Recover data from a quick- erased CDRW/DVDRW disc

Procedure used to recover data from a quick-erased CD/DVD-RW disc
1. Make a file of exactly the size of the cd/dvdrw disc's capacity.
(this step may not be needed)
2. With Nero I created a new project and added the file to it so that I have the disc filled. I gues you can also fill up the disc with other files.
The reason why I fill the disc is because I want Nero to make a session that uses the entire disc. Like I wrote earlier in this thread I experienced that my CD/DVD-Drive refuses to read off the disc beyond the session's boundaries. When you quick-erase a disc there is no session anymore so the drive will not read at all. Burning a new session will overwrite the data and burning only a small session will NOT make the drive read the other data that is still on the disc.
The reason why I used the one big file is so that I could later on recognize which part of the disc was overwritten by this file because this file contained all zeros (0 x00).
3. I pressed burn and selected disc-at-once. Then while Nero was burning the leadin I pressed cancel. My CD/DVD-Drive finished writing the lead-in and Nero reported an error.
This is what was accomplished however: Now the disc contains a session that says that the used disc size is the complete disc. Nero did not get to writing file because I cancelled it. Good thing because I don't want Nero to write any files because my old data will get overwritten!
I gues it works the same with different writing software. Another method that I used during a test was simply press the reset button of the computer when the burning software was done with writing the lead-in and started with the files.
4. I had to restart the computer after cancelling burning.
With the cdrw disc inserted I saw in "my computer" that windows recognized that the disc was 650MB, clicking on it gave an error. Good so far!
Now with IsoBuster you can extract the sectors from a disc to a file. This is what I did.
I gues that if you have data- recovery software at this point it will be usefull because now (if all went well;)) the CD/DVD-Drive WILL read data from the entire disc. Anyway, I used ISO-Buster because the files that I needed to recover where a bit odd for nowadays (.XM,.S3 M,.MP3):
In IsoBuster I had to do several steps:
Step 1: Find out from and to which sector the drive will read
By choosing "Sector View" you can look at any given sector.
Here I found out what the first and the last sectors where that are readable. (Hint I used the method for the old game: "Gues a number below 100, I'll tell if it is higher or lower than what you gues")
Step 2: Extract the actual sectors
By choosing "Extract From-To" you can extract any given range of sectors to a file. My disc was a data-disc so I choose the first extraction type "User data, 2048 bytes/block...".
In the end I got a.tao file which was about 650MB. I ran several programs on it to look for files inside a file by searching for file-header-paterns:
1 . Multi Ripper 2.80 (for DOS, for the.XM files. It does many other file formats as well (jpg,png, bmp,wav,etc,etc +100 ). Try google with this query: Multi Ripper 2.80. I still had the file from good old days but I saw several good search results)
2 . Winamp for mp3.
Winamp will scan any file when you give it the extension.mp3 and play it as one big song (so I renamed the.tao file to.mp3 ). I used the discwriter to get a.wav and the Adobe Audition to manually cut and save my songs. I looked at the MP3 file format and it is hard to find an mp3 file in a big file because it has no clear header just a bunch of mpeg-frames in most cases for me. A lot of my files had no ID3 v2 or ID3 v1 tags... But after a couple of hours I recovered everything.
Finally a list of used stuff:
Software:
- IsoBuster v1.9 and above
- Nero 6.8 and above
- Multi Ripper 2.80 and above
- WinAmp v5.02 and above
- Windows XP Pro NL (patched up)
Hardware:
- NEC DVDRW ND1300 A 1.06
Disc:
- some old 4 speed CDRW/DVDRW

