major problem

I have a cd which includes several image files of family photos and I have them in several seperate files...I don't know what happened but all of them will open in acdsee except two and they will not open..it says source data not recognized....what did I do?...they are irreplacable photos and I can't recover them...I have cleaned the cd and cd drive and still can't get them..I've used different viewers ect....I even tried a file recovery program and had no luck...please someone...help me...genso

 

Can the two bad folders be copied to your hard drive as whole folders?

 

Thanks for answering so quickly Sach..I tried copying to pc and it will copy but results are the same unreadable source data...this cd is a couple years old and had been readable before...what could have caused this?

 

I don't really know what causes the problem, I've lost pictures on CD-R/W. I only use CD-R for back up. Not sure if that applies in this case.

Hang in there, I was only checking a simple option, perhaps others have some ideas.

 

yes It was a cd-r....I hope someone can help...thanks

 

I'm unclear as to when you are getting the unreadable source error. I think are you saying that you were able to copy the files from CD to your hard drive w/o a problem and that Acdsee is giving you the error message. In other words you have a picture file on your HD and Acdsee is unable to open it because it is damaged. If this is true, how big is the file, is it similar in size to working files?

 

Something else you can try is to use a different CD drive on someone elses computer. If your drive is slightly out of alignment (and they aren't worth repairing) you might be able to recover your original disk. If this works it would be worth buying another CD or DVD-RW, they run around $60 or so.

 

That's not the problem Bill. I've got two cd drives and neither will read the files I guess...acdsee just says source data not recognized..what's that mean anyway?

 

These two files are small jpeg files of less than 5 mb on a cd containing several similar files which all work except those two...they all worked well before these files are a couple years old. I cannot find out how to get them to show so I can save them...

 

Try IrfanView and see what error you get when trying to open the photo. They have a support forum that will let you upload the file and they will try and determine what part is damaged.

http://www.tucows.com/preview/194967

 

I tried all that and they don't know..every viewer I've tried is same..even isobuster won't recover the files...someone?

 

Thanks but I tried that one as well..so far nothing has recognized the files..they were there three weeks ago and viewable on cd by acdsee now not....someone must know the answer...pretty please