Cannot read DVD

[Kaustav]

About three months ago, I used a PC with a DVD RW on it to drive some data to a DVD disk. I created the DVD in UDF format and I did not finalise the session. Not good. I should have created it in ISO format. and finalised it.

Anyway, time has passed and that machine has been taken away for use by someone else in my office. I tried to read the DVD I burnt on my own PC to no avail. The DVD is not recognised. Taking it back up to the machine which burnt it I still could not see anything on the disk, however this time when I insert the DVD it recognised it as a DVD. However, it shows the disk as blank.

Using Roxio EasyCD Creator I noted that it could see one track on the DVD when I pulled up the DVD Information. I select it and tried to copy it off to the hard disk, however I received an error and was unable to copy the track. NERO also reported that there was a track on the DVD but it refused to read and copy the file for me.

Is there anyway I can get to the data on this DVD?

Thanks.

 

[gsellis]

If you have access to the burner that you made it on, try it there (you did, but see next step). You may want to find IsoBuster (shareware with a free trial) and load in on that machine. IsoBuster should show you if it can see the data. You would need to buy IsoBuster to recover it if it can see it IIRC.

 

[AssyrianKing]

try finalzing the dvd with a dvd burner using a program that will finalize ur dvd/cd.

 

[Kaustav]

AssyrianKing,
I tried that on the original machine which burnt it but to no avail. The finalise CD option in Roxio Easy CD Writer 5 was greyed out. I am going to try the above mentioned ISOBuster and see what that does. Hmmm....

 

[Kaustav]

Hi,

 

[Kaustav]

Hi,
I've purchased ISOBuster and it have managed to recover all the files. It worked out that the disk was in UDF format. The only problem is it has not preserved any of the file names or directory structure, so effectively I have to wade through all the files manually. Is there a way to get ISOBuster to preserve this sort of information and reproduce it?