Can data from erased cdrw be restored ?

Hi,
I accidentally erased a cdrw which contained a very complicated original musical composition. Is there a way to restore the file ? Thanks, Treesha

 

If you did the quick erase it just changed the TOC – the data is still there. If you did a full erase it can’t be recovered.

If the link eddie5659 linked doesn’t work get back. It appears that it should work as long as you didn’t do a full erase. You would know if you did as a quick erase takes only a couple of minutes where a full erase takes much longer.

 

Thanks for the suggestion. I am really in over my head now ! I downloaded CD Data Rescue, and got an error message when I tried to use it. "Fatal error - no cd devices found." Looking at the Troubleshooting section, I learned that "this is usually a problem with the ASPI drivers", so I went to their link http://www.naltech.com/aspi.htm to find what I need. There I downloaded aspichk.exe, a utility that checks my aspi situation. This is the result:


Adaptec ASPI Windows 95 (Please note I have ME)


This utility has checked your current ASPI installation. Version information and the operational status of ASPI are listed below:

Component Version Date Size

]WNASPI32.DLL 1.00(1) 06/09/100 36864
WINASPI.DLL 1.00(65) 06/09/100 3536
APIX.VXD 4.00(952) 06/09/100 29497
ASPIENUM.VXD N/A N/A N/A

ASPI is not properly installed. ONe or more components have been replaced with older versions of the software.

The log shows this :

LOG0143: *****************************************************************
LOG0144: Starting ASPICHK installer on Sun Oct 28 01:46:20 2001
ASPICHK0438: OS = Windows 95 (4.90.3000)
UPGRADE1004: c:\windows\system\wnaspi32.dll dated 06/09/2000 00:00:00, 36864 bytes.
UPGRADE1062: c:\windows\system\wnaspi32.dll version 1.0.0.1
UPGRADE1004: c:\windows\system\winaspi.dll dated 06/09/2000 00:00:00, 3536 bytes.
UPGRADE1062: c:\windows\system\winaspi.dll version 1.0.0.65
UPGRADE1004: c:\windows\system\iosubsys\apix.vxd dated 06/09/2000 00:00:00, 29497 bytes.
UPGRADE1062: c:\windows\system\iosubsys\apix.vxd version 4.0.0.952
UPGRADE0965: File c:\windows\system\aspienum.vxd does not exist
UPGRADE0369: No existing file to compare, upgrade recommended
ASPICHK0522: Inconsistent version numbers among components
ASPICHK0592: ASPI installation has problems
LOG0218: Closing installer log on Sun Oct 28 01:46:20 2001
LOG0219: *****************************************************************
Next I did a search to find ASPI driver for ME, for the CD ROM, and I found aspi32.exe, but when I go to install it, it says it is for WIndows 95/NT. Installing it has not changed the CD Data Resuce fatal error message.
I would like to try the program to see if it can recover the data on the CDRW, but so far cant get past this error message. I am fairly new to computers and all this is over my head. Help much appreciated, Thanks, Treesha

 

Force ASPI will clear out your bad ASPI layer and load one that is appropriate for ME.
Instructions: http://www.flexion.org/aspi/
Download: http://www.cyrus.troy.btinternet.co.uk/downloads.htm