISO to your hard drive and read it with ImgTools?

[chrisf]

Just tried DVDInfopro and get read errors......

Error - LBA = 00049d20h and onwards.... Looks like it starts to have problems after about 14% of the disk read.

Is there any hope for me or should I just give up and put it down to bad experience (and not use Imation media again !!!)

[Sifaga]

very little hope i would say,

even if you did get the corrupt files off they may not sound right

i had the same prob and between copy/paste and isobuster i managed to get some of my MP3's back.

i ended up copy/paste individual songs, and isobuster individual song, if a read error i would just try the next one