Posted by: schofiel
CD ROM disk analyser tool? - 19/01/2006 11:25
Please bear with me on the generality of this question, folks. Believe it or not, it does have bearing for the empeg.
I have a CDROM (CD-R). I used it in multi-session mode to continually archive files onto it a few years ago. At the time I was running NT4 SP3 which had a known bug in the CDFS device which related to session access. I believe the disk is Joliet formatted, but I am not sure.
At the moment, the disk is extremely awkward to read: it appears as if the disk does indeed contain the data still, and that the file system structure is still there. However:
- it takes ages initially (a few minutes) to read the disk on Windows, but does eventually come up.
- attempting to read files on the disk can take a long time or hang up, as if there are many retries going on.
It's likely this behaviour has resulted from corruption of the session directories during a failed write to the disk. It probably means the latest session directory is corrupt, but the earlier ones may still be there.
For various reasons, it's important for me to get to this material and retrieve all (or as much as is possible) from the disk. Before you all go "So where's your backup?", well this IS the backup
What I am looking for is a tool that runs either under Windows or Linux, that will allow me to mount the disk and inspect the directory structures on the disk to allow me to retrieve it manually.
Does anyone know of anything like this or can recommend anything, either free or commercial?
I have a CDROM (CD-R). I used it in multi-session mode to continually archive files onto it a few years ago. At the time I was running NT4 SP3 which had a known bug in the CDFS device which related to session access. I believe the disk is Joliet formatted, but I am not sure.
At the moment, the disk is extremely awkward to read: it appears as if the disk does indeed contain the data still, and that the file system structure is still there. However:
- it takes ages initially (a few minutes) to read the disk on Windows, but does eventually come up.
- attempting to read files on the disk can take a long time or hang up, as if there are many retries going on.
It's likely this behaviour has resulted from corruption of the session directories during a failed write to the disk. It probably means the latest session directory is corrupt, but the earlier ones may still be there.
For various reasons, it's important for me to get to this material and retrieve all (or as much as is possible) from the disk. Before you all go "So where's your backup?", well this IS the backup
What I am looking for is a tool that runs either under Windows or Linux, that will allow me to mount the disk and inspect the directory structures on the disk to allow me to retrieve it manually.
Does anyone know of anything like this or can recommend anything, either free or commercial?