recovering data from unfinalised CD?

[Baddass]

I'm trying to sort out a CD for a friend. Basically it was recorded on a music CD recorder on the fly as part of a concert. It's a normal CDR and you can see on the back of it that data has been burnt onto it. For some reason it didnt close when it was written and i'm trying to recover the data from it.

I've looked at the CD info in Nero and Roxio which both think it is a brand new CD, with no sessions on it. Sadly therefore, it isn't as simple as closing the session or finalising the CD. Has anyone got ayn suggestions on how to close this CD off / recover the data?

thanks

 

[Baddass]

Try IsoBuster

it still can;t see anything on the disc, thinks it's a blank CDR

 

[Baddass]

Hello there,

You may want to try CD/DVD Diagnostic (Link.) You have to pay for a full version which will be able to recover data but the trial version shouldtell you if anything is recoverable. I personally have not tried it but came up while searching for a solution to your problem.

I was wondering if you could try and view the data in a hex editor to see if the data was readable, but I'm not sure if that is possible.

Apologies if what I have suggested is useless.

that program still sees the disc as blank. I'm not able to use the original recorder since it is my brother's disc and was recorded (or supposed to be ) at his school. I'll get him to try that since i'm not having any luck here at all.