TiVo Community Forums Archives

TiVoCommunity.com
(c)opyright 1995-2005 All rights reserved
indexcheckTC
This area is a static history of posts in the TiVo Community Forum Archive.
This archive history was made for the simple indexing of search sites like Google.

Pages:1

Data Recovery
(Click here to view the original thread with full colors/images)

Posted by: Regor

If an old cdr no longer worked - for whatever reason. Is there any way of recovering the data on it?:confused:

It's an old backup of some files I am trying to recover, but when I read the CDR is's saying there's nothing on it !!?!!!?

Posted by: cwaring

Dunno. Some sort of byte-for-byte copy to your hard drive? Surely there must be some software that can do this? Sorry! Not my area of expertise :)

Posted by: TivoTown

Is it scratched?

You can get polish that fills in the scratches so the data can be read.

Have you tried something like CloneCD to make an image of it and see if that reads?

Posted by: Regor

I didn't see any scratches, so will have a closer look. I'll also have a look at this clone CD item.

Thanks for the help.

Posted by: TivoTown

Here's a link: http://www.slysoft.com/en/download.html

good luck.

Posted by: Regor

Brilliant - even better. :) I'll give it a go after work.

Cheers for the help.

Posted by: Adlopa

I used to use CD-R Diagnostic (as it was called back then) with 100% success when I had problems with packet writing under Windows Me. Check out http://www.infinadyne.com/cddvd_diagnostic.html.. There 's a free evaluation version (http://www.infinadyne.com/pub/diagnostic.exe) that will find all recoverable files but won't actually recover them, so you can see if it's worth paying for first.