Old Recordable CD's!

[MarillionFan]

When I burnt to these 10 years back and made a few back ups, then I expected them to fooking work when I stuck them in my Windows 7 machine in 2012.

Three 'historical' pieces of work that I would like to use this evening! Not a single fooking one has loaded?

Now maybe I'm being a little thick. But surely a data CD I burnt 10 years ago could be recognised now?

Any ideas anyone?

[eek]

We live in the new dark ages as all information from this period will be lost.

As your poor quality CDRs confirm.

[TestMangler]

You didn't close them when you made them, making them usable only on the machine you burned them on ?

[MarillionFan]

You didn't close them when you made them, making them usable only on the machine you burned them on ?

I've got about 4 desktops and 4 laptops in the loft. I wonder what wonderful things I will find when I look.
What a pain in the arse!

[doodab]

CD-R etc use an organic dye that degrades with exposure to UV light. If they are exposed to direct sunlight they will be unreadable in a matter of days or weeks. Early ones weren't very stable at all and even stored well I wouldn't expect them to last 10 years.

[AtW]

Any ideas anyone?

Ask for product replacement or full money back.

"The design life is from 20 to 100 years, depending on the quality of the discs"

Compact Disc - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

HTH

[MarillionFan]

Well hacked off about this. May have to pull out an old machine(I bet they work then)