Unable to read batch of BD-R's - any recovery utilities that might work?

[itm]

I've been burning backups to 25GB BD-R's using ImgBurn for a number of years. I've just tried to recover files from some of the discs (burned about 5 years ago), and there are a batch of about 10 discs which can't be read at all - they are all TDK blue label discs. When I insert any of the discs into the drive I get "The Device is not ready".

I guess that this was a bad batch of discs, but was wondering whether there were any utilities (for Windows 10) which might be able to recover any of the data from these discs?

[dbminter]

Generally, no.  When discs can't be read, that's it.  Optical is a generally all or nothing situation.

 

What you might have better luck with is not a utility to recover the data but a different drive to try reading the discs in with.  Try someone else's drive and see if the discs still behave the same way.  If they don't AND they have a different make and model of the drive you have, you know the discs are shot.

 

[itm]

Thanks for your reply - I feared that this might be the case