CD-RW data are lost -> burned with DirectCD (Win)...
Hi List, I (almost) gave up already to give a helping hand to my dad, who still uses hard-drive-like CD-RWs burned with a bloody old copy of the packet-writing application DirectCD (coming with Easy CD Creator) on a Win98 box. Till now he had no problems as I know, but now just lost one complete CD-RW with _all_ of his photos, documents, etc. From a w2000 machine I attempted to get back his data with about 10 different recovery tools: without any success. Please does anyone have an idea, how could I try to save his data back from this CD-RW under SUSE 9.1?! (= last chance) Thanks a lot, Peli
On Saturday November 6 2004 8:15 am, Peli wrote:
Hi List,
I (almost) gave up already to give a helping hand to my dad, who still uses hard-drive-like CD-RWs burned with a bloody old copy of the packet-writing application DirectCD (coming with Easy CD Creator) on a Win98 box. Till now he had no problems as I know, but now just lost one complete CD-RW with _all_ of his photos, documents, etc. From a w2000 machine I attempted to get back his data with about 10 different recovery tools: without any success.
Please does anyone have an idea, how could I try to save his data back from this CD-RW under SUSE 9.1?! (= last chance)
That garbage software is proprietary and I know of nothing that will read the data. Fred -- "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." - Benjamin Franklin 1759
Fred Miller wrote:
On Saturday November 6 2004 8:15 am, Peli wrote:
Hi List,
I (almost) gave up already to give a helping hand to my dad, who still uses hard-drive-like CD-RWs burned with a bloody old copy of the packet-writing application DirectCD (coming with Easy CD Creator) on a Win98 box. Till now he had no problems as I know, but now just lost one complete CD-RW with _all_ of his photos, documents, etc. From a w2000 machine I attempted to get back his data with about 10 different recovery tools: without any success.
Please does anyone have an idea, how could I try to save his data back from this CD-RW under SUSE 9.1?! (= last chance)
That garbage software is proprietary and I know of nothing that will read the data.
Fred
If I'm not mistaken, the UDF filesystem is compatible. See if "modprobe udf" and mounting it works. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====
On Sunday 07 November 2004 17:12, Sid Boyce wrote:
I (almost) gave up already to give a helping hand to my dad, who still uses hard-drive-like CD-RWs burned with a bloody old copy of the packet-writing application DirectCD (coming with Easy CD Creator) on a Win98 box. Till now he had no problems as I know, but now just lost one complete CD-RW with _all_ of his photos, documents, etc. From a w2000 machine I attempted to get back his data with about 10 different recovery tools: without any success.
If I'm not mistaken, the UDF filesystem is compatible. See if "modprobe udf" and mounting it works. Regards Sid.
Interesting this is brought up. I have yet to be able to use a CDRW as a data backup disk, except in xp. I normally use DVD-RAM cartridges. But I just used directcd on an xp box to format (the long way) and copy oodles of dos files from the xp box to the cdrw. I brought it to work and, using Suse 8.2, I was able to access the CD in a DVD+-R,RW drive using the SR0 device driver with a filesystem of AUTO in the fstab. When I looked at the icon properties, I found the it was set to a filesystem type of UDF. Additionally I could not write to it because "it was set to write-protect" per a kde box after mounting. hope this helps. I want to use CDRW as a means of passing data between my linux boxes at work and my wife's xp box at home, as well as the laptops. If anyone knows how I can write to the CDRWs, I would appreciate the info. John Sowden American Sentry Systems. Inc. 1221 Andersen Drive San Rafael, CA 94901 U.L. Listed Central Station Alarm Service Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967 mail@americansentry.net http://www.americansentry.net
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