amethyst_koneko

Well, right now, it's just this one. I tried another disc and it worked OK. The disc doesn't look damaged or anything either. I just don't know why it won't open. :(

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There may have been something wrong with the disk to begin with. Or it didn't burn right. Did you try opening it right after you burned it?

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No, it never occured to me to do that. If it didn't burn right is there no hope of opening it now? Damn, I'm kinda screwed now if that's the case. :(

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If it didn't burn correctly or there was an error with the disk, which is possible as we've gotten almost an entire thing of cds and chucked them due to them not writing correctly because their was something wrong with them. I really don't know of a way, or if it's possible to recover anything off of it. I hope in your case that it isn't an error and that you'll be able to open it. I guess you'll have to re download your stuff if possible if you can't get it to work, which I hope you are able too. If not, I'm sorry. -_-;

Have you tried rebooting your computer? Sometimes computers act weird and you need to reboot. I thought I lost everything on as well as the jump drive itself when my computer wouldn't read it, but when I rebooted the computer it read the device fine. Try that if you haven't already.

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Yeah, I tried rebooting hoping that would fix it, it didn't. damnit! I was hoping there was an easy fix! Just my luck, a bad disc. :P Some of the stuff on the disc is still on my hard drive but the rest, oh well. What's gone is gone. :( I don't even remember what was on that disc to begin with. I know I had some scanlations on there but that's about it. This is so NOT how I wanted to end my weekend. >.

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Sorry to hear that but I know how it is. I've lost tons of videos and files from the same thing so I try to check them but i can't check every individual file on mine so I just have to trust that they burned okay and that's not always the case. T_T Though loosing eight gbs worth of amvs and fma brotherhood episodes off my computer because it decides to just disappear and I know i didn't delete it, isn't fun. Had to redownload everything and you know how youtube is recently with amvs. D: So I know what it's like. Hope your day doesn't continue on this path.

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Hm. Like wateria says, there may have been an issue with the disc to begin with.

The only other thing I can think of, in my extremely limited knowledge, is that if you changed or updated the program you're trying to use to open it, that might have made a difference. There are a few CD-Rs with AMVs that I had made from awhile back that I can no longer play on my current version of Media player; I only get sound. And since I'm too lazy to try and download codecs and all that bullshit, I just don't bother with it.

Just a thought.

I hope you can get it to work. :(

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Yeah, it's looking like it was a bad disc to begin with, damn it all. :P I haven't updated or changed any programs in like forever so that's not it. This just sucks. >.

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Have you tried just going to "my computer" and then going into your cd that way? Sometimes my stuff doesn't open with autoplay so I have to go through "my computer" to access my jumpdrives and cds.

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Yeah I did. Same thing happened - lots of whirring but no files showing up. I checked the properties of the disc and it says there is definitely something on the disc; it just won't read it. I don't know what to do. :(

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When you say "no files showed up", what exactly happened? When you went into My Computer, did the name of your disk come up where it says "D:" or whatever your CD-ROM drive is? When you clicked [D:] was it blank? Did it register as a blank disk, in other words, or as no disk at all? Have you tried putting it into another computer?

Did you try resetting your computer? Have you checked your Device Manager to make sure the CD-ROM drive is working properly? (Right click My Computer to open System Properties; Click the Hardware tab; Click Device Manager; Look for yellow question marks).

If it turns out that the disk has been damaged, there are programs that you can use to recover lost data. Here is one that is freeware:

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/pcinspector.html

Good luck...!

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Here's another free one I found that's apparently really easy to use: http://www.fileguru.com/CD-Recovery/info

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Well, I put the disc in the disc drive and it whirred around for a bit but that's all that happened - no Autoplay, no asking for what program to open the disc with, nothing. The drive whirred for that little bit then quit. I check My Computer and the name of the disc did not show up but the colored bar under the (D:) icon showed there was space used on the disc with space still available on the disc. I clicked on the (D:) icon and it opened a blank screen with "Drag files to this folder to add them to the disc" at the top of the page. How can it be blank if there is space used on the disc? I may have a bad disc. :(

I don't have an option for System Properties when I right click on My Computer. I have Vista. Is it called something else maybe?

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Hold down the Windows button and hit Pause/Break; that should bring up System Properties. It does sound like it's unable to read the disk. I hate to say this, but Vista has known problems with disk reading. If you google "Vista not reading CD" you'll see a whole bunch of tech posts about it. But if you tried another disk and it worked, it may be that the disk is faulty. Did you try wiping it with a clean, dry cloth? That might help.

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huh. I wondered what all these extra keys on the keyboard were for! :) Disc Manager says the software for my drive is current and up to date so I guess that means the disc is bad since I tried another disc and it worked just fine. damn. No need to clean the thing if it's bad to begin with. :P

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Sometimes it can't read the disk because it's dirty or scratched. That's why using a cloth sometimes helps. But it is an off chance. You'll probably have to try one of those recovery programs.

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Also, here is the Microsoft support page on the issue:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/272094/

They also suggest checking it in DOS, which was my first inclination, but it's kinda Dork +20 so I didn't want to try to explain it. But they give step by step instructions on that page. There's also a link at the bottom to the previous support page for XP, which doesn't have the Vista commands but utilizes similar techniques.

Oh and I just noticed that all these posts got sent to wateria, too. Sorry...!

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The only thing I can think of that might work is going to My Computer, right clicking and choosing the Open option. The computer may be trying to autoplay when there are no autoplay files on it...

Otherwise it was probably a bad burn. These are more likely to happen at high burn speeds, so reducing the speed of the burn process can reduce the number of faulty discs.

If something was wrong with the manufacture of the disc, then there's nothing to be done.

In the future always check that the disc is readable after burning (something I learned the hard way years ago).

Also, if you have a different drive on another computer to try it'd worth a shot to try that just in case there's something going on with your drive.

Good luck!

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