recover data from an erased cd-r

[erik0103]

I'm tryting to recover lost data on a one time write 80 minute cd, somehow dragging and dropping pooched the cd and as far as the burner is concerned it thinks it's a blank cd, yet I know I've got at least 400mb of data on it. I'm using a Lucky Goldstar model
8081B with directcd ver 4.3 and easyCD creator ver 4.03e neither program will acknoloweged that the data is their. I've checked the connections (power, 40 pin IDE...) they're fine, the burner will read other cd's I've burned as well as other data and audiio cd's just not the one I need, typical (I guess their should be an emphasise on "Lucky"), I've also tried reading the pooched cd at the command prompt and got error reading drive Abort, retry, fail....
On boot up the drivers load fine (Gscdrom.sys and mscdex. If you know of any utils I can use to recover the data even if I have to copy to my HD then burn another it's not a problem, thanks.

erik_s8@hotmail.com

[prahjex]

If you are using EZCD have you tryed activating the session? You may have left the CD open when you first copied to it, after adding anything else it splits it into sessions, in order to get to the first burn you have to either activate session or try to import session, within EZCD. If you have 4.0 deluxe all you have to do is go to start/programs/adaptec easy CD/features/session selector (or something close to that) then it displays the sessions and you click the one to activate, then you can read that data. ;) ;)

[ShadowKing]

If you know of any utils I can use to recover the data even if I have to copy to my HD then burn another it's not a problem, thanks.[/B]

I just knew I had seen it somewhere, but it took me awhile to remember... http://www.cdrom-prod.com/index.html
I am not going to send it to your email, cause if I post the answer here then Everyone benefits... :D ;)

[erik0103]

Thanks for the help, I got the data back, Later.