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| Thread ID: 41452 | 2004-01-11 21:23:00 | CD-R backup of photos/video using XP | Ken H (5083) | Press F1 |
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| 206838 | 2004-01-11 21:23:00 | I have successfully burned pictures and video to the same CD-R a number of times as I built up a backup file using XP's copy to CD function. The last time I tried it appeared to run out of room (although it indicated there was enough space before it started) and I had to cancel out. Now I can't access anything on the disk. It looks as if it does not exist to the software. I imagine it hasn't written the index correctly the last time. I know there is good data on it as I have been able to view files form it before this. Does anyone know of a program that can recover files from a CD without needing the index?? | Ken H (5083) | ||
| 206839 | 2004-01-11 22:07:00 | If anything goes wrong during a CD write, it magically becomes a coaster. I am not aware of any way of recovering the data but there might be special tools for doing so. I am not aware of them. It's usually obvious at the time of writing that something is NBG, so I just do it again and fix what I cocked up. Anyone else got any ideas? robo. |
robo (205) | ||
| 206840 | 2004-01-11 22:24:00 | there are a few tools around such as badcopypro (www.jufsoft.com). i can't seem to find the free one that i have used in the past :( | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 206841 | 2004-01-16 01:38:00 | Thanks for the information on Badcopy. I downloaded the trial version and it ran for about 4 hours on the 3rd option. Found 1 file that was very large. (I thought I had saved under a number of folders but I may have put it all in the one by mistake). Anyway the file was too large to preview and of course it wouldn't save under the trial version. So I am not sure if it did or could recover the files in this instance. Have to think about spending the money for the key to allow it to save the files it finds. Seems like it would work though. Thanks for your help..............Ken. |
Ken H (5083) | ||
| 206842 | 2004-01-16 01:46:00 | Send it to the police with an anonymous note: "This disc belongs to Ken H. You might find something of interest on it." They'll recover all your files (and probably find a few you never knew you had). They're quite good at that sort of thing :-) |
argus (366) | ||
| 206843 | 2004-01-16 01:57:00 | Umm. I used to do a lot of archiving on big magnetic tapes. I learned the rules very early. They are: 1. you don't "add" files to a tape. 2. it's not backed up until you have it on three tapes. 3. It's not backed up unless you have read it back, and it matches the disk copy exactly. With big disks these days to make it easier, it would be wise to follow these rules with writable CDs. To add some files, you copy the previous files on the CD to the HD. You write them and the new stuff to another CD. Then you use the OS's "compare" programme. You can alternate two CDs like that. That way you have always got an untouched CD and can recover from "errors" and "accidents". |
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