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| Thread ID: 126431 | 2012-08-27 07:42:00 | Pioneer CD Recorder | davehartley (3487) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1297291 | 2012-08-28 04:32:00 | Is there someone in your area at maybe a recording studio or your local radio station that could offer advice for you? I'm sure that this problem could have arisen before. |
Bryan (147) | ||
| 1297292 | 2012-08-28 05:03:00 | Do you know if the recorder uses track at once or disk at once recording? If it's track at once burning another audio track to it and finalising might do the job, it's worked for me in the past with an interrupted recording using Nero 6 some years back. The disk looked blank until I told the software to add more to it when the existing data magically showed up. the suggestion to try it first on another disk is a good one. Also have you tried it in any old audio CD players, some of them seem to play anything including data tracks they are supposed to ignore. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1297293 | 2012-08-28 05:47:00 | Because it hasn't been finalised, that's why everything thinks there's nothing on it. You need something that will just blindly read any and all data. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1297294 | 2012-08-28 06:47:00 | Maybe try to copy the disk then finalise the copy. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1297295 | 2012-08-28 07:31:00 | Thanks to everyone with your helpful replies—here's where we're at. I took 1101's suggestion, and recorded a second CD, put the recorder in Rec-Pause, then pulled the plug. When I plugged it back in, it said that the disc was new, just like our wedding one. I then hit the record button, and after an age it said it would record track 2. I then stopped the disc, let it write the PMA, and voila! Track One which I had lost was back! Full of new-found confidence, I tried to do the same with our wedding CD. Alas, it seems to take so loooooong to find where to next record that it times out with a "Check Disc" error (the first track will be over 40mins long, so I guess that's to be expected). Bummer. I can't Finalise the CD as the recorder "knows" it's blank so won't proceed with that. I've rung a forensic data recovery place, and from my test I'm now pretty confident that the audio is still there and is recoverable. $250+GST was the quote I was given. Thanks Bryan—I hadn't thought of radio stations, might try those tomorrow. Any other suggestions would be gratefully received :) Especially any software that would be able to read the disc with no TOC or other information about where anything is ... |
davehartley (3487) | ||
| 1297296 | 2012-08-28 08:35:00 | What if you try and finalise it using windows built in burning? If you've got a DVD burner? | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1297297 | 2012-08-28 08:41:00 | What if you try and finalise it using windows built in burning? If you've got a DVD burner? Unfortunately, this does not appear to work—I think that most programs look for a TOC to sort out what's on the disc, and it can't be finalised as the computer thinks there's nothing on it. I need a program that can read the sectors of the CD without needing any other information... |
davehartley (3487) | ||
| 1297298 | 2012-08-28 09:17:00 | Wonder if something like this would fix it? Its not free tho (http://www.cdroller.com/) | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1297299 | 2012-08-28 09:22:00 | Wonder if something like this would fix it? Its not free tho (http://www.cdroller.com/) Already tried this, the evaluation version couldn't find anything on the disc :( |
davehartley (3487) | ||
| 1297300 | 2012-08-28 09:22:00 | Wonder if something like this would fix it? Its not free tho (http://www.cdroller.com/) Hmmm I mentioned that in post 2...he says he tried it, the website specifically says it can do it, but he says not. |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
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