How to recover MOST of scratched CD/DVD data discs

For dvd do the same thing as that in cd
I learn an old thecnique to how to recover damaged or scratched disks
with some lost of data. In this case i have one borrowed game - MAX PAYNE 2
with a chunck of 4 mb lost with a scratch in CD1 Install. Here we cover some
special thecniques of how to create a full working CD from the scratched one.
First some tools will be needed:
1 . Alcohol 120%
2. UltraISO
3 . Windows XP/2000
3. Small piece of cotton
4. Dry cleaner paper
5. Finally, oil for cooking.
First step - preparing the CD
Get the cotton and drop some water, start cleaning vertically the surface of CD.
Do it 3 times and dry the water with a piece of dry cleaner paper. With a new piece
of cotton, drop some oil for cooking and start to wet the surface like you are
washing the CD with the oil. Dry carefully now. Some particles of oil will stay on the
microsurface of the scrath. It's okay. Seems the oil helps the laser of the CD/DVD driver
to read the surface again. Sure this will work with small unreadable scratchs - some hard
scratchs loose parts of the surface of the CD where we have data and it's lost forever.
But if it is loosed try anyway. Whith this tip 80% of the small scratched CD's coud be
recovered.
Second Step - testing the CD
With Alcohol 120% make an ISO - image making wizard - and lets see if the app can
read the loosed surface. In my case Alcohol 120 % had recovered 60% of the data.
This is not enough. Have tryed other appz, they do not recover all the data. But the
CD/DVD driver laser CAN recover all data in this case. the data is still there, what we do?
third step - making the new CD
With the main copy system of windows explorer you can do it. Just create one folder
with the same name of the CD label for future burn reference, and copy the CD content
to the folder. When the CD copy process find the scratch, in majority of the cases, it's
slow down the reading and will recover ALL loosed data.If not, it just tell you there's
an unreadable sector. In this case your CD is lost. But it's not my case, finally
windows explorer got all the data from the scratch and made a copy in the folder.
with the ultraISO, wrote the original CD label, drop the content of the folder and
save as Iso. You can Test the new CD just mounting the iso in the Alcohol 120%. In my
case i did ISO of the two discs from MAX PAYNE 2 and tested installing from the mounted
ISO. Works like a charm. I got the 4 mb lost again. So, I have burned the CD and now i
have a working copy from the scratched one.
Sounds too bizzarre, but works. Course you can jump the cleaning process and try to copy
the content with Windows explorer. But in my case did not work without oil...

Rapidshare Direct downloading Without Waiting..

1. Goto the page you want to download
2. Select FREE button
3 . In the address bar put the following: javascript:alert(c=0)
4. Click OK
5. Click OK to the pop-up box
6. Enter the captcha
7. Download Your File
2. Request a new IP address from your ISP server.
Here's how to do it in windows:
1. Click Start
2. Click run
3. In the run box type cmd.exe and click OK
4. When the command prompt opens type the following. ENTER after each new line.
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
exit
5. Erase your cookies in whatever browser you are using.
6. Try the rapidshare download again.
Frequently you will be assigned a new IP address when this happens. Sometime you will, sometimes you will not. If you are on a fixed IP address, this method will not work.

