Hi Folks,
I saved all of my word files and important document in a CDRW disk. Recently I loaded the cd-rw disk in dvdrw tray for checking & printing important document& resume, but I did not find no files; all files gone.But it is kind of impossible. How it happened? As far as I know nobody comes in my office room. Right now my question is that how do I recover those entire important file from CD-RW DISK?
Thanks for any recovering idea!

How did you save the file? What program? Same burner? If using a UDF program like InCD you need to properly close the disk in order to read it on a different drive. There are other quirks that I won't bother explaining until you respond.

CD-RW is not the best thing to use for this (CD-R is better). Your stuff might well still be on there if you can some way to read it.

If all else fails try a program called "ISO Buster" (or similar).

DerekW

Derek
InCD Requires CDRW, that is why I asked the OP. InCD is a packet writing program. When you eject the disk it takes quite some time and uses space up to close the disk in a manner that allows other computer to read it. Therefore some folks with only one burner eject the disk without performing that step. If you do that and your Windows install goes bad so does the data on the disk. I think all that is wrong here is the disk wasn't closed. Could also be a mishandled multisession CD too.

Sure thing OtheHill - I use InCD on XP & W98 and always wait until it's finished. I avoid doing anything else whilst burning too.

It's just that as a policy I reckon CD-R is a safer bet for important stuff (non InCD burning).

DerekW

That is why I use Roxio Drag to Disk. I can use a CDR with packet writing. It doesn't actually erase any changed files, of course, but marks them as deleted. I use it daily. Many here ask why two optical drives. Well I have THREE. A DVDrom, my trusty Plextor 12/10/32 CDRW, which always has a drag to disk CDR in it, and finally a generic 8X DVDRW.

Yeah, I used to packet write to CD-R when I had a Philips drive using French software (CeQuadrant I think).

DerekW

I like Derek's comment in Post 2.

CD-R discs are so cheap you don't need CD-RW that cost more.

i_XpUser

Again, InCD won't work with CDR. I agree that CDRW isn't good media to use. I still have the original disk that came with my first burner.

Looks like the OP left us. Or found the solution and didn't bother to let us know.

Unfortunately that seems to be the case with most users at any Forums.

They either didn't want to hear the truth or they are overwhelmed with the technical food we feed them and don't know how to respond.

It seems befitted that I post the following here:

What type of tech user are you?

i_XpUser

Especially I saved all the files from the hard drive in cdrw disk by using dvdrw media; and I use Nero software, and it came with dvdrw media.

Do you understand that there is more than on program bundled with most versions of Nero. InCD is a packet writing utility that can be bundled with Nero.
Your Nero software probably came bundled with the burner, not the media.
Try reading the disk on the SAME computer and drive as it was created on. If you can't see the files then you improperly burned multsession files. Read the help files that go with Nero, as they very somwhat depending on the version. Worst case is to use a program like was referenced in response#2.

Thanks for reply OtheHill,
When I opened that Cdrw disk; one of the HTML file says Readme, whenever i click on it, says-
Dear Customer,

You are currently trying to read a disc in the UDF Packetwriting format.
You are seeing this message instead of the contents of the disc because your system currently does not support the UDF format.

To make your System UDF compatible, we have developed a complimentary software tool, the InCD EasyWrite Reader.

To download the latest InCD EasyWrite Reader just visit our website at
http://www.nero.com

Your Ahead Software Team

You DID USE InCD to burn the files to that disk. You need to use the original drive to close the session and even then may have issues. Is the computer you are attempting to read the files using Win98se or newer? Is the CD drive capable of reading CDRW disks. Many older drives aren't. I'm pretty sure your files are intact. Refer back to my response #1. I mentioned UDF there. If you really need to read those files from whatever computer you are using you MAY need to go back to the original machine and copy the files to a CDR using normal copying methods instead of InCD. Google for packet writing software to gain an understanding of what you have.

Sorry, it seems I'm somehow confusing everyone. All I was saying is "for the future" use CD-R and some other burning program (not InCD).

"Right now" you follow the advice given (eg #14).

DerekW

Hi folks,
I couldn’t find the InCD easy write reader Nero website;
Please if you let me know the website where can I download easily the InCd easy write reader that would be appreciate for me!
Thanks for any idea!

If you created the CD in the first place you MUST already have the program on some computer.

The answer of reponse 14#
I am using WINXP PROFESSIONAL. And actually I created my CD in WINxp environment.

If WinXP has a built-in packet writer I don't know about it. Nero and InCD Both run under WinXP.
Try this: Go Start> run> Type InCD*.* and see if any file come up.

This is the message to OTHHILL,
I already tried that you mentioned the way type>start>run>INCD*. *
As far as I know that is completely wrong, when I type windows showing the red caution message.
If I put type>start>run>INCD it works.
Even I installed the old CDRW drive for checking to save those files but nothing works! Probably I will have to look for free CD data recovery software. Isn’t it?

MOHAGIAN

What I meant for you to do was to use the find command on the Start button to see if InCD is installed on your computer. If you have a version of Nero you MAY have InCD on the same CD. They don't write InCD on the face of the CD. InCD MAY be in a folder called Ahead.

Yep, where InCD is located varies with different versions. On mine it is in:

c:\program files\nero\nero7

From memory my previous version was in c:\program files\ahead\nero.

You can usually verify its presence by typing InCD in Search/All files and folders to see if its program folder is there somewhere.

If it is, you use your CD-RW as you would a floppy - move and paste commands etc, rather than using the Nero screen itself.

DerekW