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Thread ID: 85517	2007-12-13 04:06:00	files lost from CD after over writing	robsonde (120)	Press F1

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620823	2007-12-13 04:06:00	so i am trying to get files back from a CD for a friend..... he has a regular cd-r 700MB disk he had about 300Mb of photos on it. he added two MP3 files to it. he now has a CD with only the two MP3 files. looking at the disk in windows i see two files making up 23MB. looking at the disk properties i see a 700MB disk that is about 50% full. I assume that the photos are still there but not the directory for the photos.\ a quick look at the disk with nero, disk info and it show 8 sessions adding up to about 300MB is there any way i can recover the photos?? NOTE: this is NOT a re-writable disk it's a standard cd-r disk.	robsonde (120)
620824	2007-12-13 04:27:00	turns out that ISO buster will let you open multisession disks and get files out of any session. fixed!!	robsonde (120)
620825	2007-12-13 04:28:00	The files will still. be there ... there's no way to reuse any area once it's witten on ... so the only thing "lost" is the directory which tells the system where to find them. If the MP3 files were "added", the existing files should still be accessible (axs you would expect). A new directory containing everything should have been written. I have from time to time had CDs with "missing" files after adding files on Library computers. "Closing" (or "Finalizing"?) the disk with Nero (on my home computer) has worked in those cases. Before trying that, wait for input from someone who has recovered files more recently. ;D	Graham L (2)
620826	2007-12-13 04:32:00	thanks for the input, i think its a case of needing to educate the user :-) best as i can see he made a mulitsession but stuffed up the settings.	robsonde (120)
620827	2007-12-13 05:17:00	Maybe in the meantime cd recovery tools from the snapfiles freeware (www.snapfiles.com) section might help...	kahawai chaser (3545)
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