Retrieving files off a CD-R

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I have a disk that I put a file of photos on, I then put another file of photos on the disk and the 1st folder I put on disappeared. This was all done on a CD-R disk. Does anyone know how/if I can retrieve.
I have heard that there can be multi layers or records where they might be hiding.

Thanks for any help.
 
Blimey that was like 15 posts of crap!

Anyway.. so this is a CDR? I take it you have started a multi session on the disc. Windows explorer may have problems displaying the latest session that was created on the disc. Give ISO buster a try http://www.isobuster.com/isobusterdownload.php

If these photos are important to you i'd advise in the future to burn them on multiple CDRs without multi session. These days its not a problem not filling up the disc with how cheap CDRs are now.
 
2StepSteve said:
Blimey that was like 15 posts of crap!

Anyway.. so this is a CDR? I take it you have started a multi session on the disc. Windows explorer may have problems displaying the latest session that was created on the disc. Give ISO buster a try http://www.isobuster.com/isobusterdownload.php

If these photos are important to you i'd advise in the future to burn them on multiple CDRs without multi session. These days its not a problem not filling up the disc with how cheap CDRs are now.
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Yeh its a CDR. Ive no idea how it happened, i think i was trying to sort all my photos out and this somehow happened.
 
It has happened to me before, where only the latest additions to the disc appear in windows. Ever since it happened I don't bother with multi sessions anymore, they seems to be quite flakey. With how cheap discs are I always burn closing the disc. If you are backing up and these are for archiving i'd advise using DVDs instead, they are much more resistant to damage.

Let me know if isobuster does the job.. and ah a good forum for this to go would be Optical Storage & Writing ;):p mods? hello!
 
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2StepSteve said:
It has happened to me before, where only the latest additions to the disc appear in windows. Ever since it happened I don't bother with multi sessions anymore, they seems to be quite flakey. With how cheap discs are I always burn closing the disc. If you are backing up and these are for archiving i'd advise using DVDs instead, they are much more resistant to damage.

Let me know if isobuster does the job.. and ah a good forum for this to go would be Optical Storage & Writing ;):p mods? hello!
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This one worked very well. Nice and easy to use. Thankyou!
 
You can also use Nero to get the data back, first copy off the current files you can see, then use Nero to pick the last to last multisession, then add a file and you should get the previous data back. The drive you're using does support multisession doesn't it?
 
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