ProgrammingAce
10-17-2008, 06:31 PM
Ouch, that was painful...
I'm looking for some advise. Here's the background:
I've been told by my company that they plan on moving me across the country sometime between the end of the month and January. They're not paying any expenses. Whatever, i can live with that.
I have some stuff laying around that i'd like to do something with, but i haven't decided what. One of the items is a copy of Kameo for the Xbox1.
When i received the disk, it didn't work. There's not a scratch on it, but the files all show as 0 bytes. I can get the table of contents to show up, but none of the files will copy. I've tried the disc on about a dozen systems and they all show similar if not worse results.
I see two options at this point, i can either toss the disc on ebay for a dollar with a big ol' warning that it doesn't work or i can try sending it to a data recovery shop and see if they can pull anything off of it.
Problem is, i don't have the cash to pay for data recovery right now. If there's some interest out there, I would be willing to take up a collection towards the costs and then give whatever is recovered to the community. No watermarks, no bullshit.
I don't know what is on the disc, it could be a two level demo that was given to the press or it could be a full build.
Thoughts?
I'm looking for some advise. Here's the background:
I've been told by my company that they plan on moving me across the country sometime between the end of the month and January. They're not paying any expenses. Whatever, i can live with that.
I have some stuff laying around that i'd like to do something with, but i haven't decided what. One of the items is a copy of Kameo for the Xbox1.
When i received the disk, it didn't work. There's not a scratch on it, but the files all show as 0 bytes. I can get the table of contents to show up, but none of the files will copy. I've tried the disc on about a dozen systems and they all show similar if not worse results.
I see two options at this point, i can either toss the disc on ebay for a dollar with a big ol' warning that it doesn't work or i can try sending it to a data recovery shop and see if they can pull anything off of it.
Problem is, i don't have the cash to pay for data recovery right now. If there's some interest out there, I would be willing to take up a collection towards the costs and then give whatever is recovered to the community. No watermarks, no bullshit.
I don't know what is on the disc, it could be a two level demo that was given to the press or it could be a full build.
Thoughts?