CD recovery service?

I have a bunch of pix copied to a CD a couple of years ago. My
current PC cannot find the pictures, only the directory in which I put
them.

Are these forever lost? Or are there services that can recover these?

phk wrote:
I have a bunch of pix copied to a CD a couple of years ago. My
current PC cannot find the pictures, only the directory in which I put
them.

Are these forever lost? Or are there services that can recover these?

Just type in CD Recovery in a Goggle search and you will find many.

You may or may not be able to recover them. I suggest anyone using
digital images make at least two copies of them keep one at home and one far
away, like with a out of state family member or at least take one to work.
You never know what will happen, and you don't want both copies damaged at
the same time.


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Joseph Meehan

Dia 's Muire duit

Joseph Meehan wrote:
phk wrote:
I have a bunch of pix copied to a CD a couple of years ago. My
current PC cannot find the pictures, only the directory in which I put
them.

Are these forever lost? Or are there services that can recover these?

Just type in CD Recovery in a Goggle search and you will find many.

You may or may not be able to recover them. I suggest anyone using
digital images make at least two copies of them keep one at home and one far
away, like with a out of state family member or at least take one to work.
You never know what will happen, and you don't want both copies damaged at
the same time.



And if the dupes are burnt onto the same crappy media? What good is it
if they're stored 1000 miles apart?

Greg

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G.T. wrote:
Joseph Meehan wrote:
phk wrote:
I have a bunch of pix copied to a CD a couple of years ago. My
current PC cannot find the pictures, only the directory in which I
put them.

Are these forever lost? Or are there services that can recover
these?

Just type in CD Recovery in a Goggle search and you will find
many. You may or may not be able to recover them. I suggest anyone
using digital images make at least two copies of them keep one at
home and one far away, like with a out of state family member or at
least take one to work. You never know what will happen, and you
don't want both copies damaged at the same time.



And if the dupes are burnt onto the same crappy media? What good is
it if they're stored 1000 miles apart?

Greg

CD's have a high survival rate to at least five years most will make 10.
I seem to have forgotten to note that it is a good idea to replace these
CD's every year or so. Make them a standard after Holiday thing to do.

The is no media that can guarantee survival.



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Joseph Meehan

Dia 's Muire duit

On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:59:25 -0700, phk wrote:

I have a bunch of pix copied to a CD a couple of years ago. My
current PC cannot find the pictures, only the directory in which I put
them.

Are these forever lost? Or are there services that can recover these?

Try various CD-ROMs. Alignments could vary and one may read it. Is the PC
that wrote it gone?

Don www.donwiss.com (e-mail link at home page bottom).

Don Wiss wrote:
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:59:25 -0700, phk wrote:

I have a bunch of pix copied to a CD a couple of years ago. My
current PC cannot find the pictures, only the directory in which I
put them.

Are these forever lost? Or are there services that can recover
these?

Try various CD-ROMs. Alignments could vary and one may read it. Is
the PC that wrote it gone?

Good point


Don www.donwiss.com (e-mail link at home page bottom).

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Joseph Meehan

Dia 's Muire duit

phk wrote:
I have a bunch of pix copied to a CD a couple of years ago. My
current PC cannot find the pictures, only the directory in which I put
them.

Are these forever lost? Or are there services that can recover these?


Download a free copy of isobuster. If there is anything there it will
find it. If that doesn't work, try other readers. You could even take
the cd to your local friendly BigBuy or similar and see if they will let
you try it in one of their machines powered up and on display.
Dave Cohen

phk wrote:
I have a bunch of pix copied to a CD a couple of years ago. My
current PC cannot find the pictures, only the directory in which I put
them.

Is the disk physically damaged?
If not, you could try
http://dvdisaster.sourceforge.net/en/
to read in a disk image and see how much of the disk is still
readable. Then you can run fsck (or scandisk or whatever) over
the disk image. If that helps, fine, otherwise, you probably
need a recovery service.

Are these forever lost?

Probably not.

Or are there services that can recover these?

Google is your friend.

-Wolfgang

anyreader will do the job.

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