Jamie Kitson
December 5th 03, 01:27 AM
don't know why, but there are quite a few utils for
recovering data from cds, search http://download.com.com
Jamie
http://www.kitten-x.com
>-----Original Message-----
>I have been using Copy, in Windows Explorer, to backup
my
>documents to CD. For each backup I created a new
>directory on the CD (for example E:\2003Jun18) and
backed
>up the files into the directory. This has worked twice
on
>previous occasions.
>
>When I did the backup today, the previous two
directories
>vanished during the "write these files to CD" stage, and
>afterwards I could not Explore the CD at all.
>
>I tried again, using a fresh blank CD, and the copy was
>OK.
>
>It seems as though Explorer was not writing back the
>filing structure properly (is there a limited amount of
>space for this on the CD, or ...?).
>
>Any ideas, please
>.
>
recovering data from cds, search http://download.com.com
Jamie
http://www.kitten-x.com
>-----Original Message-----
>I have been using Copy, in Windows Explorer, to backup
my
>documents to CD. For each backup I created a new
>directory on the CD (for example E:\2003Jun18) and
backed
>up the files into the directory. This has worked twice
on
>previous occasions.
>
>When I did the backup today, the previous two
directories
>vanished during the "write these files to CD" stage, and
>afterwards I could not Explore the CD at all.
>
>I tried again, using a fresh blank CD, and the copy was
>OK.
>
>It seems as though Explorer was not writing back the
>filing structure properly (is there a limited amount of
>space for this on the CD, or ...?).
>
>Any ideas, please
>.
>