Posted by RCE Defiant on 08/03/06 17:04

<hartlyuk@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1154605037.681010.238750@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>I have stored computer data on four dvd+r discs.
> They all seem to have failed,that is one is not even recognized as a
> disc by the computer, and half the files have gone missing from the
> others.
> They have scratches on them.
> The free versions of cdroller and isobuster will not recover the lost
> files.
> Is there anyway I can access these files again?.
> I cannot believe they have all physically vanished
> I am astounded that these dvd discs are so vunerable to failure due
> to a few scratches.
> Why are the Microsoft programs running on the computer so sensitive
>
> to a few scratches?.
> One would think they can display files with data 'holes' in them,but
> they just seem to ignore the whole disc if one tiny bit of one data
> track is scratched.
> Grateful for any help ,Hartly.
>

DVD's are crap at holding data long term. Have you tried reading from
multiple readers? I find that reading discs on my lappie tend to be more
successful than on my PC that burnt the discs in the first place!

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RCE Defiant

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