Re: Lost DATA

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From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 06/23/04


Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 20:37:26 +0100

David wrote:

>I have a question to ask. I use a CD-RW like a flopy disk
>to store program that I bought and program I downloaded
>from the internet for free, I drag and drop the file to
>the CD. One day I was going to use Nero to tranfer the
>file to a diffrent CD, insted I erease my CD. Is there a
>program I can use to recover these files off the CD, I
>can't seem to find any thing.

None that I know of. All I can suggest, for the future, is to realise
that CD-R disks are cheap, and more reliable. Burn such things to CD-R
using Nero, not InCD, and you won't be *able* to erase them, which is
what you need for an archive

-- 
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.  Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)


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