Pre Y2K CD

Ken Kendall wrote on 6/24/2006, 6:38 AM

Greetings Gents, I have an old CD-R disc with Pre Y2K wedding pics burned on a no longer used Sony Vaio ME2000 edtion which my current Sony/XP computer cant see/read the disk. Any way to unlock those treasured memories? -Want to load pics into Vegas- Thanks

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PeterWright wrote on 6/24/2006, 6:44 AM

I wouldn't think that it would have anything to do with the computer or which OS it was burned with - graphics are graphics. For instance - I can still use pics created with Windows 95. More likely to do with the media or burner.

Since your present PC can't read it, I would try a few friends PCs, and if one can read the disc, get them to transfer the pics to another disc or memory stick.

Chienworks wrote on 6/24/2006, 7:22 AM

Take a look at CDRoller
http://www.cdroller.com/

It's quite possible the disc wasn't closed and could only be accessed with the driver from the CD burning software installed. CDRoller seems to have no trouble accessing such discs. It's also good at recovering countless other errors. It's saved my butt and my clients' butts many times over.

I believe they have a demo download that will show you what can be recovered from the disc. If the demo shows you what you want, you can unlock it for about $30.

Jay Gladwell wrote on 6/24/2006, 7:35 AM

Kelly, any idea why the license is only good for 3 years?

Chienworks wrote on 6/24/2006, 7:43 AM

Not a clue. I never noticed that. But then, for $30 that's only $10 per year. Seems cheap enough to me. I probably get 50 times that much wofth out of it in saving clients' data. Even for a one-time use of saving precious photos from an old CD, $30 sounds pretty resonable.

farss wrote on 6/24/2006, 7:45 AM

I think that means you get free upgrades for 3 years.

p@mast3rs wrote on 6/24/2006, 8:11 AM

ISOBuster should do the trick. Saved my butt a lot of times.