[Canadian_man001]

Heres the thing, 5 full DVDs backed up from my laptop and none of them work. Ive burned working dvds before. No comptuer on the face of the earth wil access them. What i think it might have been is oversized file names that effected the formatting of the DVDs. I seem to be able to read certain portions of them on some and the rest wont read. Any suggestions on a program that might be able to get by the format of the DVD and get past this theoretical problem with file names larger than 128 characters?

[XEN]

Burn slower and use better DVD-Rs.

[Eps]

Most burning programs will recognize if the file names you are using are overtly large. They will then automatically change the disc format to accomadate this. It should be not be a problem. Are you using different media from before? Is the drive just getting old? Try burning slower and closing out any unnesscessary programs.

[j0k3r]

Try ripping it with Alcohol. I have been able to recover some pretty effed up discs with it.

[Canadian_man001]

I dont want to make new disks. I allready have all my files on the DVDs and they are gone off the hard drive. I need to retrieve the data from the DVDs i allready have burned

[j0k3r]

Originally Posted by Canadian_man001

I dont want to make new disks. I allready have all my files on the DVDs and they are gone off the hard drive. I need to retrieve the data from the DVDs i allready have burned

...and that is not really an option for you at this point or we wouldn't be having this conversation. Rip them to ISO and them mount them with Alcohol 120%.

[Canadian_man001]

ok ill try that thanks for the help