Information Recovery from DVD

Before formatting my PC, I of course backed up many of my precious files. Being that I posses no external HDD, I used DVD-R.

One of the discs that I burned, for some damned reason, is showing no data. XP sees it as a blank writable CD, but there is obviously information written on the damned thing.

So, anybody know of any good data recovery techniques? Should I try making an image of the disc, and then try to get something out of the .iso? The only thing I'd really like to get back from the disc is my damn 4chan folder, which holds a 4 years in the making image collection.

recompile your kernel

Try it in another computer.

Try dd if=/dev/srX of=loliso.iso and see what you get.

check your system32 folder it usually stores the temp files for burning in there, and if there is a whole lot of other folders and files you need to remove them because they are spyware and will stop your computer from burning the correct imformation to disc and actually reading the disc after burning is complete

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OP here. I already tried that, and after deleting everything there the overall performance of my computer was really enhanced by it, but the DVD problem still persists.

OK it sounds like you need to go to www.opera.com and download opera as it is a much more stable browser and is faster and uses less RAM than leading browsers. Also it burns DVDs over 9000 times faster than other leading DVD burning software.

Check it in whatever program you used for burning it. It's possible that your data is there, but the disk writing session wasn't finalized.

Alternatively try to read it on another computer or with another OS.