itm Posted February 1, 2023 Share Posted February 1, 2023 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbminter Posted February 1, 2023 Share Posted February 1, 2023 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itm Posted February 2, 2023 Author Share Posted February 2, 2023 Thanks for your reply - I feared that this might be the case Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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