I dug up some old discs I had burned years ago (2001 I think, probably
running Win ME or Win2K at the time) that I cannot read on my new
LiteOn LH20A1S DVD burner. This is in a machine I built, with AMD 64
2x, 2 GB RAM, and Windows Vista Ultimate.
What's weird is I can see the folder structure, and when I drill down
into the folder that should have the data, I see nothing. When I open
Alcohol 120% and use the CD/DVD Manager, I can click on Properties for
the disc and see that it's got 664 MB of data on it, but I can't seem
to read it.
Other discs I copied at or around the same time and with the same long-
gone machine I can read, but some of the discs give me this problem.
Is there a utliity that will "fix" the disc problem?
The problem is a deteriorating disc. You can use the LiteOn to perform a
quality scan with either KProbe or Nero CDSpeed, and it will show you the
errors. Try limiting the read speed to the minimum, try the disc on another
drive. Apart from that there's nothing you can do.
<jwoiton@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> I dug up some old discs I had burned years ago (2001 I think, probably
> running Win ME or Win2K at the time) that I cannot read on my new
> LiteOn LH20A1S DVD burner. This is in a machine I built, with AMD 64
> 2x, 2 GB RAM, and Windows Vista Ultimate.
>
> What's weird is I can see the folder structure, and when I drill down
> into the folder that should have the data, I see nothing. When I open
> Alcohol 120% and use the CD/DVD Manager, I can click on Properties for
> the disc and see that it's got 664 MB of data on it, but I can't seem
> to read it.
>
> Other discs I copied at or around the same time and with the same long-
> gone machine I can read, but some of the discs give me this problem.
> Is there a utliity that will "fix" the disc problem?
>
> TIA!
>
It was only two days ago that I recovered a number of old photos on a
CD-R using IsoBuster. This CD could not be recognised in a CD reader
but when I put the CD in a writer IsoBuster recognised all the files
and I used drag'n'drop to my HDD.
A demo version allowed me to see the files; a license allowed me to
recover them.
YMMV
>I dug up some old discs I had burned years ago (2001 I think, probably
>running Win ME or Win2K at the time) that I cannot read on my new
>LiteOn LH20A1S DVD burner. This is in a machine I built, with AMD 64
>2x, 2 GB RAM, and Windows Vista Ultimate.
>
>What's weird is I can see the folder structure, and when I drill down
>into the folder that should have the data, I see nothing. When I open
>Alcohol 120% and use the CD/DVD Manager, I can click on Properties for
>the disc and see that it's got 664 MB of data on it, but I can't seem
>to read it.
>
>Other discs I copied at or around the same time and with the same long-
>gone machine I can read, but some of the discs give me this problem.
>Is there a utliity that will "fix" the disc problem?
>
>TIA!
On Jun 10, 2:57 am, Monty <m...@home.invalid> wrote:
> jwoi...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> It was only two days ago that I recovered a number of old photos on a
> CD-R using IsoBuster. This CD could not be recognised in a CD reader
> but when I put the CD in a writer IsoBuster recognised all the files
> and I used drag'n'drop to my HDD.
> A demo version allowed me to see the files; a license allowed me to
> recover them.
>
> YMMV
>
>
>
> >I dug up some old discs I had burned years ago (2001 I think, probably
> >running Win ME or Win2K at the time) that I cannot read on my new
> >LiteOn LH20A1S DVD burner. This is in a machine I built, with AMD 64
> >2x, 2 GB RAM, and Windows Vista Ultimate.
>
> >What's weird is I can see the folder structure, and when I drill down
> >into the folder that should have the data, I see nothing. When I open
> >Alcohol 120% and use the CD/DVD Manager, I can click on Properties for
> >the disc and see that it's got 664 MB of data on it, but I can't seem
> >to read it.
>
> >Other discs I copied at or around the same time and with the same long-
> >gone machine I can read, but some of the discs give me this problem.
> >Is there a utliity that will "fix" the disc problem?
>
> >TIA!- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
Very cool, thanks and duly noted. Sounds like it's worth the license.
I think I just found a common thread in all my "unreadable" discs.
Nero CD-DVD Speed 4.7.5.0 (see above) says the disc is "open."
Does anyone know how I can "close" it?
>On Jun 10, 2:57 am, Monty <m...@home.invalid> wrote:
>> jwoi...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> It was only two days ago that I recovered a number of old photos on a
>> CD-R using IsoBuster. This CD could not be recognised in a CD reader
>> but when I put the CD in a writer IsoBuster recognised all the files
>> and I used drag'n'drop to my HDD.
>> A demo version allowed me to see the files; a license allowed me to
>> recover them.
>>
>> YMMV
>>
>>
>>
>> >I dug up some old discs I had burned years ago (2001 I think, probably
>> >running Win ME or Win2K at the time) that I cannot read on my new
>> >LiteOn LH20A1S DVD burner. This is in a machine I built, with AMD 64
>> >2x, 2 GB RAM, and Windows Vista Ultimate.
>>
>> >What's weird is I can see the folder structure, and when I drill down
>> >into the folder that should have the data, I see nothing. When I open
>> >Alcohol 120% and use the CD/DVD Manager, I can click on Properties for
>> >the disc and see that it's got 664 MB of data on it, but I can't seem
>> >to read it.
>>
>> >Other discs I copied at or around the same time and with the same long-
>> >gone machine I can read, but some of the discs give me this problem.
>> >Is there a utliity that will "fix" the disc problem?
>>
>> >TIA!- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
>Very cool, thanks and duly noted. Sounds like it's worth the license.
>
>I think I just found a common thread in all my "unreadable" discs.
>Nero CD-DVD Speed 4.7.5.0 (see above) says the disc is "open."
>Does anyone know how I can "close" it?
>
A Google search of "cd finalize" will offer many suggestions. If you
don't find one that works for you then IsoBuster will do the job, as
described above. Incidentally, this is the exact reason why I went to
IsoBuster; I couldn't find a technique that would work for me!
Old CD-Rs on a new LiteOn player 
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