Burning images to DVD and disaster strikes.

[Fred Bloggs]

I am going to be dead meat when my missus finds out..........

I have a DVD-R disk that hold (held) about 6 years of holiday/birthday etc pictures on it. I've just added set of pictures from the holiday last week. And all the other pictures have vanished. How can that happen on a DVD-R, NOT an RW?

I really am going to be toast when she finds out............

I used a programme called "CDburnerXP" to burn the disk and checked the "leave disk open to add more files later" option. Oh dear.

[Diver]

The data/images should still be on the disk.

Try here

A common cause of lost photos is when the image files have been burned to CD, and the CD can no longer be read. There are a number of possible reasons why this can occur. One is when multi-session writing is used to burn batches of images to a disc. Either the CD was written in a form that is unreadable by a new computer or new software, or else the software somehow corrupts the file system making the CD unreadable during the process of adding a batch. It's best to burn a full disc of images at a time.

[daviejones]

Sounds like you are only looking at the latest session. You can go back to view other sessions if I recall, but cannot remember how...worth Googling.....

[Fred Bloggs]

Thanks all. I "thought" the images "should" still be there as it is an "R" not an "RW" disk. I appreciate the thoughts, I'll look at this again later.

[scooterscot]

Thanks all. I "thought" the images "should" still be there as it is an "R" not an "RW" disk. I appreciate the thoughts, I'll look at this again later.

Also remember if the drive was wiping the entire 4gig that would have taken a while at least 10 minutes, you'd have noticed.

[Moscow Mule]

You've got something that important on only one disk?

Crikey.

[Fred Bloggs]

Thanks for the comments above. Yes, just 1 disk, but that's going to change....... Ironically, I keep 3 copies of just about everything else. It's an oversight on my part

[Clippy]

Let us know what happens.

[Fred Bloggs]

Let us know what happens.

Well............ It seems there's a bunch of recovery apps out there. Snag #1 Is that until you try and use them they do not always actually tell you that they do not support optical media. Some apps support only flash media, some support only hard disk drives. Until you try them out you do not always know.

Snag #2 Is that the "free" apps that are available install themselves and identify all the recoverable files, lovely..... Then they tell you to pay xxx $'s before you can actually recover the files. Now, I do not mind paying a few $'s but I prefer to be told upfront. I've wasted several hours installing/uninstalling apps that I can't/won't use. Grrrrrr.

Anyhow, I finally used an app called "photorec_win" which is a freeware exe file that somewhat bizarrely in 2008 runs in a DOS window but does exactly what it says on the tin without even "installing" to the hard drive. Just double click and go The directory structure wasn't recovered, but I can now sort the pictures by date and sort them out. I've now got the images on 2 x 2Gb flash drives, a hard disk and a DVD-R

[NickFitz]

Anyhow, I finally used an app called "photorec_win" which is a freeware exe file that somewhat bizarrely in 2008 runs in a DOS window but does exactly what it says on the tin without even "installing" to the hard drive. Just double click and go The directory structure wasn't recovered, but I can now sort the pictures by date and sort them out. I've now got the images on 2 x 2Gb flash drives, a hard disk and a DVD-R

All's well that ends well