Extracting Information from a Burnt CD

Greetings,

There are a number of tools that could be useful for this task. The best one I've found is CD/DVD Inspector http//www.infinadyne.com/cddvd_inspector.html

-David

Or open the disc with a hex editor like WinHex and look at 0x8000. There you'll find (usually) what tool created it and the date/time associated. That depends on the computer clock being correct at the time, of course.
Note that the date and time may indicate when the burn project was started, rather than the exact time data was written to the disc.

Will there be a special file on the CD? (it's a music CD), or will I just be opening the whole file in WinHex?

Thanks!

Hi Sartorialist, You aren't looking for a file on the music CD, the burning software usually leaves data at the beginning of the file system on the CD.
N.B. different burning software and differing file systems leave differing data.
The following is an example from a Roxio burnt CD with ISO-9660 file system. The date can be seen clearly as "DEC_27_2005" and also at "2005122709064717" which translates to 27-12-2005, 0906hrs and the last 4 digits represent a complex offset from GMT which I cannot recall. If you are using winhex then look for data similar to the following at the start of the disk, This CD was from File Offset 0 to FO 845

·CD001··CD-RTOS CD-BRIDGE DEC_27_2005 ········[······[············································
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W··········X····"·Z······Z········i·· ·/·········· IMAPI ISO-9660 Formatter Copyright (C) 2001 Microsoft & Roxio 2005122709064717·2005122709064717

Hope that helps. For specifics google ISO-9660 or UDF which are the common file systems for CD DVD.
Cheers Dave

I just open the device using WinHex (in the tools menu or something similar) and go to offset 0x8000. At this point the data listed by dksniper appears.