Burned DVD shows as no media

[imported_styx66]

Last night before i went to sleep i burned the last of many dvds, and immediately deleted the burned files from my HD as my main goal was to free up space for something else. (Yes, stupid, and never again.)

When i tried reading that last disc today, none of my computers/drives detect a disc in the drive after it is inserted. The other burned discs work properly.

I can visibly verify there is data written on the disc, but for whatever reason the computer cant. I figure there is an error in the (or a missing) TOC, bad lead-in... I have no idea.

All i know is i need this data badly. A month of work will be lost and i'm going to be devastated.

It's a brand new Sony DRU-810A and i used the bundled Nero 6 SE (6.6.0.14).

Is there any way to get this data of the disc and burn it to a proper one? I'm using an undeleter on my hard drive now but have had only limited success as i assume some of the sectors have been overwritten.

Any help is appreciated.

 

[meltdown75]

damn! 🙁 welcome to the forum, i bet you wish you'd have joined under different circumstances...

this post doubles as a bump for an obviously urgent issue.

members, please assist if you have knowledge of this!

the only thing i can think of is that perhaps you burned the DVD in another mode by accidentally hitting something in Nero. I would load up Nero and see what, if any, info you can get on the status of the DVD... ie. space free / used. I'm pretty stumped as far as ideas... have you tried reading it in another DVD drive?

best of luck and hopefully someone joins in on the discussion.

 

[montag451]

Isobuster would be a first stop I think.
Has noticed and redeemed many files that I thought were safe.

 

[imported_styx66]

I gave ISOBuster a try but it couldnt detect the disc even. Dang....

 

[corkyg]

Did you close the burns?

 

[imported_styx66]

Originally posted by: corkyg
Did you close the burns?

apparently everything was a success... the nero log of that session:

ISO compilation
2:42:27 AM #1 Text 0 File Isodoc.cpp, Line 6314
Iso document burn settings
------------------------------------------
Determine maximum speed : FALSE
Simulate : FALSE
Write : TRUE
Finalize CD : TRUE
Multisession : FALSE
Burning mode : DAO
Mode : 1
ISO Level : 1 (Max. of 11 = 8 + 3 char)
Character set : ISO 9660
Joliet : TRUE
Allow pathdepth more than 8 directories : FALSE
Allow more than 255 characters in path : FALSE
Write ISO9660 ;1 file extensions : TRUE

2:42:27 AM #2 Text 0 File Reader.cpp, Line 127
Reader running

2:42:27 AM #3 Text 0 File Writer.cpp, Line 122
Writer SONY DVD RW DRU-810A running

2:42:27 AM #4 ISO9660GEN -11 File geniso.cpp, Line 3297
First writeable address = 0 (0x00000000)

2:42:27 AM #5 Text 0 File Burncd.cpp, Line 3230
Turn on Disc-At-Once, using DVD media

2:42:27 AM #6 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 267
Last possible write address on media: 2295103 (510:01.28, 4482MB)
Last address to be written: 2192559 (487:14.09, 4282MB)

2:42:27 AM #7 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 279
Write in overburning mode: NO (enabled: CD DVD)

2:42:27 AM #8 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 2433
Recorder: SONY DVD RW DRU-810A, Media type: DVD+R

2:42:27 AM #9 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 445
>>> Protocol of DlgWaitCD activities: <<<
=========================================

2:42:27 AM #10 Text 0 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 830
Setup items (after recorder preparation)
0: TRM_DATA_MODE1 ()
2 indices, index0 (150) not provided
original disc pos #0 + 2192560 (2192560) = #2192560/487:14.10
relocatable, disc pos for caching/writing not required/ required, no patch infos
-> TRM_DATA_MODE1, 2048, config 0, wanted index0 0 blocks, length 2192560 blocks [SONY DVD RW DRU-810A]
--------------------------------------------------------------

2:42:27 AM #11 Text 0 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 1043
Prepare recorder [SONY DVD RW DRU-810A] for write in CUE-sheet-DAO
DAO infos:
==========
MCN: ""
TOCType: 0x00; Session Closed, disc fixated
Tracks 1 to 1:
1: TRM_DATA_MODE1, 2048/0x00, FilePos 0 0 4490362880, ISRC ""
DAO layout:
===========
__Start_|____Track_|_Idx_|_CtrlAdr_|_RecDep__________
0 | lead-in | 0 | 0x41 | 0x00
0 | 1 | 0 | 0x41 | 0x00
0 | 1 | 1 | 0x41 | 0x00
2192560 | lead-out | 1 | 0x41 | 0x00

2:42:27 AM #12 Phase 24 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1832
Caching of files started

2:42:27 AM #13 Text 0 File Burncd.cpp, Line 4114
Cache writing successful.

