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Is cd data permanently lost after 13 years?
Posted: 27 Jun 2021, 22:19
by Daryl
I have a cd that is 13 years old. was full of pictures. The files were saved on a widows pc back in the day. While trying to view the files on my linux pc they do appear in the browser as existing files (some zipped and some not). They will not open. Instead I get the following message..."No application found for "file such and such" and there is an option to view other applications to open the files. When I run test disk and have it analyze partition structure it finds no partitions at all. Was a partition created in order to save files or were the files able to be just dumped onto a new cd without partitioning? Seems like if the files faded away do to age there would be no record of them.
Re: Is cd data permanently lost after 13 years?
Posted: 27 Jun 2021, 22:31
by recuperation
Read:
www.cgsecurity.org
If you have lost partition or strange problem with your
hard disk partitions, run TestDisk to recover your data.
Testdisk does not work with your CD.
Re: Is cd data permanently lost after 13 years?
Posted: 27 Jun 2021, 22:45
by Daryl
This is on an old CD not a hard drive. I have run testdisk and no partition is found. I read that on cds and dvds the data is encoded in a dye which fades away in time. This makes sense but it doesn't make sense that the directories and file icons still show up and file sizes and other property info still shows up. My completely inexperienced opinion is that there is still something to be found on this disk.
The disk properties show file system type as "isofs" if that means anything.
Re: Is cd data permanently lost after 13 years?
Posted: 27 Jun 2021, 22:49
by recuperation
Why did I put "hard disk partitions" in bold writing and red colour?
I did so to tell you that Testdisk could not help you.
Unfortunately you did not understand my posting. You wrote:
I have run testdisk and no partition is found.
As Testdisk does not support CDs this is the expected resultat - unfortunately.