I had saved various drivers and installable program files to a CD-RW disk with no problems.
Nothing that I would be desperate without, but a bit of a loss.
Then I used "My Drivers 3.11" from www.zhangduo.com/driverbackup.html [15 day trial] to backup ALL of my 64 drivers [21,209,398 Bytes] to a folder on the CD [each driver is automatically put in its own folder].
Rather long addresses like:
"H:\Saved\Drivers\For Win98SE\By My Drivers 3,11\2005,Sept,4th\IO READ DATA PORT FOR ISA PLUG AND PLAY ENUMERATOR"
but they work ok.

Began to experience problems.
All the other folders and files have disappeared; only the new drivers show.
"Properties" shows the CD as full.
Tried to "Cut n Paste" from the CD to the HDD, but got "Access Denied".
Managed to "Copy n Paste" to the HDD ok, so the new driver folders/files are safe.
Tried to use "DirectCD's" own "Scandisc.exe".
All the folders were being seen by Scandisc.
It found a single corrupted folder; gave it permission to fix, but it couldn't manage to make the fix.

Get the following errors:
"Cannot Delete xxxxx: Access is denied"
"Unrecoverable Read Error...Data can no longer be correctly retieved from disc."

Am I going to be forced to use "CD Eraser" on this disk and lose all the data?
Or is there a way to recover the data?

Before scrapping the whole shooting match try Get Data Back. Iv'e used it once with ok results. Don't know if it will read cd-rw's though.

I vaguely remember coming upon software specifically made to recover files from Cd's; but then that may be on the the problem CD. :( :confused:
I wonder if it's in the Firefox bookmarks?
That's where it was, and here it is
http://www.smart-projects.net/framepage.htm?http://www.smart-projects.net/isobuster.htm

I'll give it a try. :)

Verrry interrresting...

1. Isobuster read the full contents with ease, but wouldn't EXTRACT unless I paid up.
Apparently certain features are free and the others are not. Extracting folders & files written by "Direct CD" is one of the "not's".

2. So I began reading the rather detailed help files and those mentioned that rewriters are the best drive to use to try to read a disk, but that various drives should be tried. So I tried my CD-reader and "bingo", it read the content of the CD just fine [How so?]

3. So I copied the missing content to the HDD | used "CD Eraser" to erase the disk | re-formated it for use with "Direct CD" | copied the files back from the HDD to the CD-RW disk.

4. Now the CD-RW drive can see ALL the folders and files.

SUCCESS ! :D :cool: