Oops... Copied critical data to DVD-R before System restore; then

Long story but had to do a system restore to clean up my three year old Sony
computer. I made a backup folder on my harddrive. Then I copied pictures,
word docs, and other files nested in their owne folders inside the backup
folder. I then dragged the backup folder to my DVD-R drive and watched while
the system copied the files. Burnt two DVDs just to be safe.

Did the system restore, but when I try to access the DVD it does not show
any file structure or any file. No access error message and shows the disc
as having 0 bytes available.

I know the files were copied but I'm guessing the file structure was somehow
tied to the computer before the restore (sorry about incorrect use of
technical terms).

can anybody help??
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Old Fart

Flash wrote:

> Long story but had to do a system restore to clean up my three year old Sony
> computer. I made a backup folder on my harddrive. Then I copied pictures,
> word docs, and other files nested in their owne folders inside the backup
> folder. I then dragged the backup folder to my DVD-R drive and watched while
> the system copied the files. Burnt two DVDs just to be safe.
>
> Did the system restore, but when I try to access the DVD it does not show
> any file structure or any file. No access error message and shows the disc
> as having 0 bytes available.
>
> I know the files were copied but I'm guessing the file structure was somehow
> tied to the computer before the restore (sorry about incorrect use of
> technical terms).
>
> can anybody help??
> --
> Old Fart

You probably didn't close the DVD (make this DVD readable on any PC) and now
WinXP doesn't recognize it.
CD-ROM Drive May Not Be Able to Read a UDF-Formatted Disc in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;321640

Re-install the DVD burning application and see if that helps.

Flash wrote:
> Long story but had to do a system restore to clean up my three year old Sony
> computer. I made a backup folder on my harddrive. Then I copied pictures,
> word docs, and other files nested in their owne folders inside the backup
> folder. I then dragged the backup folder to my DVD-R drive and watched while
> the system copied the files. Burnt two DVDs just to be safe.
>
> Did the system restore, but when I try to access the DVD it does not show
> any file structure or any file. No access error message and shows the disc
> as having 0 bytes available.
>
> I know the files were copied but I'm guessing the file structure was somehow
> tied to the computer before the restore (sorry about incorrect use of
> technical terms).
>
> can anybody help??

Perhaps lesson learned too late...never drag-and-drop to a
DVD-R blank (or for that matter, a CD-R blank). Instead, burn
to the media through a CD/DVD burning application. One thing
to try - close or finalize the disc.

And one more rule...never delete any material off the HD until
their recovery is first assured.

Flash wrote:

> Long story but had to do a system restore to clean up my three year old Sony
> computer. I made a backup folder on my harddrive. Then I copied pictures,
> word docs, and other files nested in their owne folders inside the backup
> folder. I then dragged the backup folder to my DVD-R drive and watched while
> the system copied the files. Burnt two DVDs just to be safe.
>
> Did the system restore, but when I try to access the DVD it does not show
> any file structure or any file. No access error message and shows the disc
> as having 0 bytes available.
>
> I know the files were copied but I'm guessing the file structure was somehow
> tied to the computer before the restore (sorry about incorrect use of
> technical terms).
>
> can anybody help??

See if Isobuster can help:
http://www.isobuster.com/

--
Rock
MS MVP Windows - Shell/User

=?Utf-8?B?Rmxhc2g=?= wrote:
>
> Did the system restore, but when I try to access the DVD it does not show
> any file structure or any file. No access error message and shows the disc
> as having 0 bytes available.

Next time. Test the backup you made before you do anything else.



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