Stellar Data Recovery
- 1. About Stellar Data Recovery
- 2. Basics of Data Recovery and Common Scenarios
- 3. About the Guide
4. Getting Started- 5. Working with the Software
- 5.1. Recovering Data from Existing Volume
- 5.2. Recovering Data from Lost Drive/Unallocated Partition
- 5.3. Recovering Data from CD/DVD
- 5.4. Recovering a Lost Partition
- 5.5. Recovering Data from Crashed Computer
- 5.6. Working with Disk Images
- 5.7. Working with RAID
- 5.8. Recovering Data from Virtual Machine
- 5.9. Previewing Scan Results
- 5.10. Saving the Recovered Files
- 5.11. Performing a Deep Scan
- 5.12. Saving the Scan Information
- 5.13. Configuring Advanced Settings
- 6. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
- 7. About Stellar
Stellar Data Recovery / 5. Working with the Software / 5.3. Recovering Data from CD/DVD
5.3. Recovering Data from CD/DVD
A CD/DVD disk might become unreadable or corrupt due to a number of factors, such as heat, dust, scratches on the disk. Stellar Data Recovery can recover data from damaged CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD and DVD-RW discs. Stellar Data Recovery supports recovery from corrupt optical media disks burnt on Windows, Linux, UNIX, and Macintosh systems. The application performs a scan on the selected optical media for recovery.
To scan CD/DVD:
1. Run Stellar Data Recovery .
2. From Select What to Recover screen, select the type of data i.e. Everything, Documents, Folders & Emails or Multimedia Files, you want to recover.
3. Click Next.
4. From Recover From screen, select the connected CD/DVD drive from Connected Drives.
5. Click Scan. A screen showing the scanning process is displayed. Click Stop to stop the scan at any point.
6. Once the scanning process is completed, details of the files and folder found are displayed in a dialog box as shown below:
7. For information on how to preview and recover the scanned data, see Previewing Scan Results and Saving the Recovered Files.
Note: You can select only one CD/DVD at a time for recovery.