DVD Recovery - Is Recovery Possible from Corrupted CD/DVD

Recover Lost DVD Data

Most of the people store their crucial data on optical media it may be any of the following CDs, DVDs, Blu-Ray disks, and HD DVDs. But from these too the most reliable being considered is the DVD, the main reason behind is, it can handle shocks, dust, static electricity, sunlight and water better than any other optical storage media.

Following are the situation that may be the cause of lost data from optical media-
  • Scratching: to resolve the scratche issue you can apply wax on the scratched portions of CD/DVD's and then after some time remove it with soap soaked cloth.
  • Software corruption: DVD recovery software the only option
  • Accidental or malicious formatting:
  • Data being overwritten
  • Wrong CD/DVD writing standard usage

The data loss reasons remain the same for for all Operating systems, may it be Linux, Mac or Windows just the file format is what changes for all of them. This changes the way of data recovery of the optical media different too. You need to look out for the DVD recovery software that supports all the file systems like ISO 9660, Joliet, ISO 9660:1999, UDF.

Most of the times people think that there should exist another software for LightScribe discs, Multi-session discs, Mixed Mode discs, Bootable discs, Audio and Video discs. But, that is in the case if a data recovery company is trying to sell different software for different kind of error that means that the company is not being fare to you. Google about the companies which offer only one software with all these functionalities. Even if the optical media is written using any Packet Writing software like InCD, Drag To Disk, Direct CD, DLA, then too the recovery is possible using only one software.

The data is recoverable and that too with ease but, it all depends upon you, have you found the right data recovery software the first time or you are still hunting for it. The decision is yours!