Data recovery from a cd

[dcandage]

Houston, we have a probem.

A while back, before I knew that my cd-rw required certain cd's or else (Iomega ZipCd 650), I made a few cd's on some unapproved disks. On occasion, six months to a year later and an XP upgrade from Win98se, the Iomega won't read a disk. Sometimes, that's not too much of a problem because it's personal junk and I can live with it. But sometimes it's photo studio stuff. This happened the other day. I had an order for an image and I can't read the cd it's on. Fortunately, the bulk of the order was shot with film, so there was only that one photo that we couldn't provide (wedding photos). I called a data recovery company and it would cost $150 jut to look at it. If they can do anything with it it can cost up to $800 to get the info (including the original $150). Needless to say that didn't happen. I seem to recall hearing about software that can retrieve data from a compact flash card. I must have heard about this in one of the photo mailing lists I'm on. Is there such software (that can be run at home) that I can use to get info from the cd? The cd isn't even recognized by the operating system.

Thankx,
Dave

[glc]

Have you tried that CD in other systems and CD drives?

[dcandage]

Yes. Two at a photo lab, and one at a friend's and at her work place.