Hi, I'm glad I've found a dedicated Nero forum. I've actually asked this in two other different forums and not been answered or answered by non-Nero users who couldn't help! I started off with problem 1 below. Having given up on it, I've tried altervative options which I'm also now exhausting. If anyone can solve this via Nero and my DVD-RW....great!! If not, would you mind reading on in problem 2 and see if you could help out there please??? I have a Dell Dimension 5150 PC and am running Windows XP. I added some new jpg files to my 2007 photos DVD-RW disc using Nero Express (I think, but it may have been Nero Burning Rom). I'm using Nero 7 Premium so I just select make data dvd and it selects the appropriate application for me. I thought I had changed it manually to Nero Express. Whichever app it was, when I selected Add files, it did the usual of showing me what was on the disc already so I just added the files I needed to and burnt them. I watched as a further 10 files were added. However, when I put my disc back into either drive, cd or dvd, none of them plays or shows any content on the disc. They both say it's blank! When I view the disc through Nero InfoTool, it says DVD-RW Capacity 2.34GB Layers 1 Blank capacity n/a Content: File system ISO9660, Joliet Title: 2007pix Date 28 December 2007 Application: Nero Burning Rom So it's reading the disc name but no data on it. Any advice appreciated as I'm almost frantic here as they're REALLY important and irreplaceable files................ Added info and PROBLEM 2......... Someone mentioned to me maybe it was because it was burnt with Nero and not finalized. So I tried to finalize it but Nero wouldn't give me that option on its own. Nero Burning Rom recognises 1 very long track on the disc so there is data on there. I just don't know how/what to open it with. I ran it through DVD decrypter which would only let me save it as an ISO file, which I did and then I tried extracting the individual files from there with MagicISO. MagicISO said there was nothing on the disc either, again, even though it is a very LARGE iso file! I burnt a second decrypted ISO file and this time, finalized the disc with Nero, but MagicISO said it wasn't a bootable disc and "failed to open ISO file". Nero let me finalize this time because it was an iso file from the hard drive to be newly burnt, not an existing disc I was putting in, when it doesn't seem to give the finalise option. So I'm kinda giving up on the DVD-RW. Have also bought File Saver. It did find all the deleted jpg files but not the .avi ones. File saver even recovered the folder structure for me BUT when I try to open any of the .jpg files, it automatically opens Nero Photosnap Viewer and says either the plug in is missing, corrupt or invalid! I uninstalled and reinstalled Nero 7 Premium - same thing happened! None of my other photo viewer apps will open them either! So I'm kinda putting the recovered files aside too. Oh and not only did I recover them from my hard drive....but also from the camera XD card! Still, none will open. THE ONLY OTHER OPTION I CAN THINK OF NOW.......I did actually use all the originals to create a DVD with 15 photo albums (as slideshows) and 6 videos with Nero Vision. This plays as a DVD and it's all my original photos on it. However, when I explore the disc, it's just full of Video TS files so is there any way I can actually convert back to jpg and avi OR extract jpg/avi from the video TS files? The .nvc file is that was saved before burning to DVD is now useless because it cannot find the original files in their original source as used to create the nvc file!! LASTLY - I have them stored on a public website but they all have copyright banners on them. I could save them all individually from there but that would also mean having to trim out the copyrights too...and the quality is diminished ....and they were shrunk by the website when loaded up. Having them stored in other formats elsewhere and really wanting to gather everything together first is why I just burnt to DVD-RW as data. Once all together, I normally then burn the lot to DVD-R so it can't be overwritten. Time for me to invest in an external hard drive as lesson learnt! So can anyone help with any of these problems and suggest any feasible retrieval solutions .....please?????? PHEW! I've been at this day!!! Cheers.......
It sounds as though you were burning a multisession disk as you seemed to be adding files to an existing disk. I don't ever recommend doing that as things like you have experienced often occur. I simply avoid using multisession at all. One of the problems is that the directory seems to be unreadable and that's why most programs can't find the files. I'd give ISOBuster a try. It's saved my bacon on more than one occasion. It may allow you to recover the missing AVI files. www.isobuster.com As for the recovered files, are you sure they have the correct file extension and not some file recovery file extension that's preventing you from opening them with your applications? Have you considered buying another HDD to store your photos and using DVD RWs or DVD Rs for backing up the HDD photos. Using DVDs as the sole archival medium is pretty risky unless you make backups of the DVDs as well. Again I wouldn't ever use multisession disks. I don't know if your jpegs are recoverable from the photoshow or not. Obviously, you could still capture them but I doubt they'd be at the original resolution. but I don't know for sure. Maybe someone else does. Since the DVD has vob files I'm surmising the jpegs were converted to mpeg2.
Thanks laddyboy...I'll go check out isobuster. The recovered files still have the same files names as I gave the original photos/avi...except they have [1] or [2] added. When I double click on one it opens Nero Photosnap Viewer but then says "Loading one or more of the plug-ins has failed. The plug-in files might be either corrupt or invalid". When I try to open them with Finepix Viewer, I just get a white box with a red question mark inside it! Re the DVD, I haven't yet tried decrypting that to the hard drive. When I explore the DVD disc, it lists everything as VTS files. I'm afraid I don't really understand your comment about VOB files and them possibly having been converted to mpeg2 files -- a bit over my head I'm afraid. If no-one else answers this particular post, I'll post recovery of the jpeg files from the photoshow seperately. YES... I AM now in the market for another HDD for the reasons you say! Lesson definitely learnt!...Cheers
Thanks laddyboy. I've solved the problem now but not through Nero. Someone else mentioned to me to try and recover the data from the disc by trialling DiskInternals CD/DVD Recovery. I did and it found everything. I had to buy to recover them but I think it $40 well spent. So I don't need to pursue any further. Thanks everyone for all your help and suggestions.
