Windows

Recovering Corrupted Data From A DVD Or CD

Posted by on Apr 29, 2008 | 2 Comments

Gnomie Christopher Levo writes:

Hey Chris,

For a solid month, I’ve been looking for a program or a company that can take a DVD I have with over 3 GB of images and somehow pull them off of what seems to be a corrupted part of the disc. These are images of my fiance and I together, our six-year-old little girl, first vacations together, our birthdays — all that fun stuff.

Well tonight someone in the chat room let me know about a freeware program called CD Recovery Toolbox Free.

It’s a Windows-only program, but it has done the job. I’m not too sure exactly how fast it runs because it’s running under WinXP Pro in VMWare Fusion with only one virtual processor and 1 GB of RAM available to it, but it has been running all night and recovered 30 pictures!

  • http://www.goretsky.com/ Aryeh Goretsky

    Hello,

    You might also want to take a look at Naltech’s data recovery programs for optical media. I have had good results recovering data from corrupt CDs using their software, and suspect their DVD software works equally well.

    Regards,

    Aryeh Goretsky

  • GiM

    Did you try IsoBuster? Few years ago I recovered some files from a defective disk, the free functionality recover the files without “long file name”. For your pictures, if they have EXIF tag, that should be all – you don’t need any long names…