Recovery of pictures on a CD

[TechDave]

Hello once again everyone!

I need help once again here. My Dad burned some pictures to a CD and they were of his Beagle puppy and some other stuff that he wanted to keep. Not knowing better, he thought he could burn some other pictures to the same CD a few days later. He thought that the burner would read where on the CD the first burning stopped and that the 2nd group of pics would just be added at that point.

As you can tell from my thread title, I need to try and recover those first pics for him. Whenever you put the CD in a drive to be read, the 2nd group of pics is all that comes up. Is there an application that will allow me to at least read those 1st pics so I can recover them and burn them to another CD for my Dad??

Any help that comes my way on this will be greatly appreciated!

TD

[oracle128]

Was it a CD-R or RW disc?

[uripyores]

You could try a recovery program to see what [if anything] you can recover.
Try the free trial here... http://www.get-data-back.com/cd-dvd-recovery.html

or this one....

http://diskinternals.com/cd-dvd-recovery/product.shtml

There are lots that claim to do the job but I wouldn't expect too much success.

[TechDave]

Originally Posted by oracle128

Was it a CD-R or RW disc?

It was a CD-R unfortunately. I'm trying the program uripyores suggested. I'll post here with any further information.

[black mirror]

Did he not save the photos on hard drive before making the cdr???

[TechDave]

Originally Posted by black mirror

Did he not save the photos on hard drive before making the cdr???

He burned the first files......then burned the 2nd batch to the same cd not knowing that you can't do that with a CD-R.

[oracle128]

He burned the first files......then burned the 2nd batch to the same cd not knowing that you can't do that with a CD-R.

But you can though. You can't erase/overwrite data from a CD-R; and, if you don't "finalize" the disc, you can add as much data as you want until the disc is full - it's a feature known as "multisession".

The thing that can get you is a "feature" of some CD burning software that "erases" data from a CD-R. The data isn't actually erased - it's physically still intact on the inside edge of the disc - but the CD's Table Of Contents is changed to make the data hidden from the operating system. If that's what your dad did inadvertently (it's not usually the default action for any burning software, when adding files to a CD), I don't know of any software specifically capable of unhiding or otherwise accessing it - the data recovery tools suggested would probably be your best bet.

[black mirror]

Originally Posted by TechDave

He burned the first files......then burned the 2nd batch to the same cd not knowing that you can't do that with a CD-R.

What i mean is were the photos on the harddrive to start with.. in order to make a cdr usually the files are on your harddrive and you move them to your burning sowtware to copy but the originals are still on hard drive....