I run a website and had all my pictures on a CD-RW disk.

The disk was working fine until today, the photos I have on the disk will not open. The disk was just purchased and does not appear damaged.

If I try to copy the files to a new location, I get an error message “Invalid MS-DOS Function"

These photos are very important, does anyone know of a way I could recover them?

Thanks,
PhyllisI know of two otions... Try dragging them out of the CD to your desktop... OR try this... open the files from the CD in a paint program, and use the Save As function to save it to your computer...

[glb]Flame[/glb]Thanks for the suggestions! I tried them, still didn’t work. Same message comes up.

Still open for any more ideas.

Thanks,

Phyllis
I have to open a small program called incd to be able to access cdrw disks. Are you doing anything at all differently from when the disk was working? Like trying to use it on a different computer or something?No, I am not doing anything different. I have never tried to open it on another computer. I just put the disk in to access the pictures and at first, the icons would not come up, (I paniced ), rebooted my computer, and tried again. Now, I can see the icons to all my pictures and files but still can't open them.

I don't know what happened.

Phyllis
Does this computer have a a CD burner? Maybe you need to have the CD in the burner drive for it to open?

[glb]Flame[/glb]The computer has a burner drive and a DVD drive.I TAKE it that it's been in the burner drive then... About the error message... Is there any more detail that you can give me about it?

[glb]Flame[/glb]Not really. :-/

If I try to copy one of the photos to my desktop the message reads "Can't copy file Invalid MS-DOS Function".

If I try to open or view from the CD, it freezes and I get a program not responding.

If I try to open one of them in another program like Adobe Photoshop, it freezes or Paint the error message is "F:/Pictures.DSCNO745.JPG paint cannot read this file. This is not a valid bitmap file or its format is not CURRENTLY supported”, "unknown error occurred while accessing"

I can see the pictures in Thumbnail but can't touch them.

Thank you so much for taking the time to try to help me!
No problem! Give us a holler when you see the message... (Take a PICTURE of it)

[glb]Flame[/glb]Just tried to open the files on another computer didn’t work. I couldn't EVEN see the thumbnails that I do on my computer.

I am still open to ideas, :-/ and if I ever get to see my pictures/files again, I will pass on how.

PhyllisI'm a little CONFUSED here, have you tried the disk in the burner, I'm guessing you have but you didn't quite answer Flame's question on this.
You'd think if your computer can display thumbnails then it is reading the file & therefore be able to copy it.

weirder & weirder. have you tried this>>http://www.smart-projects.net/isobuster/No. I haven't tried that link. Thanks for the suggestion.

I will post any changes.