Oops... Copied critical data to DVD-R before System restore; then

[Guest]

Long story but had to do a system restore to clean up my three year old Sony
computer. I made a backup folder on my harddrive. Then I copied pictures,
word docs, and other files nested in their owne folders inside the backup
folder. I then dragged the backup folder to my DVD-R drive and watched while
the system copied the files. Burnt two DVDs just to be safe.

Did the system restore, but when I try to access the DVD it does not show
any file structure or any file. No access error message and shows the disc
as having 0 bytes available.

I know the files were copied but I'm guessing the file structure was somehow
tied to the computer before the restore (sorry about incorrect use of
technical terms).

can anybody help??

 

[Lem]

Long story but had to do a system restore to clean up my three year old Sony
computer. I made a backup folder on my harddrive. Then I copied pictures,
word docs, and other files nested in their owne folders inside the backup
folder. I then dragged the backup folder to my DVD-R drive and watched while
the system copied the files. Burnt two DVDs just to be safe.

Did the system restore, but when I try to access the DVD it does not show
any file structure or any file. No access error message and shows the disc
as having 0 bytes available.

I know the files were copied but I'm guessing the file structure was somehow
tied to the computer before the restore (sorry about incorrect use of
technical terms).

can anybody help??

You probably didn't close the DVD (make this DVD readable on any PC) and now
WinXP doesn't recognize it.
CD-ROM Drive May Not Be Able to Read a UDF-Formatted Disc in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;321640

Re-install the DVD burning application and see if that helps.

 

[Ghostrider]

Long story but had to do a system restore to clean up my three year old Sony
computer. I made a backup folder on my harddrive. Then I copied pictures,
word docs, and other files nested in their owne folders inside the backup
folder. I then dragged the backup folder to my DVD-R drive and watched while
the system copied the files. Burnt two DVDs just to be safe.

Did the system restore, but when I try to access the DVD it does not show
any file structure or any file. No access error message and shows the disc
as having 0 bytes available.

I know the files were copied but I'm guessing the file structure was somehow
tied to the computer before the restore (sorry about incorrect use of
technical terms).

can anybody help??

Perhaps lesson learned too late...never drag-and-drop to a
DVD-R blank (or for that matter, a CD-R blank). Instead, burn
to the media through a CD/DVD burning application. One thing
to try - close or finalize the disc.

And one more rule...never delete any material off the HD until
their recovery is first assured.

 

[Rock]

Long story but had to do a system restore to clean up my three year old Sony
computer. I made a backup folder on my harddrive. Then I copied pictures,
word docs, and other files nested in their owne folders inside the backup
folder. I then dragged the backup folder to my DVD-R drive and watched while
the system copied the files. Burnt two DVDs just to be safe.

Did the system restore, but when I try to access the DVD it does not show
any file structure or any file. No access error message and shows the disc
as having 0 bytes available.

I know the files were copied but I'm guessing the file structure was somehow
tied to the computer before the restore (sorry about incorrect use of
technical terms).

can anybody help??

See if Isobuster can help:
http://www.isobuster.com/

 

[Plato]

Did the system restore, but when I try to access the DVD it does not show
any file structure or any file. No access error message and shows the disc
as having 0 bytes available.

Next time. Test the backup you made before you do anything else.