DVD Format using Sonic DLA

[Cindy]

I currently moved some pictures onto a DVD that was formatted using Sonic
DLA. When I was finished I went to finalize and eject the DVD and I got a
windows blue screen error and the DVD was just ejected. Now when I put the
DVD back in, it says it's blank and needs to be formatted again. Does this
mean I've lost all my pictures and if not how do I access them.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I currently moved some pictures onto a DVD that was formatted using
Sonic DLA. When I was finished I went to finalize and eject the DVD
and I got a windows blue screen error and the DVD was just ejected.
Now when I put the DVD back in, it says it's blank and needs to be
formatted again. Does this mean I've lost all my pictures and if
not how do I access them.

Thanks for your help.

First - lesson to be learned here... Copy, don't move. After the copy has
been verified and you see it works in the way you intended, then erase the
original. Although, that brings up something else: you should always have
two copies of data that is important to you. One is just taking too big of
a risk in my opinion.

Have you tried using your SONIC software to close the session that may still
be open?

 

[ju.c]

Disable Sonic DLA. It's problematic.
Sonic/Roxio software does not need DLA.

Read about them till your sleepy:
http://www.google.ca/search?q="Sonic+DLA"+problems&hl=en&tbo=1&num=20&tbs=sts:1


ju.c

 

[Bob Harris]

Your best hope for recovery on the DVD is a program called ISOBUSTER.

It has several ways to read optical media, some that XP can not do by
itself.

If it can read something, copy (not move) it back to the hard drive. Then,
write a normal write-once, read-many type of DVD. Avoid DLA, drag&drop,
UDF, etc. These are very software/operating-system specific. In contrast,
a plain data DVD should be readable on any modern PC, MAC, or UNIX machine.
And, as others have said, have no less than two copies of important files,
one off of the PC, and never both on the same hard drive or in the same PC.

If ISOBUSTER can not recover anything from the DVD, try a file recovery
program acting on the hard drive. When files are erased or moved, they
actually remain on disk. It is only their enter in a directory (MFT, FAT,
etc) that is deleted. Assuming that little has been written to the hard
drive since this event, the odds of recovering some files is good. Hint:
Avoid making things worse by installing anything on the hard drive. Do not
defrag or do any cleanup. If XP is running, leave it running, but place
recovery software on a flash drive, CD, etc using a different PC to download
them. If the PC is off, do not turn it on, until you are ready to boot from
a CD with file recovery software. For many recovery programs, some free,
see: http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads38.html