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6. Recovering CD/DVD/BD Data |
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7. Additional features |
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8. FAQs |
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9. Customer Support |
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Annex A Controls and dialog boxes |
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A.4. Preferences |
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In
addition to another methods of CD/DVD/BD data recovery, Scan UDF
Disc gives you a good chance to retrieve several types of
files, including:
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Files
are not visible in Windows Explorer - the writing process was
interrupted by a system or power failure before UDF folders
were placed on the disc, but most or all of the files were written
to the disk. This means that the files may be on the CD (DVD, BD),
but Windows Explorer cannot see them.
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Lost
files - complete files that do not have a file name associated with
them. They can also be files that you accidently deleted
from the CD (DVD, BD).
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Files
on the disks quick-formatted by Roxio DirectCD and Nero
InCD.
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Files
located in unreadable (damaged) UDF folders,
including the root one.
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Files
located on Sony Mavica CD finalized with failure on the
camera.
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To start Scan UDF Disc select the same option in the
Tools menu or in the Side Bar. The program displays a
progress dialog similar to the one shown here.
After UDF scan is completed or canceled, found files and/or folders
are displayed in the Lost objects detected on
disc... window similar to the one shown here
You can rename the selected folders, open them with the help of
Open command, or left double clicking on their names. If the
lost folders have been found, try to open them first. This may give
you a chance to recover the files with original names that are
located in the found folders.
When applying the Recover All / Recover Selected commands,
the program automatically identifies the types of files, initially
shown as FileXXXX ones, or the files having an intermediate
extensions, such as .ole2 for MS Office ones.
If you know an original type, you can rename the selected files
manually, with the help of Rename command, or/and use New
Extension option to speed up the re-naming process in case of
the large list.
Hints and Tips.
If you're going to retrieve UDF files from the same disc at the
different times, you can save the table of contents
(names,locations, attributes) of the found files into separate file
by Save Table Of Contents command from the File menu.
Further, check on the Load Table Of Contents from file box
on the UDF Reader tab in the Preferences dialog. Next
time, when you will run Scan UDF Disc the program will
display the list of the found objects shortly, without scanning the
disc, and you can continue to retrieve the files data.
Trouble Shooting.
If the program can not recognize UDF disk, but you are certainly
sure the disk contains the files, we recommend you to try the
forced scan of the disk. This may be useful if the disk was
incorrectly finalized, and the system data are not accessible. For
example, this problem often occures on Sony Mavica CD when
the finalization step failed on the camera.
To start the forced scan, you should initially know what CD/DVD
mastering program (or device) formatted your disk. For example:
Roxio (Adaptec) DirectCD, Nero InCD, PacketCD or Sony Mavica CD
digital camera. Further, you should assign an appropriate profile
in the Forced scan list under the UDF Reader tab in the Preferences
dialog and click the Refresh button in the Tool Bar.
Note.
Obviously, there is no 100% guarantee to recover all displayed
files completely, please keep in mind, that some files may be
erased or partially re-written by a new ones. The program can
restore those FILES DATA, which else it is possible to
rescue.
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