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Need Help with Wedding Pictures

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Mathlete

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I have a cd with all of the pictures from my wedding. Now when i put it in my computer I get "DLA cannot use this blank media. Would you like to format the media now?" Problem is that the media is not blank. Any suggestions?

My mother-in-law also borrowed the CD and I think that she might have used it to make copies of the pictures for herself. Could that have damaged the disc so that the pictures are no longer available?
 
Originally posted by: Mathlete
I have a cd with all of the pictures from my wedding. Now when i put it in my computer I get "DLA cannot use this blank media. Would you like to format the media now?" Problem is that the media is not blank. Any suggestions?

My mother-in-law also borrowed the CD and I think that she might have used it to make copies of the pictures for herself. Could that have damaged the disc so that the pictures are no longer available?
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Yes. Or that whoever created the disk did not close the session/disk correctly.
 
Hehe...rule #1, never loan your only copy of the wedding picture CD to the mother-in-law without making a copy:B Try ISOBuster! You can also try some free trial software to see if those files are good first.
 
There are a suite of Digital *** Rescue softwares that can often perform what seems like miracles in recovering files. Friends of mine took a large memory stick with all of the photos from their trip to Australia to a shop to have a DVD copy made. They did not get a DVD and the memory stick no longer showed the photos in either the camera reader or in an external card reader on my computer. Using Digital Photo Rescue I was able to recover their precious photos. The shop had corrupted the file headers but the photos themselves were still there. I don't have a link for you at the moment, but DPR will allow you to test their software to see if it can recover the photos on your media. To save what it recovers you will have to buy the software -- which is what I did after I found my friends photos were still on the memory stick. I think I recovered all but three or four.

Good Luck.

PS
Here is a link for you

http://www.objectrescue.com/

You may wish to try the more powerful Object Rescue. I only needed Photo Rescue for what I was doing
 
If those are the ONLY copies of your wedding pictures, be aware that BURNED CDs don't last forever. Once you get copies, I suggest putting them on a hard drive and keeping track of those files as you move from hard drive to hard drive.
 
"Computer says no!"

:laugh:

Is this a CD-R or CD-RW we're dealing with? If CD-R I find it hard to believe that someone could have damaged it if the disk was closed properly after the photos were added.

Can you turn off or uninstall the DLA software?

Have you tried accessing the disk on a different computer?
 
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