Vista Tutorial - can't open pics on cd-r anymore

I have cd with all the pics from my son't first year on it. I don't have these files saved anywhere except for the cd anymore. I opened it once today because I got some more files that I needed to see if they were on it. There were some that weren't. So, I went to burn them and noticed that I actually didn't want some of the temp files waiting to be burned on there. So, I canceled it. Then I went to open the cd again to redo which ones I wanted to burn. Now, I can't view the files on the cd anymore. It just says drag files to add them to the disk. When I right click on the drive in my computer I can browze with Infran that I have installed. But, not even half of the pictures are there. The disk was not made on a vista computer. But, I don't think that is the issue because it opened just before all of this happened. My dh also has vista and I tried to open it on his. It says the disk may be corrupt or needs to be formatted. I tried to format it. But, it says it will erase the files. Not that I know what it was before. But, right now it says that there is 89.9mb used and 612mb free. But, nothing will open when I open folder to view files. Please tell me the pics are not lost.

lucky4you wrote:================================
Maybe the following program could
recover your photos:

IsoBuster
http://www.isobuster.com/

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Hi
Sorry but at this stage I cannot offer any help - but am hoping that you can help me. I have done virtually the same thing as you. But when I tried to cancel the burn as you did, the computer locked and in the end we had to turn it off with cd still in drawer. When we tried to load the cd after, the message was the same as yours - "drag files to add them to disk". Drag files from where? It also says that the folder (cd) is empty. I am going to try opening the disk on another computer today.
I was wondering have you had any success using the isobuster link?

Hi wend isobuster is a free program if it is used for specific types of files, happily photos are one. If there are any pictures on your CD, isobuster will find them and you can restore them to a folder on your computer and perhaps burn a new CD. Give it a try, I would not be without it, even though I have not had to use Isobuster since I got Vista, I do have it installed, just in case.

Thank you very much for your reply. However I am delighted to report that I took the 'empty' CD to my local ASDA photo section and loaded it into their computer and all 290 pictures appeared. I got them to burn a copy of the CD which loads into my computer fine.

I really don't know what happened/what I did in the first place, but am really glad that this story has a happy ending.

I will certainly bear the isobuster in mind should I encounter similar problems in the future.

Glad you got your photos and thanks for reporting back.

I wasnted to let everyone know that isobuster worked like a charm. I have all the pics back and made new disks. Thanks for the help. Sorry I didn't respond sooner.

It is a very good program for sure, thanks for reporting back lucky4you
When I was using Win 98se ( remember that OS?) I made a few multisession DVD's and erased the files from my computer. I found out later that Win98 does not support multisession using DVD's. I was able to extract all the Multisession files using Isobuster and have had it installed on my computers ever since. ( just in case)