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Drive shows wrong session

Question: I have a CD-R containing several sessions, but my drive shows the wrong session. It should show the last session written, but it always shows the previous or last but two session. How can I access the data I have just burnt?

Answer: There are two possibilities: either your CD-ROM file system is not working properly (try a different CD-ROM file system), or your drive has a problem with multisession CDs containing too many sessions. These drives stop reading the CD from a certain session. Unfortunately there is little we can recommend here -- aside from purchasing a new drive. We have good results with the TEAC CD516: the TEAC recognized and correctly read all sessions on a CD-R that has problems when used with a Toshiba drive or CD-burner.


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