Help with bad disc?

A very sad day indeed for me, having been a m$t$ simmer since day 0,
had a fantastic great collection of routes , trains, utils etc, collected over the years like 4.2 gigs worth, anyhows...........My collection was stored onto a DVD disc, a SONY ,good quality, but at the last update (multisession) it died , bad write and crashed!
now unreadabe and 3 + years of great stuff gone, very pi$$ed off.
dumb ass should had made a backup .....;(I have purchased 3 programs to attemt to recover the content:
Bad copy pro
DVD data rescue
ISO buster80$ later no luck, am i out of options?????marko

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RE: Help with bad disc?, derekmorton, Nov-07-04, 00:11 AM, (1) RE: Help with bad disc?, sd70mac666, Nov-09-04, 05:49 AM, (2) RE: Help with bad disc?, marko bevic, Nov-13-04, 06:19 AM, (3) RE: Help with bad disc?, sd70mac666, Nov-15-04, 05:58 AM, (4) RE: Help with bad disc?, geekman, Nov-15-04, 12:27 PM, (5) RE: Help with bad disc?, GG12332, Nov-21-04, 00:30 AM, (6) RE: Help with bad disc?, MStL51, Nov-21-04, 10:19 AM, (7) RE: Help with bad disc?, marko bevic, Nov-23-04, 11:54 PM, (8) RE: Help with bad disc?, pstraten, Nov-24-04, 02:19 PM, (9)

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It sounds like it Marko.

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LAST EDITED ON Nov-09-04 AT 06:00 AM (EST)

Did you check to see if the media is scratched?
I'd do that
Plus even though I don't have a DVD burner, I use CD's to back everything up. And I still have them. and they work. I would not have spent 80 bones on software unless it was neccessary. that was kind of unwise as I could use the 80 to get somethign else. But I feel your frustration. Hell I'd be ------ off if that happened. But then again downloading all of them again takes alot of time. Oh I forgot bad firmare would do it as well. Either that or the firmware is corrupted, you'd have to know the model of your DVD burner. I had to fix mine recently could not read digital audio, that was an easy fix without the firmwarebut check itDr. SatanI'm otherwise known as the SatanTrain

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>Did you check to see if the media is scratched? Yes, it was fine, the DVD disc was allways stored in a 'clean' mens hankerchief, and case! thats dedication man.>Oh I forgot bad firmare would do it as well. Nahh, alls fine there, just bad freakin luck.
Have lost all my collection.thanks for reply derek & 666.marko

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I'd say bad luck.
but bad discs make good beer coasters
Dr. SatanI'm otherwise known as the SatanTrain

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Thin the blood,
Another one on the waves tonight,
Comin' in, you're home
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LAST EDITED ON Nov-15-04 AT 12:28 PM (EST)

Hi Marko,I have no idea whether it will work or not, but I have a program called OnTrack Easy Recovery (www.ontrack.com) that is really good at extracting data off bad disks. It allowed me to recover data from a reformatted drive - and it was all intact. It's supposed to work on bad floppies, CD's and so on, too, although I've never tried it there.I have no way of knowing whether or not it will work on this disk or not, but if you want to mail it to me (or make a copy and send that), I'll be willing to give it a try. I won't promise anything, but in all actuality, what have you got to loose?If you want to, send me an e-mail at home: whiterabbit28@comcast.net and we'll discuss this further.Edited for typo.Larry Steiner

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marko, STOP!!! DON'T DO ANYTHING ELSE!!! Did you try using another drive to access the disk in? Perhaps closing the session on another DVD drive (that you know works) may solve the problem! Perhaps the drive itself and not the media failed. Does your software see the drive? Did you try writing test data to another disk (with the Sony drive)? Good Luck! I hope one of my suggestions works! It could save you some aggravation! Let me know how you make out!GG1-2332
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Marko,May I suggest trying a recovery program called CDROLLER. I had the same thing happen a few years ago on a CD and this program found all of the multisession files. The free download will allow you to scan your corrupt CD or DVD for recoverable files. License key is required then to recover the files. The license key is $29.50 which includes three years of upgrades. Check it out at www.cdroller.com. Good Luck.Terry

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Many thanks to all posters with their reccomendations, but as luck has it, At a family and friends function last week, I met a friend of a friend who is a CPA accountant with a worldwide firm, and during discussion we got talking computers, and apparently these firms send out their bad disks to professionals for repair, so i was stoked when was offered a free repair thru this mans company.1 week later, 1x new DVD with all my stuff intact. WOW!
Im reverting back to the good ole reliabe CD in future!thanks all for replies.
Marko

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Marko,That is indeed good news! Your were lucky to get the free professional recovery.But you did get some good alternative advice that other people not so fortunate (or well-connected) should keep in mind. I don't know about CDRoller, but I did use On-Track software when I managed a Novell network some years back, and their recovery programs were very goodPaulS

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