Re: Back up your CD-R's and DVD-R's

2020-03-28 Thread P. J. Alling
Dave, you might want to try a paid program called IsoBuster. I used to have a license for it many years ago, and it was astounding the files it would recover from badly damaged media. I haven't used it in a while but compared to all the other recovery programs I've tried, you might as well ge

Re: Back up your CD-R's and DVD-R's

2020-03-26 Thread Ralf R Radermacher
Am 26.03.20 um 13:10 schrieb Steve Cottrell: Dave if you have a different player, try that for the ones that couldn't be read. I've had some that refused to be read on 2 of my players and when tried in a 3rd - someone else's computer - they read fine! My impression is that it's just as much

Re: Back up your CD-R's and DVD-R's

2020-03-26 Thread David J Brooks
On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 8:11 AM Steve Cottrell wrote: > On 25/3/20, David J Brooks, discombobulated, unleashed: > > >recently i started to copy over my pre 2005 CD's and DVD's to my external > >hd's. A surprising number of them could not be read by the player > > Dave if you have a different play

Re: Back up your CD-R's and DVD-R's

2020-03-26 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 25/3/20, David J Brooks, discombobulated, unleashed: >recently i started to copy over my pre 2005 CD's and DVD's to my external >hd's. A surprising number of them could not be read by the player Dave if you have a different player, try that for the ones that couldn't be read. I've had some th

Re: Back up your CD-R's and DVD-R's

2020-03-25 Thread Olga Iona Custer
> On Mar 25, 2020, at 8:52 AM, Igor PDML-StR wrote: > > Hi all! > > Reading this prompted me to stick my (not-sneezing-yet) head in here... > https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/16/18678447/9-11-ground-zero-world-trade-center-pictures-recovered > > I realized that the time flies so fast, and my e

Re: Back up your CD-R's and DVD-R's

2020-03-25 Thread Bill
On 3/25/2020 5:49 PM, David J Brooks wrote: recently i started to copy over my pre 2005 CD's and DVD's to my external hd's. A surprising number of them could not be read by the player When I bought my first Drobo in around 2007 I transferred as many of my CDs as I could over to it. My oldest

Re: Back up your CD-R's and DVD-R's

2020-03-25 Thread David J Brooks
recently i started to copy over my pre 2005 CD's and DVD's to my external hd's. A surprising number of them could not be read by the player Dave On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 11:53 AM Igor PDML-StR wrote: > Hi all! > > Reading this prompted me to stick my (not-sneezing-yet) head in here... > > https:

Back up your CD-R's and DVD-R's

2020-03-25 Thread Igor PDML-StR
Hi all! Reading this prompted me to stick my (not-sneezing-yet) head in here... https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/16/18678447/9-11-ground-zero-world-trade-center-pictures-recovered I realized that the time flies so fast, and my earliest digital photos are more than 15 years old. Back in November,