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WTF is wrong with my files? DVD-R question - am I hosed?

Ns1

Ns1

No Lifer
Can someone smarter than me tell me wtf is going on?

I have a 4gb dvd of which 2gb is available
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yet when I go to the files, there's 60 that are 7mb each and then 600+ that's listed as 4gb a pop. Are these files all corrupted? Am I screwed?
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1) copy wanted/needed files to HDD, burn new DVD

or

2) copy wanted/needed files to HDD, write to current DVD and see what happens.
 
Fenixgoon said:
1) copy wanted/needed files to HDD, burn new DVD

or

2) copy wanted/needed files to HDD, write to current DVD and see what happens.
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Unfortunately the disc was given to me by someone else and it is unknown if the original source files still exist. when I drag the files from the DVD-R onto my computer, they are still 4gb and un-viewable.

Sephire said:
?disc rot
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fairly new disc, seems unlikely?
 
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Yeah, that looks like a bad directory/table on the disk. Rip it to an ISO and run some data recovery tools on it; see if you can extract the files that way.

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Why is the only copy of your data on a burned DVD?
 
dave_the_nerd said:
Yeah, that looks like a bad directory/table on the disk. Rip it to an ISO and run some data recovery tools on it; see if you can extract the files that way.

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Why is the only copy of your data on a burned DVD?
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Any suggestions for data recovery tools?

It was a disc given to me by a friend, of files that were on his camera.
 
Ns1 said:
Any suggestions for data recovery tools?

It was a disc given to me by a friend, of files that were on his camera.
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I've used GetDataBack on Windows, ProSoft Data Rescue on MacOS. Any utility that ignores the directory tree and actually scans the disk sector by sector will probably do the job.

You shouldn't be afraid to try a few, some might work better than others in specific circumstances. It's a little voodoo-ey.
 
dave_the_nerd said:
I've used GetDataBack on Windows, ProSoft Data Rescue on MacOS. Any utility that ignores the directory tree and actually scans the disk sector by sector will probably do the job.

You shouldn't be afraid to try a few, some might work better than others in specific circumstances. It's a little voodoo-ey.
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much appreciated; I'll try both.
 
Does it mean anything that the DVD-R won't even load properly on my mac? On PC it shows the weirdness above, on Mac it just shows up as a blank disk...

Recovery tools going now...
 
Ns1 said:
Does it mean anything that the DVD-R won't even load properly on my mac? On PC it shows the weirdness above, on Mac it just shows up as a blank disk...

Recovery tools going now...
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there is a recovery tool called testdisk. Just google this and install, its designed for job you are doing.
 
it'll take a long time if you're running it straight on the disk - better to rip the disk to your computer first using dd or something and run recovery on that.
 
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