Firstly, sorry know this is not a PS problem, but…
I met with a client in central London first thing this morning (at reasonable time and cost ) especially to pick up a DVD of photos. Therefore (I thought) gaining a day on a busy project as the DVD would have otherwise been in the post. However I got back to my office – and the DVD won’t load…
I tried for 2 hours to crack it, but to no avail using both sys 9.22 and OSX. It briefly teased me by displaying some contents but wouldn’t allow me to copy and mostly causes the drive to whirr for a while before spewing the disk out. The drive is okay with all other disks so it seems the disk is corrupt. Does anyone know any way of retrieving data from a seemingly dodgy DVD?
I am currently sitting in the corner of my office having a little cry to myself…
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I should have added that this client has supplied numerous disks in the same format before. All have been okay so don’t think it’s the keyboard. I guess he could have formatted it differently (accidentally) or failed to verify properly…
There are lots of reasons. Maybe your client switched to cheapie generic media? Maybe it was burned with different software? DVDs are very very sensitive to dust, fingerprints, and scratches. Maybe someone pressed a little too hard with a pen when writing on the disc? If its very cold outside and you bring into a warm office, that could cause temporary problems too.
I think your outa luck on that *or I may be wrong*
I have horrible luck when one of my bosses burns CD’s for me…I get the whir and then nothing…turned out it was the software he used to burn it that was causing problems…
Your best bet like everyone else said, is ask for another copy…
Think you’re right. For whatever reason it’s a duff disk and I don’t have another computer with a DVD drive to be sure.
Drag is, client is in Barnet, I’m in Honor Oak. If you don’t know London (and a lot of Londoners don’t know Honor Oak) that’s a long way to go. Looks like it’s replacement in the post (assuming post turns up tomorrow) with time and effort wasted
I’m not sure but I think I’ve heard that macs have trouble with a particular kind of DVD – DVD-R or DVD+R, I can’t remember which. It might be a matter of using a different disk to burn.
The DVD may have been burned on a higher speed than your Mac DVD drive supports… The Superdrive can only read/write to certain speed disks (speed factor)if you try using some of the higher speed disks on the market, the Superdrive WONT accept them… Im not familiar with all the details at this moment, but this issue has come up numerous times on various forums. The later Superdrives (104)may have solved this problem. I stand to be corrected, though!
The first-generation Superdrive (Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-103) in my 733 is a very sensitive beast… I have some CDs that simply will NOT play in this drive, yet they play reliably in my stereo or Sony Diskman.
Macs can only burn to DVD- unless things have changed since I got mine.
I dont quite follow you here, Linda. Are you saying that you cant burn CDs, as well as DVDs?
Turns out the client (on his newish G5) splashed out on some new DVDs which support DVD + and DVD formats. These worked fine on his G5 which supports both but my little ol’ G4 only supports DVD . He has re-formatted for DVD only and they work on his G4. Fingers crossed it will work on mine – when it gets here.
Could be useful to know if you’re being supplied by someone with a G5!
Thanks for the advice everyone
PS If anyone has a G4 it takes ages to find out what you’re read/write speed capacity is. Mine a G4 silver 933 has a Pioneer 1.49, DVD-RW DVD-103 and writes up to 2x reads up to 4x.
The type of media you should use depends on its intended use and there is one thing to keep in mind: neither format is considered The Standard. The dominance of one format over the other will mainly be affected by how the market chooses to drive the formats. This situation is quite similar to the time the market was deciding between VHS and Beta almost two decades ago.
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