I just lost a lot of files.

[aimeeandbeatles]

OK, so I have a huge pile of CD-Rs, all burned on XP. I was going through them (looking for an old program), and Vista can only detect maybe half of them. Tried googling, no luck with the answers (they say to close multisession discs -- they ARE closed. Most of them are CD-Rs, anyways.) They did work on my old XP computer.

Another oddity: Sometimes Vista pops up the autoplay for a blank disc, other times it doesn't do anything at all. Sometimes with the autoplay, the used space does show up properly, but I can't see any files. Seems like a weird filesystem problem.

Still another oddity: It happens randomly. I used mixed brands of CDs, and all of them randomly failed.

Any way to pull the files off?

EDIT: I found this
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933486/en-us

But when I clicked on "Fix problems" and tried to run the diagnostic thing, it told me to use IE. No way.

 

[Methos]

EDIT: I found this
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933486/en-us

But when I clicked on "Fix problems" and tried to run the diagnostic thing, it told me to use IE. No way.

If you use Firefox there is an extension called IE Tab. Basically it allows FF to switch to the IE for certain pages. It works great, as it allowed me to use Windows update in FF.

 

[Konrad Klar]

Are you sure the CD/DVD drive in Vista PC is not a source of problem?
Friend of mine has similar "random" problem. His drive randomly refuse to read hybrid UDF/ISO9660 DVD (such as e.g. standard DVD-Video). It happens both on old and new instalation of Windows XP, so software as source of problem has been precluded. Firmware upgrade did not help too.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

The funny thing is, a couple of months ago, some of these CDs did work in my machine. Then this is the first time I put them in since I reinstalled Vista.

 

[Konrad Klar]

So it was the same CD/DVD drive in both old and new computer?
I was under impression of "They did work on my old XP computer."
And I thought the Vista was installed at brand new PC.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

OK:

So what happened is back in March or so, my XP computer fried, the rent-to-own place took the entire thing (including CD drive) back. So I got my current Vista machine.

Just after I got it, the CDs did read properly in them. But then during the summer, I reinstalled Vista, and now I can't read them.

 

[J-man]

Maybe it's the cd's. Poor quality cd-r's degrade over time. Or when stored in the wrong conditions (hot or exposed to sunlight)

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Some of these discs go back to .... ummm, 2005 I think. And they worked fine a couple months ago.

 

[Abaddon]

Just stop being such a ******. Uugh! You're infuriating!

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[aimeeandbeatles]

OK, now for something more odd:

So I popped in my SimCity 2K disc, it didn't work, So I rebooted, it worked. So I popped in one of the "broken" discs and it also works!

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Just stop being such a ******. Uugh! You're infuriating!

My IQ is 95.

 

[Abaddon]

That is no excuse for your constant avalanche of drivel that pollutes my CFC

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[aimeeandbeatles]

Your CFC? Last I heard it belonged to Thunderfall.

Oh, and click on my username> Add aimeeandbeatles to ignore list.

 

[Kraznaya]

I don't think Vista is the problem. Try them on an XP computer.

Also, pots and kettles.

 

[Zelig]

I have posted numerous times that you should expect any of your storage media to fail at any time, and should have backups of anything you'd rather not lose... if you listened to me, you wouldn't be in this situation.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Except that making a backup of a couple hundred discs or so takes a bit of time.

 

[J-man]

Did you try them all on the same computer because it sounds like either the discs are going bust or your disc drive.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

They're all on my computer. My mom's computer has a broken CD drive and the other computers aren't set up.

The odd thing though is I rebooted and now they're suddenly working. The exact same ones and I'm not joking.

 

[Zelig]

Except that making a backup of a couple hundred discs or so takes a bit of time.

About the same amount of time as it took to make all the discs in the first place... and presumably you had them all on your drive before you burned them, unless your drive failed, you should have just kept them there as well.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Well, it's hard to explain.

My first computer of my own was my Aptiva IBM. At first we didn't have a router, so the only way to transfer things over was to put them on a CD (as the floppy disks were too small.) So I have a ton of discs I burned on my mom's computer. And my mom likes to reinstall Windows every two months or so. So they're all gone to wherever overwritten files go.

Plus, my Aptiva IBM only had a 6 gig hard drive, so obviously not the best thing for long-term storage.