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    Unhappy DVD nightmare

    Hi all,
    i'm in a real trouble. i have this DVD which i use to store all my computer data. i've

    burned data into it in couple of sessions now, and nothing went wrong - untill

    today. today, i wrote some new files into the disc and all the previous data in it

    dissapeared. But, when i run Nero's "Disc info" tool, it displays that the disc

    contains 4000MB of data. Though i could see none, when i open the disc in

    explorer. anybody know why this is, please?

    please i really need ur help
    thanx a lot.
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    Are the files hidden? CHeck the options in explorer for that. Is it a DVD RW or just regular R?

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    how many sessions have you made? as I remember there is a limit for CD-Rs (about 9) - maybe DVD-Rs have also such a limit? Have never encountered it cause I don't use multisession disks
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    thanx 4 the replys

    The files are not hidden and the drive is a RW.

    >>how many sessions have you made? as I remember there is a limit for CD-Rs (about 9) - maybe DVD-Rs have also such a limit?

    10 sessions. may be u are right.
    but, even if there is such a limitation, would that means that weird things happens to the data if i exceed that limitation?
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    It might result in undefined behaviour. I used to have an old video tape that said it could be used 30 times, can't remember the exact number. After I used more than the maximum number of times the image would get very very noisy and the sound would be messed up.

    I'm assuming something similar would happen with the DVD. May not be possible to retrieve the info in a comprehensible form I'm afraid.

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    Quote Originally Posted by geek@02
    thanx 4 the replys

    The files are not hidden and the drive is a RW.

    >>how many sessions have you made? as I remember there is a limit for CD-Rs (about 9) - maybe DVD-Rs have also such a limit?

    10 sessions. may be u are right.
    but, even if there is such a limitation, would that means that weird things happens to the data if i exceed that limitation?
    Your writer should give you a warning
    And it should be able to set the "default" session - in this case you can retreive the info stored in the session
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    (by saying 10 sessions, i meant that i did 10 sessions)
    i'm using Nero 7 and it didn't gave any warnings. but the data became invisible - though the Nero scan disk util even can dump the file names correctly.
    Last edited by geek@02; 01-20-2007 at 12:42 PM.
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    Ok.....there is a quick solution its called http://www.isobuster.com/. I believe the trial can only do cds last time I checked, but It has probably changed so it can do dvd's for free. You may have to buy it. It scan's disk and get your data back.

    (tip:buy a spindle of dvd-r if its a older dvd burner or dvd+r for newer burners..check your manual..... for about $15 for 50 and never get rw's. Get a new disk every time you want to a burn.)
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    ok i'll check that website.
    and thx again for all the replys.
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    you are very welcome...it really is a great program
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