# Recovering data from a DVD-RW?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recovering-data-from-a-dvd-rw/317235>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 16, 2005, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recovering-data-from-a-dvd-rw/317235 "2005-08-16T07:48:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![jackemaxton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a87d85/32.png) [@jackemaxton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackemaxton)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recovering-data-from-a-dvd-rw/317235/1 "2005-08-16T07:48:12Z")

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I had a multi-session DVD-RW and the last track I wrote seemed to burn fine and the disc closed without an error, then later when I put the disc back in it reads as a blank disc ☹ Under windows explorer and every burning program I’ve tried it shows as blank, are there any data recovery programs that can read a DVD-RW with a missing or corrupted TOC?

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**Author:** ![DarrenS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DarrenS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarrenS)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recovering-data-from-a-dvd-rw/317235/2 "2005-08-16T17:17:53Z")

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Try it in a different computer. I had this same issue - where Windows gets it in its head that the disc is blank, and refuses to believe otherwise, even if it’s false.

Failing that, I had success with this: [http://www.jufsoft.com/badcopy/](http://www.jufsoft.com/badcopy/)