Google search hacking

Well if u ask me this is the best Part " how to Search ",Anyone anywhere needs something out of the great "www", now if u know how to grab hold to "something" in one click that is the skill, this article henceforth is one of my best my best, n especially crafted to meet all your needs !!
Google Operators:
Operators are used to refine the results and to maximize the search value. They are your tools as well as ethical hackers' weapons
Basic Operators:
+, -, ~,., *, "", |,
OR
Advanced Operators:
allintext:, allintitle:, allinurl:, bphonebook:, cache:, define:, filetype:, info:, intext:, intitle:, inurl:, link:, phonebook:, related:, rphonebook:, site:, numrange:, daterange
Basic Operators !!
(+) force inclusion of something common
Google ignores common words (where, how, digit, single letters) by default:
Example: StarStar Wars Episode +I
(-) exclude a search term
Example: apple -red
(") use quotes around a search term to search exact phrases:
Example: "Robert Masse"
Robert masse without "" has the 309 ,000 results, but "robert masse" only has 927 results. Reduce the 99% irrelevant results
Basic Operators
(~) search synonym:
Example: ~food
Return the results about food as well as recipe, nutrition and cooking information
(. ) a single-character wildcard:
Example: m.trix
Return the results of M@trix, matrix, metrix.......
( * ) any word wildcard
Advanced Operators: "Site:"
Site: Domain_name
Find Web pages only on the specified domain. If we search a specific site, usually we get the Web structure of the domain
Examples:
site: http://shaswat.bravehost .com
Advanced Operators: "Filetype:"
Filetype: extension_type
Find documents with specified extensions
The supported extensions are:
- HyperText Markup Language (html) - Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt)
- Adobe Portable Document Format (pdf) - Microsoft Word (doc)
- Adobe PostScript (ps) - Microsoft Works (wks, wps, wdb)
- Lotus 1-2-3 - Microsoft Excel (xls)
(wk1 , wk2 , wk3 , wk4 , wk5, wki, wks, wku) - Microsoft Write (wri)
- Lotus WordPro (lwp) - Rich Text Format (rtf)
- MacWrite (mw) - Shockwave Flash (swf)
- Text (ans, txt)
Note: We actually can search asp, php and cgi, pl files as long as it is text- compatible.
Example: Budget filetype: xls
Advanced Operators "Intitle:"
Intitle: search_term
Find search term within the title of a Webpage
Allintitle: search_term1 search_term2 search_term3
Find multiple search terms in the Web pages with the title that includes all these words
These operators are specifically useful to find the directory lists
Example:
Find directory list:
Intitle: Index.of "parent directory"
Advanced Operators "Inurl:"
Inurl: search_term
Find search term in a Web address
Allinurl: search_term1 search_term2 search_term3
Find multiple search terms in a Web address
Examples:
Inurl: cgi-bin
Allinurl: cgi-bin password
Advanced Operators "Intext;"
Intext: search_term
Find search term in the text body of a document.
Allintext: search_term1 search_term2 search_term3
Find multiple search terms in the text body of a document.
Examples:
Intext: Administrator login
Allintext: Administrator login
Advanced Operators: "Cache:"
Cache: URL
Find the old version of Website in Google cache
Sometimes, even the site has already been updated, the old information might be found in cache
Examples:
Cache: http://shaswat.bravehost .com
Advanced Operators
..
Conduct a number range search by specifying two numbers, separated by two periods, with no spaces. Be sure to specify a unit of measure or some other indicator of what the number range represents
Examples:
Computer $ 500..1000
DVD player $ 250..350
Advanced Operators: "Daterange:"
Daterange: -
Find the Web pages between start date and end date
Note: start_date and end date use the Julian date
The Julian date is calculated by the number of days since January 1 , 4713 BC. For example, the Julian date for August 1 , 2001 is 2452122
Examples:
2004.07.10 = 2453196
2004.08.10 = 2453258
Vulnerabilities date range: 2453196-2453258
Advanced Operators "Link:"
Link: URL
Find the Web pages having a link to the specified URL
Related: URL
Find the Web pages that are "similar" to the specified Web page
info: URL
Present some information that Google has about that Web page
Define: search_term
Provide a definition of the words gathered from various online sources
Examples:
Link: shaswat.bravehost.com
Related: shaswat.bravehost.com
Info: shaswat.bravehost.com
Define: Network security
Advanced Operators "phonebook:"
Phonebook
Search the entire Google phonebook
rphonebook
Search residential listings only
bphonebook
Search business listings only
Examples:
Phonebook: robert las vegas (robert in Las Vegas)
Phonebook: ( 702) 944-2001 (reverse search, not always work)
The phonebook is quite limited to U.S.A
But the Question rises What can Google can do for an Ethical Hacker?
Search sensitive information like payroll, SIN, even the personal email box
Vulnerabilities scanner
Transparent proxy
So how but if i tell u a different way to search
k lets do this type in the following statements n c d results
we can only provide u the guidelines, now u need to implement your Creativity to Keep it rolling.
http://shaswat.bravehost .com
Salary
Salary filetype: xls site: edu
Security social insurance number
Intitle: Payroll intext: ssn filetype: xls site: edu
Security Social Insurance Number
Payroll