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From: Ben Taylor on 12 Jul 2010 05:45 On 12/07/2010 7:41 AM, idgat wrote: > On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 13:53:40 +1000, Ben Taylor<not(a)home.net> wrote: > >> On 11/07/2010 12:47 PM, Rob wrote: >>> On 11/07/2010 11:56 AM, Ben Taylor wrote: >>>> Last year I backed up my camera pics and movies on a CD-R disc. >>>> Now when I try to open it to get files and it won't. >>>> I have tried File Scavenger, Easeus, Recover my Files. >>>> When I right click and choose Open, the door opens and it says Insert a >>>> Disc. >>>> When I choose Properties / General I get: >>>> Used space: - Full blue disc 0 bytes >>>> Free space: - ....... 0 bytes >>>> >>>> So there is still data there but how can I get to it? >>>> >>>> Appreciate any help. >>>> Ben >>> >>> Try another CD reader. Even through they will play music may not read >>> data and vice versa. >> >> Have 2 DVD drives, tried on both. > > You need to try it in another computer. not just a different drive in > your computer. > > What program did you burn it wirh? > -- > idgat > Compuglobalhypermeganet Inc. Actually now you made me think - I was using XP when I made it but now I'm trying to open it on Wni7. Would think it would ber OK then. Ben
From: Ben Taylor on 12 Jul 2010 05:46 On 12/07/2010 7:43 AM, idgat wrote: > On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:56:35 +1000, Ben Taylor<not(a)home.net> wrote: > >> Last year I backed up my camera pics and movies on a CD-R disc. >> Now when I try to open it to get files and it won't. >> I have tried File Scavenger, Easeus, Recover my Files. >> When I right click and choose Open, the door opens and it says Insert a >> Disc. >> When I choose Properties / General I get: >> Used space: - Full blue disc 0 bytes >> Free space: - ....... 0 bytes >> >> So there is still data there but how can I get to it? >> >> Appreciate any help. >> Ben > > Join, then post your question in this forum - likely to get much wider > range of responses > > http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum/10 > -- > idgat > Compuglobalhypermeganet Inc. I'll try this thanks. Ben
From: Rod Speed on 12 Jul 2010 18:23 Ben Taylor wrote: > On 12/07/2010 1:12 PM, Rod Speed wrote: >> Ben Taylor wrote: >> >>> Last year I backed up my camera pics and movies on a CD-R disc. >>> Now when I try to open it to get files and it won't. >>> I have tried File Scavenger, Easeus, Recover my Files. >>> When I right click and choose Open, the door opens and it says >>> Insert a Disc. >> >>> When I choose Properties / General I get: >>> Used space: - Full blue disc 0 bytes >>> Free space: - ....... 0 bytes >>> >>> So there is still data there but how can I get to it? >> >> http://www.infinadyne.com/ >> >> > No wouldn't even select the drive. Must be something fucked with the hardware. Try it in a different PC.
From: AStext on 12 Jul 2010 20:24
On Jul 12, 7:15 pm, Ben Taylor <n...(a)home.net> wrote: > On 12/07/2010 10:34 AM, AStext wrote: > > > > > On Jul 11, 11:56 am, Ben Taylor<n...(a)home.net> wrote: > >> Last year I backed up my camera pics and movies on a CD-R disc. > >> Now when I try to open it to get files and it won't. > >> I have tried File Scavenger, Easeus, Recover my Files. > >> When I right click and choose Open, the door opens and it says Insert a > >> Disc. > >> When I choose Properties / General I get: > >> Used space: - Full blue disc 0 bytes > >> Free space: - ....... 0 bytes > > >> So there is still data there but how can I get to it? > > >> Appreciate any help. > >> Ben > > >> Used space: - Full blue disc 0 bytes > > > Why does it say full blue disc? Is it a blue ray? In which case, is it > > not a blue ray DVD, rather than a CD-R? > > My Computer > rt click on drive > properties > > Little disc pie image has blue slice for Used space & Purple slice for > Free space. > > > Did in fact the data ever get written, ie, did you verify the write at > > the time? > > Of course I did ... I think. I get a disc to eject on completion of writing, then put it back in immediately and see if it will mount and I can access the files. I've had many a disc apparently complete, but fail to mount straight after. No idea why. The only other thing I can think of is maybe you were using a cd as a ram disc - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InCD - which I found to be not worth the effort. It might be that you need to re-install the InCD packet writing software with your new OS . . Just a thought .... not worth worrying about if you really don't think so . . > > Is the machine you are trying to read the data from, the same machine > > that you burned the data on? Is your current DVD drive blue ray > > capable? > > Same DVD drive.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - Given that your dvd writer is the same, (different OS shouldn't make any difference) and the disc cannot be mounted, there is no |