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| Thread ID: 56779 | 2005-04-15 00:21:00 | Burned CD error | jareemon (5207) | Press F1 |
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| 344973 | 2005-04-15 00:21:00 | HELP! i was gonna reformat the hdd so i burned a couple backup cds and reformatted and now i cant even get the files off the cd! I put the cd in the drive and it whirrs around for a couple minutes, i go to the cd drive under my computer, and it just says its got like 504 free disc space on the cd, which is right seeing the backed up files were only around 200megs, but it also said the whole cd was only 504mb in capacity, and none of the cd had been used!! Is there any way at all i can get these files off the cd? is there any program i can download or buy to get them off? i used, and am still using, (fogot the brand, but its a good one) a 52x24x52x with buffer underrun protection... burned withn windows xp (not using 3rd party prog) the cds are TDK CD-R80 700mb up to 52x. J |
jareemon (5207) | ||
| 344974 | 2005-04-15 00:26:00 | Did you select write to cd when u burned them using XP's builtin burning?? After u copied the files to the cd? I would use something else myself, like Nero to do data disks. What did u back up exactly?? If program files that were already installed, I doubt they wld have worked anyway. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 344975 | 2005-04-15 01:21:00 | If there was anything burned in the first place, you could try Isobuster www.smart-projects.net Programs like Nero have features that can verify that cd file match originals after burn. Always handy before deleting originals. |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 344976 | 2005-04-15 01:41:00 | Doesn't help you now, but I always use Nero - why not, excellent program and it comes with your writer. And if its really important, always put the CD back in after and check you can read it. Or you could get a USB drive of some kind and back up stuff onto that. I have an old HDD with an IDE to USB adapter I use. Meanwhile PaulDs suggestion is probably your best bet. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 344977 | 2005-04-15 04:39:00 | It isn't a backup unless: It is verified after writing, say by the Nero option. You have confirmed that you can read the files on the disk in a separate operation. (Preferably with something like the DOS file compare command.) You have at least one other copy which has been checked in the same ways. If the files are important, a few more copies stored well away from the computer are essential. Good luck. ;) |
Graham L (2) | ||
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