Problems Reading Backed up DVD-Rom's - help me please

[Tim Acid]

Ez

Right I backed up all my audio files from my laptop on to 5 Blank DVD-R's before I had to wipe the drives and give the lappy back to the Office when i left the company..

stupidly I did not check that they burned ok...just trusted that Nero had done it's job and has never let me downj in the past...

Big problem....

Just gone to load the date on to my desktop and disc are showing 'o' files...

I know they were burnt succesfully ffs they took 40mins per disc to do.. but it must be a format problem..

does anyone know how I can overcome this.....or do i have to face facts that I have lost appox 20GB of audio

[Antz]

If you look at the back of the discs you should be able to see wether the discs have actually been written to or not, If they have then it sound like the way the disc has been written is not compatible with your desktop PC.
I'd try it on another machine or use some recovery software like ISO Buster etc.

[JAZ]

Older PC DVD drives have problems recognising DVDs burnt on newer drives/media could that be your problem?
A mate burned me a DVD game disk & my old 8X DVD player would say it was corrupt or an unrecognised format but soon as I put it in my new Pioneer 16X burner it worked fine.

[Tim Acid]

Thanks for your replies

ok tried it in another machine and the files are there, which is a bonus...

But problem is I want them transfered to my HDD on my main computer... I have just upgraded the firmware on the DVD writer/player and still getting same problem


what is an iso buster ??? not to techy on this sorta stuff

[JAZ]

If the disk aint recognised in your PC you have the problem I said above & isobuster or any other program wont help.
Either get a newer dvd put in your pc or get the files off the dvd in another pc & burn them to cd.

[Tim Acid]

ok bit mad never had this problem before...........ah but then i upgraded the firmware on the other machine before I backed these disks up ... that may have caused the problem...

Ah well... back to the CD's then