matelot
09-28-2007, 09:58 AM
First let me say it is great to be back after a long period of ill health.
Have been quite unwell for some months and, on conclusion, we decided to visit Turkey and explore some of the Ancient Civilizations. Very very interesting.
At the end of our holiday my wife (78 years old) decided to do some paragliding!! She and a friend (89 years) both had a great time doing this. At the end we bought a cd of digital jpegs (of the wife's flight) to complement the DVD supplied as part of the package.
My problem is that while trying to make a duplicate of the CD (using Nero), the system failed and when I restarted I was found that the original CD now reported a corrupt FAT and I could not read any part of it. The duplicate cd (which I thought might be rescued) was also useless.
I have tried several 'Demo' file recovery programs but the only thing that happens is that either the cd (or the dvd) drive locks up or the system locks up. Does anyone know of a way I can recover anything off this disc? Obviously it is highly unlikely that we will be able to repeat this adventure and I will be going into hospital for lung surgery in the very near future.
I am not a programmer but wonder if there is anyway of scanning the disc, copying the content to a hard drive, discarding the corrupted FAT and then re-writing a new FAT of the remainder.
Any advice, suggestions short of sending it to a commercial outlet, will be welcome. As a pensioner and having blown our savings on the Turkey trip, commercial prices are beyond me.
matelot
Have been quite unwell for some months and, on conclusion, we decided to visit Turkey and explore some of the Ancient Civilizations. Very very interesting.
At the end of our holiday my wife (78 years old) decided to do some paragliding!! She and a friend (89 years) both had a great time doing this. At the end we bought a cd of digital jpegs (of the wife's flight) to complement the DVD supplied as part of the package.
My problem is that while trying to make a duplicate of the CD (using Nero), the system failed and when I restarted I was found that the original CD now reported a corrupt FAT and I could not read any part of it. The duplicate cd (which I thought might be rescued) was also useless.
I have tried several 'Demo' file recovery programs but the only thing that happens is that either the cd (or the dvd) drive locks up or the system locks up. Does anyone know of a way I can recover anything off this disc? Obviously it is highly unlikely that we will be able to repeat this adventure and I will be going into hospital for lung surgery in the very near future.
I am not a programmer but wonder if there is anyway of scanning the disc, copying the content to a hard drive, discarding the corrupted FAT and then re-writing a new FAT of the remainder.
Any advice, suggestions short of sending it to a commercial outlet, will be welcome. As a pensioner and having blown our savings on the Turkey trip, commercial prices are beyond me.
matelot