Optical discs (CD, DVD, BD) have become increasingly popular because they are a relatively secure medium to store large quantities of data. However, they are not exempt from reading errors due to scratches, defects or incorrect burning.
Recover Disc offers to help you recover information stored in discs that cannot be read with regular software applications. Although it is capable of performing complex functions, this program is very easy to use. Unlike other tools of the same type, this program’s interface is not full of bells and whistles and includes exactly what was needed. In fact, you can perform most of the process by using the Refresh and Extract buttons.
The first step to use Recover Disc is to insert the problem disc and then press the Refresh button. The program will reconstruct the disc structure, even in extreme situations when the information in the file system table has been partially lost. Two recovery methods are available. You may decide to make a copy of the full disc or to extract specific elements. You can start by browsing the CD just as you would normally do in a file explorer and when you find the file or folder you need to recover, you can select it and press the Extract button. At this point, you will be prompted for information as to the location of the recovered item or what to do if a file by the same name already exists. Then, the program will start extracting the selected element. You can also set the number of read retries before the program declares a block as unreadable. In this regard, the program will also let you decide what to do with unreadable blocks.
The advantages of using Recover Disc include the capability to recover information from discs burned with DVD cameras or recorders and to merge partial data recovered in different computers. In addition, there is an Expert View that will allow you to view the full disc structure, including all the sessions, tracks and file systems. This way you can recover data from multi-session discs by accessing each session separately.
v2.0 [Oct 29, 2009]
Blu Ray media support
- Extended file search in unreferenced areas of the disc
- Ability to extract raw sector by sector data
Recover Disc features:
-Recovers data from scratched and damaged CD/DVD/Blu Ray
Damaged discs usually become fully or partially unreadable by regular software. In this case Recover Disc can be used to extract the intact portion of the data and try to recover all problem areas. It lets you browse the content of the disc and select files that you need to rescue. Alternatively it can save an image of the whole damaged disc or a specified range of sectors from it.
- Recovers data from incorrectly burned media
Sometimes disc can appear to be unreadable because of problems that took place during the burning process. The logical structure of such disc can be incorrect preventing regular software and devices from reading its content fully or partially. However, physically the disc can contain the data. Such data (for example, video and audio streams) can be extracted with Recover Disc.
- Supports discs burned with DVD video cameras and DVD recorders
Recover Disc can work with DVD media created by video cameras, DVD recorders and other standalone devices. It can help in case the disc was damaged after burning, or burned incorrectly because of technical problems with the writing device.
- Retrieves data from all sessions on multi-session discs
If there are several versions of a file in different sessions on a disc, the program lets you choose which version to extract. It also has an Expert View mode to browse full disc structure with all tracks and sessions. This way you can browse the content of each session separately.
- Supports ISO and UDF file systems
Recover Disc supports any CD, DVD and Blu Ray discs containing ISO and/or UDF file systems. UDF system is often used on discs created with “drag and drop” software that allows you to work with the disc as with usual drive, i.e. copy and change files on the fly. When Recover Disc detects several file systems on the same disc, it selects one automatically. If the information about disc content is partially lost in each file system, the program can merge the remaining data to find as much files as possible.
If a disc appears to be fully or partially unreadable on your computer, you can try to read it on another system or with a different CD/DVD reading device. When you extract a file with Recover Disc and some problem areas can not be properly read, the corresponding places in the file are left blank. When you later try to extract same file, the program will read only the part that has not been extracted before and will merge it with the previously extracted data. This will also work if you need to save an image of the full disc or a track.
