i'm in trouble here
i recorded a concert on a cdrw with a pioneer cd recorder
then, instead of finalize i erroneusly pressed erase (the buttons are near)
I erased only the toc (the erasing process took less than a minute ...),
but the data is still there
i have only a track, about 40 min long
is there a way to recover it?
please help
thanks

--
John L Rice


"m0nty" wrote in message
...
i'm in trouble here
i recorded a concert on a cdrw with a pioneer cd recorder
then, instead of finalize i erroneusly pressed erase (the buttons are
near)
I erased only the toc (the erasing process took less than a minute ...),
but the data is still there
i have only a track, about 40 min long
is there a way to recover it?
please help
thanks

Do a Google search on 'cdrw recovery' and you'll get a lot of hits for
recovery software you can buy and people you can hire.

best of luck!

John L Rice

i did that but didn't find anything useful ...
still searching

John L Rice wrote:
--
John L Rice


"m0nty" wrote in message
...
i'm in trouble here
i recorded a concert on a cdrw with a pioneer cd recorder
then, instead of finalize i erroneusly pressed erase (the buttons
are
near)
I erased only the toc (the erasing process took less than a minute
....),
but the data is still there
i have only a track, about 40 min long
is there a way to recover it?
please help
thanks


there is another recent thread here on rap about cd recording on an hhb
and a power interuption. there are some good ideas for you there.
also see isobusters.

Mark

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:32:11 GMT, m0nty wrote:

i did that but didn't find anything useful ...
still searching

David Satz developed a brilliant solution, posted into
this newsgroup. Search for his name and "finalizing",
maybe.

Good fortune,

Chris Hornbeck

In article writes:

i did that but didn't find anything useful ...
still searching

You didn't search hard enough. Just a few days in this newsgroup, we
were discussing Isobuster, which will most likely do the job for you.

--
I'm really Mike Rivers )
However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over,
lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If
you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring
and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo

Chris Hornbeck wrote:
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:32:11 GMT, m0nty wrote:


i did that but didn't find anything useful ...
still searching


David Satz developed a brilliant solution, posted into
this newsgroup. Search for his name and "finalizing",
maybe.

Good fortune,

Chris Hornbeck

i recorded some seconds on the toc, then isobuster could read the cd
unfortunately, after 6 minutes it reads only bad sectors ...
thanks anyway for the help

M0nty, by all means visit http://www.smart-projects.net and check out
IsoBuster. I don't work with CD-RW very much, but just yesterday I used
it to read data from five unfinalized DVD-Rs that someone had sent me,
so I know it's not only for dealing with CD-Rs.

Also, if IsoBuster saves your project as it has saved several of mine,
then may I suggest that you consider registering the software? This not
only helps to support the future development, but also unlocks several
nice professional-level features in the software.

--best regards

In article writes:

i recorded some seconds on the toc, then isobuster could read the cd
unfortunately, after 6 minutes it reads only bad sectors ...

Sometimes when you **** up, you're just ****ed. If you had recorded on
analog tape you could have washed it or spliced it or wiped it off.

Next time, use a reliable media.


--
I'm really Mike Rivers )
However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over,
lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If
you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring
and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo

David Satz wrote:
M0nty, by all means visit http://www.smart-projects.net and check out
IsoBuster. I don't work with CD-RW very much, but just yesterday I used
it to read data from five unfinalized DVD-Rs that someone had sent me,
so I know it's not only for dealing with CD-Rs.

Also, if IsoBuster saves your project as it has saved several of mine,
then may I suggest that you consider registering the software? This not
only helps to support the future development, but also unlocks several
nice professional-level features in the software.

--best regards

I read you previous thread and used isobuster
but no luck
i got 6 minutes of audio and then bad sectors...
thanks anyway

On 22 Mar 2005 13:27:38 -0500, (Mike Rivers)
wrote:


In article writes:

i recorded some seconds on the toc, then isobuster could read the cd
unfortunately, after 6 minutes it reads only bad sectors ...

Have you tried "finalizing" the disc, then ISObuster and/or EAC
(exactaudiocopy.de)? If it's that important, all you've got to lose is
a few more minutes (hours?) of trying.
I'm wondering why six minutes are good, then the rest is bad
sectors. Does the data after 6 minutes play back as noise, or does the
extraction it slow down and complain about bad sectors? Have you let
it run overnight trying to read it?
I'm not saying you WILL be able to get a good recording off the
disc, but using these tools I've gotten a clean-playing files from
discs (such as a commercial CD with lots of scratches) that would not
play at all in a good player. But it's up to you how much time you
want to spend on it before you conclude it's lost.

Sometimes when you **** up, you're just ****ed. If you had recorded on
analog tape you could have washed it or spliced it or wiped it off.

Next time, use a reliable media.

I was going to correct you, it should be "a reliable medium" but if
it's that important, at least ONE of your media should be reliable.

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http://mindspring.com/~benbradley

Ben Bradley wrote:
On 22 Mar 2005 13:27:38 -0500, (Mike Rivers)
wrote:


In article writes:


i recorded some seconds on the toc, then isobuster could read the cd
unfortunately, after 6 minutes it reads only bad sectors ...


Have you tried "finalizing" the disc, then ISObuster and/or EAC
(exactaudiocopy.de)? If it's that important, all you've got to lose is
a few more minutes (hours?) of trying.
I'm wondering why six minutes are good, then the rest is bad
sectors.

Me too

Does the data after 6 minutes play back as noise, or does the
extraction it slow down and complain about bad sectors?

Complain about bad sectors

Have you let
it run overnight trying to read it?

I left some minutes but still nothing useful

I'm not saying you WILL be able to get a good recording off the
disc, but using these tools I've gotten a clean-playing files from
discs (such as a commercial CD with lots of scratches) that would not
play at all in a good player. But it's up to you how much time you
want to spend on it before you conclude it's lost.


Sometimes when you **** up, you're just ****ed. If you had recorded on
analog tape you could have washed it or spliced it or wiped it off.

Next time, use a reliable media.


I was going to correct you, it should be "a reliable medium" but if
it's that important, at least ONE of your media should be reliable.

-----
http://mindspring.com/~benbradley

thanks for the reply

Chel van Gennip wrote:
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 19:01:16 +0100, m0nty wrote:

i'm in trouble here
i recorded a concert on a cdrw with a pioneer cd recorder then, instead
of finalize i erroneusly pressed erase (the buttons are near) I erased
only the toc (the erasing process took less than a minute ...), but the
data is still there
i have only a track, about 40 min long is there a way to recover it?
please help
thanks


If you have a Linux system, you could try to copy the whole CD-RW with the
"dd" utility to a file. You can instruct dd to continue after read errors.
See the man page for a complete description. Then import the whole file in
your DAW as raw audio, pcm 44.1/16. In the graphical display you should be
able to recognize the music you recorded.



The dd utility is also available with OSX, that may be easier to find.