Well, even if we use a proper burning tool and drive, good media and opt
for full iso CD or DVD shit will happen sometimes. So we just burn
multiple copies and stash in different places.
I'm re-scanning most of my photos due to CD-R and DVD-r media failures.
Sadly, some of my negatives and slides are damaged too (old, poor
process, excess heat, dust). Shit happens.
Evan, proper storage is the way to avoid or minimize data loss. I agree
using film is a good way to increase safety against CD and DVD failures,
but there is a lot of extra work involved - and you may still lose. Just
don't give up, and by all means try to recover the data in the hard
drive. We get lucky sometimes.
LF
JC OConnell escreveu:
Im not sure thats correct, if every brand recorder did their own thing
there would be a world of
mess. They are all supposed to meet ISO standards for CD-R and CD-RW
writing I would think. Maybe
you are referring to multisession disks that were never "finalized" when
burned? There may not
be a standard on those, I have seen that problem with DVD-video writers,
but if they are finalized
they should be able to be read by any disc reader.
JC O'Connell
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Anthony Farr
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 10:17 PM
To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List'
Subject: RE: That's it I'm Done with Digital (for now)
Last year I got an external hard drive and re-imported all my optical
media since 2002. There wasn't a single bad one. One precaution I
learned early was to not assemble a compilation by drag and drop in the
OS GUI, but to use the optical drive's GUI and create a disk that "can
be read on any computer". Apparently, different brand recorders use
different proprietary formats for disks created by drag and drop, and
disks can only be read by the drive (or brand of drive)that recorded
them. Or you need to install a reader for the old disk format on your
new system.
So now I have everything on 2 discs made at different times (all still
good), and on an external HD. I have another external HD in the box
waiting to go into service. I'll think I'll make it a part time
resident on my system, and leave it disconnected except during backups.
Regards, Anthony
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Evan Hanson
Sent: Thursday, 12 February 2009 9:29 AM
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List
Subject: That's it I'm Done with Digital (for now)
So last night the hard drive on my 2.5 year old mac died. Don't even
get me started on the fact that Apple knew the seagate drive used on
my mac was prone to failures. My last backup was on Jan 30. So I dig
out the CD's and guess what. 2 out of 10 of the CD's have failed. I
was so angry I was on the verge of cursing.
As if to taunt me my boxes of negatives were stored right next to the
CD's. I pulled out a box and looked at a sleeve, a softball game from
1982. Still looking good despite spending almost 30 years in a dark
closet.
So I think I'm going to take a break from digital for a while and
shoot only film. I know the data loss can happen in any medium but
after two devastating losses in the past 4 years I need to get back to
simpler
times.
Evan
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