Recover old format images

[nomadking]

Originally Posted by iadom

I had already had a look at that lightroomclean post., the OP there was trying to open them in Win 7 though. When the dvd drive drawer is closed the indicator light flashes a few times and you can hear the drive clicking and whirring for a few seconds.

I will more than likely go down the regedit route if all else fails.

My point is that the user could see the disc and it's contents, whereas you can't at the moment. A while ago I transferred files from CD-R discs written from 2004 and before. Windows 10 could see them because of the common standard file system.
IIRC there is an issue with writeable CDs(CD-R and CD-RW), where if the disc hasn't been "closed" properly after writing to it, it can be the luck of the draw as to whether any other CD/DVD drive can read the discs. Using the same physical drive that was used to write to it, should work.
If the drive can see other discs, then I'm not sure what the "regedit route" might achieve.

[Jaymoss]

Originally Posted by iadom

I have three original discs and one a copy I burned years ago, they all react in the exactly same way.

If I put a blank disc in the drive can see it but these four are invisible for some reason???

The discs are spotless and have rarely been played tbh.

They are still 15 years old

[iadom]

One thing I am going to try first is to let a mate of mine who has a couple of PC’s still running XP try them out.

---------- Post added at 19:33 ---------- Previous post was at 19:32 ----------

Originally Posted by iadom

One thing I am going to try first is to let a mate of mine who has a couple of PC’s still running XP try them out.

So was the blank disc I tried.

[iadom]

Update..

I was going to try a couple of suggestions such as altering hidden file views etc, slotted in one of the errant dvd's and the darned thing only loaded up and ran.?????


I am going to try and extract the images I want to keep and copy them elsewhere.

Thanks to everyone who replied, fingers crossed I can get the stuff off the discs before they corpse again.

Jim.

[heero_yuy]

Originally Posted by iadom

Update..

I was going to try a couple of suggestions such as altering hidden file views etc, slotted in one of the errant dvd's and the darned thing only loaded up and ran.?????

If the Drive and DVD are marginal a change of temperature in either can make the disk readable.

Hope you can rescue the rest of the pictures.

[iadom]

Really strange, all four of these discs where basically invisible to the PC and yet the same drive could see and open more recent discs and even blank discs stored in exactly the same place and temperature as the old ones.