So apparently my Mac Pro has a defective superdrive in the lower slot, which for some reason beyond me always reports a specific brand of DVD-RW (Memorex) as "blank", even when they're not.
This has lead me to full erase (not a quick erase!) a very important DVD-RW that had some of my backup data on.
My extremely simple question is this:
Can data be recovered from a fully erased DVD-RW in any way? I can quite clearly see that the entire disk on the bottom has been overwritten by the drive (as the entire platter is a darker shade then when I originally bought the disks). I can also just barely make out the ring of data where my former backup resided (usually you can see where data has been written to a DVD-RW, since the shade of the medium gets darker every time you write to the disk).
I need to know if this is possible or not, or if I'm screwed (which I'm somewhat positive I am).
Once again, I did a full erase on this disk. Not a quick erase. Please do NOT reply and give me links to software that recovers data from a quick erase. I have already tried them all.
I am looking for something- anything- that might be able to still read the data off after a full erase. I don't even know if this is physically possible. If you know for certain that it isn't, please let me know as this will save me the time from continuing to look for a method to recover my data.
-SC
This has lead me to full erase (not a quick erase!) a very important DVD-RW that had some of my backup data on.
My extremely simple question is this:
Can data be recovered from a fully erased DVD-RW in any way? I can quite clearly see that the entire disk on the bottom has been overwritten by the drive (as the entire platter is a darker shade then when I originally bought the disks). I can also just barely make out the ring of data where my former backup resided (usually you can see where data has been written to a DVD-RW, since the shade of the medium gets darker every time you write to the disk).
I need to know if this is possible or not, or if I'm screwed (which I'm somewhat positive I am).
Once again, I did a full erase on this disk. Not a quick erase. Please do NOT reply and give me links to software that recovers data from a quick erase. I have already tried them all.
I am looking for something- anything- that might be able to still read the data off after a full erase. I don't even know if this is physically possible. If you know for certain that it isn't, please let me know as this will save me the time from continuing to look for a method to recover my data.
-SC