Recover my messed up CD please!!

[Leon]

I wrote some important data on a CD. Then, some time later, I added another file without telling Nero that it should be part of a multisession task. (I was in a hurry!). Then I followed someone's advice and tried to copy another folder over the last file in order to have the first lot available again. No luck. No I have the following:
Session 1
Track 1 (start) (length) 3MB UDF/ISO 9669 (mode 2)
Track 2 (start) (length) 382MB DirectCD UDF (mode 2)
Track 3 (start) (length) 3MB Data (mode 2)
Track 4 (start) (length) 3MB Data (mode 2)
Session 2
Track 5 (start) (length) 2MB ISO 9660/Joliet (mode 1)
Session3
Track 6 (start) (length) 2MB ISO 9660/Joliet (mode 1)

Is there a way to recover the initial data on this CD? I don't care about Sessions 2 and 3.

[Werner]

http://www.smart-projects.net/isobuster/ will do the job, or , if you are NOT runnign windows xp, you can do a search for nero session mounter, will will also show you previous sessions.

Hope this helps.

[Steven]

You can try these links maybe you find smthing you can recover your data with

CDXRESCUE: http://www.dvdxcopy.com/products_cxr.asp

UDF READER: http://www.cdroller.com/htm/udfread.html

CD Recovery Tips: http://www.cdfreaks.com/article/38

CD DATA RESCUE: http://www.naltech.com/

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[Scrooloose]

Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 comes with a tool called the "Session Selector".

Basically, it allows you to access data from a specific session, through Explorer, as if any other sessions do not exist.

Give it a shot.

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[BigAl]

Too late to be of assistance to Leon, but may help others with a similar problem. Nero adds a session selector tab (called volumes) to the properties dialog from Explorer. Right click on the CD-drive (with the CD in of course), select properties, select volumes and select the session you want.

That CD looks interesting to me, and I'm surprised it worked after changing from packet reading to multisession. The earlier session looks as though it came from EasyCD (default mode 2 and DirectCD). I've found that Nero messes up the table of contents (default mode 1) when it writes another session on a CD created by EasyCD. In Leon's case, the problem is exacerbated by going from UDF to multisession.

[BigAl]

[OsmoS]

There is another utility - shareware - called BadCopy Pro which might be able to do the trick. It works at the sector level (so I understand). Worthy of a download and an attempt if you have not had any luck so far.

You can get it at http://www.jufsoft.com/badcopy/

Overview:

BadCopy Pro - Disk and CD corrupted or lost data recovery software.

BadCopy Pro is a data recovery utility for floppy disk, CD-ROM, CD-R/CD-RW/DVD,
Digital Media, ZIP/JAZ/MO Disk and other storage. It can recover and rescue
corrupted or lost data from damaged or defective disks.

System Requirement:

Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME/XP

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