spooky3 Â Â 10 #1 Posted October 23, 2010 Shorter version of post!!! Title was too short and on clicking back, all post was lost! Â Â DVD dye splits within only a couple (few) years... (Should use CD's but currently have none)... Â Should I write DVD's at slowest or fastest speed? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
swarfendor437   14 #2 Posted October 23, 2010 Lost on the essence of this but mainly:  1. Burning an .iso is probably best slowest to avoid corruption at point of burn such as GNU/Linux distros  2. Never use 'Overburn' - you'll kill your drive ahead of time.  3. Keep disc in case and avoid exposure to sunlight (just like CD's!)  swarfendor43 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
spooky3 Â Â 10 #3 Posted October 23, 2010 mmm, I follow all those guidelines... Only extra guideline (when discs not in wallet), leave shiny side up. (Was printed on an old Bob Dylan CD cover, and I virtually never get scratches!) Â But still some photo backup discs that were less than 2 years old have gone kaput... (I don't grow an iso for stuff like that, and I use K3B generally for burning) Â I haven't got around to trying dd yet to see if it's only the FAT that's been corrupted, or not. Â Â edit: Â Cheers Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
swarfendor437   14 #4 Posted October 24, 2010 Not sure if any good but just Googled and found this freeware:  http://www.snapfiles.com/get/uncopier.html  swarfendor43 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
spooky3 Â Â 10 #5 Posted October 24, 2010 mmm, can find loads of easy to use apps for Win, it's use of little forensic tools in *nix though, maybe there's an app screaming out there. All the underlying tools are there already, just a GUI required... Â Â Cheers Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
