Did you try the trial from Ontrack:
http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecoverydatarecovery/
Michael
"kenny" <nope@at.all> wrote in message
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> This thing is making me go crazy...
>
> I have a DVD (data disk) that I wrote about 9 months ago and I verified
> the
> recording...
> the DVD had original books and stories that we wrote. Now when we place
> the
> DVD inside its not working at all! the surface has no scratch at all... I
> have tried 3 DVD readers but all of them fail...
>
> I have only been able to use ISOBUSTER to see that the DVD has a track 1
> (this is of course natural) but I cannot extract the data...
> its as if some energy or heat was applied to the DVD and all the data was
> erased from the surface.... But if this was so.. wouldn't the other DVD
> and
> cd's next to it suffer the same fate? Another backup we had was on a cd
> rom.
> This too cannot be read! All the computers say that there is no disk !
> After
> close inspection I see a very small dot of the shiny surface of the disk
> (the top side of the disk) that is missing and it is in the inner part of
> the disk..closer to the hole, where the data starts.
> I have tried various programs even booting into KNOPPIX hoping that with
> Linux I could read the disks.. but with no luck... this one just cant be
> seen as a disk at all! All the info I have seen on Google is about
> recovering disks with scratches on the transparent side of the disk.. but
> my
> DVD has no scratches and the cd has that small defect on the shiny side!
>
> This is Murphy's law at work at its greatest... these disk that were so
> important
> were destroyed while other trash cds in the same box work fine!!!
>
> Does anyone have any advice?
>
> Thanks...
>
>
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