Hi all,
I was under the impression that Recuva could recover deleted files from external devices like CD-R.
Yet it will not allow me to select the DVD RW Drive to scan - very annoying. When I browse to the location, the "OK" button is disabled.
So instead, it's searching my whole PC for deleted picture files. That won't recover files that were formatted over on a CD-R will it?
Many thanks,
Sheena
CD-Rs don't delete things in the same way as HDD or SSD.
I'm not sure where you got the impression,and I'm sorry if I'm incorrect, but I do believe that cd-r can not be retrieved by Recuva.
Nergal, I think that you missed a 'not' from 'but I do believe that cd-r can be retrieved by Recuva'.
Recuva can't recover deleted data from anything that's in an optical drive. Although you can browse to the drive using the wizard, you can't select the drive. There are very few programs that can recover deleted files from a CD-R, and I shouldn't think that many users delete files on a CD-R in the first place.
There are CD/DVD/Bluray recover software(s), but most usually cost money, and most are completely useless if the disc was erased/formatted, usually they can deal with discs that still have the data on them but are seen by Windows as corrupted due to bad blocks, scratches, etc. If the disc still has the data on it and you're not having luck with recover software try the disc in a completely different drive, some drives can fail where another can be better at recovery.
I suppose this is learning the hard way: Don't store irreplaceable files on re-writable discs! And even if you store them on write-once media like CD-R, DVD+-R, etc., (and those discs can go bad even if you don't use them) you should have multiple duplicate copies.