2:42:27 AM #14 Phase 25 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1832
Caching of files completed

2:42:27 AM #15 Phase 36 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1832
Burn process started at 8x (11,080 KB/s)

2:42:27 AM #16 Text 0 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 2643
Verifying disc position of item 0 (relocatable, disc pos, no patch infos, orig at #0): write at #0

2:42:27 AM #17 SCSI -1066 File Cdrdrv.cpp, Line 1182
SCSI Exec, HA 2, TA 2, LUN 0, buffer 0x045A0400
Status: 0x04 (0x01, SCSI_ERR)
HA-Status 0x00 (0x00, OK)
TA-Status 0x02 (0x01, SCSI_TASTATUS_CHKCOND)
Sense Key: 0x05 (KEY_ILLEGAL_REQUEST)
Sense Code: 0x24
Sense Qual: 0x00
CDB Data: 0xAD 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x08 0x04 0x00 0x00
Sense Data: 0x70 0x00 0x05 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x12
0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x24 0x00

2:42:27 AM #18 CDR -1207 File DVDR.cpp, Line 4938
Book Type automatically set to: Current recorder setting

2:42:27 AM #19 Text 0 File DVDPlusRW.cpp, Line 655
Start write address at LBA 0
DVD high compatibility mode: Yes

3:01:17 AM #20 Text 0 File WriterStatus.cpp, Line 116
<SONY DVD RW DRU-810A > start writing Lead-Out at LBA 2192560 (2174B0h), lenght 0 blocks

3:01:17 AM #21 Text 0 File ThreadedTransfer.cpp, Line 228
all writers idle, stopping conversion

3:01:36 AM #22 Phase 37 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1832
Burn process completed successfully at 8x (11,080 KB/s)


Existing drivers:
File 'Drivers\PXHELP20.SYS': Ver=2.03.18a, size=20576 bytes, created 9/23/2004 2:03:00 AM (Prassi/Veritas driver for win 2K)
File 'Drivers\InCDfs.SYS': Ver=4, 3, 14, 1, size=99456 bytes, created 4/12/2005 11:07:50 AM (InCD4 driver for win NT/2K/XP)
File 'Drivers\InCDpass.SYS': Ver=4, 3, 14, 1, size=29056 bytes, created 4/12/2005 11:07:30 AM (InCD4 driver for win NT/2K/XP)
File 'Drivers\InCDrec.SYS': Ver=4, 3, 14, 1, size=8704 bytes, created 4/12/2005 11:07:54 AM (InCD4 driver for win NT/2K/XP)
File 'Drivers\nvatabus.sys': Ver=5.10.2600.0446 built by: WinDDK, size=79360 bytes, created 6/3/2004 9:40:46 AM (Adapter driver for rec)
File 'Drivers\aic78u2.sys': Ver=v3.60a (Lab01_N.010510-0033), size=55168 bytes, created 8/23/2001 7:00:00 AM (Adapter driver for src)

Registry Keys:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon\AllocateCDROMs : 0 (Security Option)

====== *** Nero-Burning Rom, History File *** ======

 

[corkyg]

That doesn't asnswer the question. Unless you closed the disk, you were "packet writing" and that may often only be readable on the same drive it was written to.

Closing the disk is necessary to make it universally readable on other drives. Just copying files successfully to a disk does not close it.

 

[imported_styx66]

well afaik nothing was done differently between that disc and all the other discs i made.

however if that is the case, that i somehow didnt close the disc, how would i go about closing it?

if it were not closed, would nero and other programs detect no disc at all?

 

[sieistganzfett]

hi. from your hard drive, use that hard drive that had the data and connect it to another pc and on that pc run getdataback from runtime.org scanning the affected hard drive so you can see if the files you need are there and recoverable, if they are pay for the software and recover it.

as for your dvd, if closing the session would get it readable... i don't think this will work since you did indeed burn the disc at once finalizing it as one session instead of multi, but you can try adding more files to it in a burn making sure you set the option from mutisession or add more later to finalize disc so that no more data can be added. im not an expert on fixing bad burns even when the drive on the computer that burned it can't see it, so i wish you luck in both options you can try out.

 

[imported_styx66]

unfortunately the hd in question is on a laptop, and i don't have another. also, what is the benefit of running an undeleter off another computer as opposed to locally?

i put the disc back in, opened nero and tried to continue a multisession disc but it still claimed there was no disc in the drive. i feel like the disc is toast at this point.