Re: Back up your CD-R's and DVD-R's
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 get one of the free ones they all do the same thing. IsoBuster bypasses the OS routines for reading files off a drive and goes straight to the hardware to attempt to read whatever data might be on a CD or DVD. Unfortunately for all it's capabilities, it only runs under Windows, and IIRC you're running some flavor of MacOS, so you'll probably have to use an emulator, it's supposed to work with those, but I have no experience there. On 3/26/2020 8:51 AM, David J Brooks wrote: 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 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! Good idea Dave -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ UK Shoot / Edit || (O) | -- _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Any idiot can shoot with a Canon, Nikon, or Sony, it takes a special kind of idiot to use a Pentax. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Back up your CD-R's and DVD-R's
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 the aging players as older CDs. Two of three computers here don't even read ordinary audio CDs anymore. Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf Web : http://www.fotoralf.de -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Back up your CD-R's and DVD-R's
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 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! > Good idea Dave > > -- > > > Cheers, > Cotty > > > ___/\__ UK Shoot / Edit > || (O) | > -- > _ > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Back up your CD-R's and DVD-R's
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 that refused to be read on 2 of my players and when tried in a 3rd - someone else's computer - they read fine! -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ UK Shoot / Edit || (O) | -- _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Back up your CD-R's and DVD-R's
> 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 earliest digital photos are > more than 15 years old. Back in November, I went into my digital archives, > and was able to dig out some photos from 2003. But I know that somewhere in > the boxes I have DVDs with photo backups from 2003-2007. The same photos must > be on external HDDs (I hope), some of which I have not turned on for ages... > > > Igor > > PS. I've been social distancing from PDML since before the Covid epidemics. I > hope that helped the curve here... :-) > (Can I claim a partial credit for not spooking away a new list member?) You wouldn’t have spooked me away! > Y'all, stay healthy and positive! > And, Olga, welcome to the list! Thank you! I hope I will be posting more photos soon enough. > > Sent from mobile phone > > Igor > > Sent from mobile phone > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Back up your CD-R's and DVD-R's
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 CD would have been less than 10 years old as I don't think I had a CD writer before 1998. I had a very spotty success rate even then, with CDs that were supposed to be "archival" failing to read. bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Back up your CD-R's and DVD-R's
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://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, I went into my digital archives, > and was able to dig out some photos from 2003. But I know that somewhere > in > the boxes I have DVDs with photo backups from 2003-2007. The same photos > must be on external HDDs (I hope), some of which I have not turned on for > ages... > > > Igor > > PS. I've been social distancing from PDML since before the Covid > epidemics. > I hope that helped the curve here... :-) > (Can I claim a partial credit for not spooking away a new list member?) > Y'all, stay healthy and positive! > And, Olga, welcome to the list! > > Sent from mobile phone > > Igor > > Sent from mobile phone > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Back up your CD-R's and DVD-R's
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, I went into my digital archives, and was able to dig out some photos from 2003. But I know that somewhere in the boxes I have DVDs with photo backups from 2003-2007. The same photos must be on external HDDs (I hope), some of which I have not turned on for ages... Igor PS. I've been social distancing from PDML since before the Covid epidemics. I hope that helped the curve here... :-) (Can I claim a partial credit for not spooking away a new list member?) Y'all, stay healthy and positive! And, Olga, welcome to the list! Sent from mobile phone Igor Sent from mobile phone -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
