While reconfiguring my PC a few months ago, I backed up all my data onto CDrs. Because of my organizational method, I had a few CDrs that I burned multisession in Nero. Well, this one such CD, when viewed in Windows Explorer, only shows the contents of one of the sessions. When I open the disc in Nero, I see the same contents as in Explorer, along with 9 of what I assume are the other sessions listed as “tracks” in the tracks section (no, it’s not audio data), but am unable to open any of these extra tracks. I probably made a mistake somewhere along in the multisession burning process. Anyone ever hear of such a thing? Any way to recover this data?
Sounds like you didn’t close the disk. (I’d tell you what that means but you don’t care). Find the option in Nero and do it. Try… I dunno. “CD Properties” if there is such an option.
As what Nanoda said…If you can’t close the session then try burning a 1k file or something on the CD and choosing the otion to close the session when recording has finsihed.
No, no, no. Don’t close the disc, yet.
You probably forgot to import the old sessions into the new one.
If there is still a few megs left on the disc, try this:
Start a new session. Import all the stuff from the previous sessions you want to have available. Burn it. (Note that you are actually not adding any new user files to the disc. This is just changing the file structure.)
See this section from the CDR FAQ.
Well if nothing else works then you can do what I do.I use a nice little software called Badcopy Pro. Time and again I have managed to recover precious data from floppies and cds using this software.
The price is a bit steep (39.95 I think) but the free demo version allows you to check if the cd you are trying to recover is recoverable or not.You can then decide to purchase it.
Hope this helps.
Sometimes this results from using “directcd” instead of going through your cdburuner program (granted, I’ve never used Nero, but I imagine it has a similar fetaure…), which can only be read by a CD-R/W drive and not a standard CD Drive.
But be sure to create a backup before you try doing anything else to the CD! Your best bet is to create an image and store it on your hard drive.
I’ve used IsoBuster several times to recover data from damaged, corrupt, or incorrectly burned CDs. (It doesn’t try to fix anything, it just allows you to read the data off the bad disc to move it someplace safe.)
It’s free to download and use, but there are more advanced features you must pay (US$30) for.
Just so yas all know what happ’n’d- The CD was crammed full, (cheap bastard I am stretching 25¢ to the max), so I tried IsoBuster- woiked like a chahm.