I mistakenly hit "create data cd" in Nero CD Speed

[Harrier]

Is there anything i can do to retrieve this action?
Not only did i waste a TY cdr but it also has useless data on it..
And Kprobe won't even read it..

Is there anything i can do?

[dhc014]

Once you've written to a CD-R disk, you cannot "un-write" it. This test CD is good for doing tests on.

[Harrier]

Actually the cdr isn't physically written. If it had been i'd see the darker color scorched by the laser beam.

[dhc014]

Think about it: you told it to create a data CD, so unless you cancelled it before any writing took place, then something was written to the disk. Maybe so little, or so much was written that the obvious color difference isn't so obvious.

[dodecahedron]

...it also has useless data on it..

so how is it possible that the CDR wasn't phisically written?
it must have been.

too bad about the TY CDR (a rarity here in Israel, i agree...), but just save it for testing!

[jedimc]

maybe it didnt burn it was just simulate burn

[Harrier]

Nope..
The files are there and there's a narrow circle around the tube of the disc.
The funny thing is when go and check the capacity of the disc it says 565MB used, 0 available. And it only physically wrote about 80MB as far as i can tell, based on the width of the circle.

[blakerwry]

so you've lost what? $0.10? ...$0.30?

[dodecahedron]

closer on $1.
and TY is very hard to find here, in the land of milk, honey and terror attacks...

[pranav81]

Dear Harrier,
Hi.No the CD cant be retrieved now.I did the same thing once while testing and tried to cancell the procedure before actual writting began,but the writer had obeyed the commands at very fast speed and ejected before completely burning.When I reinserted the CD-R it told me 703 MB used(full capacity) while I see only a small circle of about 20-25 MB burned.
See ya later,


::Pranav::

[CDRecorder]

I had the same thing happen once. The TOC and some of the data were burned, and then there was an error. The drive would "see" all of the files in Windows Explorer, but it wouldn't be able to copy many of them.

[pranav81]

Yes,LiteOnGuy same thing happened to me,but instead of some error I myself had hit the eject button to save one CD,but the writer was very prompt and had started writing the CD.
See ya guys later,


::Pranav::