[Ham-Computers] DVD burn issue

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Dave,

When you wrote the DVD's and finished with each, did you leave them such that 
you could have gone back and added more data or did you use whatever your 
software package (which you didn't specify) called closing and making readable by 
(almost) any DVD drive?  If the former, your problem is more than likely the 
fact that the other machines you've tried to read them with aren't running the 
same software package (or maybe a later version of it).  

In a message dated 7/13/2007 5:18:01 PM Central Daylight Time, 
dcorio at zitomedia.net writes: 
>     Not really ham related, so I'll understand if this isn't accepted.
> 
>     I used an older DVD+ only burner to burn a great many disks, 
> including videos, program archives and hard drive backups. At the time, 
> they all worked fine. Now I find out that they don't seem to work on any 
> other DVD drive! I tried some in the two I now have at home and the new 
> one we have at work, and they all act as though the disk is blank. It 
> knows a disk is inserted, but it shows absolutely noting recorded on 
> them. The CDs I recorder in that same burner, however, seem to be just 
> fine - only the DVDs are affected.
> 
>     Is this just a case of being thankful I didn't lose anything 
> priceless, or might there be some alternative (without going to the 
> expense of a data recovery company)?

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