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Thread ID: 90915 2008-06-20 02:55:00 Corrupted DVD-RW - recoverable? Tony (4941) Press F1
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680479 2008-06-20 02:55:00 If Windows tells me a DVD-RW is corrupted and can't be read, is it gone for ever, or are there tools that might allow me to recover the data?

Vista says it is blank, XP says it is corrupted. AFAIK it should have data on it.
Tony (4941)
680480 2008-06-20 02:59:00 And what program have you been using to copy whatever to it??

If you havent got the update for XP (If this is what you use), is installed?
Speedy Gonzales (78)
680481 2008-06-20 03:41:00 I came across This program here (www.roadkil.net) a while back. Ran it from a XP machine.Note: worth a try, cost nothing.

Used it to recover some data from a Damaged DVD none of my own PC's would read - they all said it was blank, but I know it had over 2Gb worth of stuff on it, you unzip the file to your desktop (no install needed) Place your DVD in the drive, then from its menu, navigate to the DVD Drive, select a location to put the recovered files, and set it running, it copies any file it finds.

DVD-RW's are crap any way - seen so many fail.
wainuitech (129)
680482 2008-06-20 06:40:00 I had good results with photorec www.cgsecurity.org wotz (335)
680483 2008-06-21 04:53:00 Well, it looks like I might be out of luck. I tried the two pgms suggested here, and also another one I found, but they all report an empty disk.

Does anyone know whether a quick erase on a DVD-RW leaves data there? My guess would be that it does.
Tony (4941)
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