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HP DVD+R in HPdvd200i LOSS OF ALL DATA :(
Hi. I had my disc in the E drive while I ran a scandisk on my hard
drive. Now my CD-R shows no data on it when it should have 4.5 gigs on it. It shows as having 0 bytes available and 0 bytes used. Any ideas on anything I can do to retreive the data. |
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"Vic G Kall" wrote in message
... Hi. I had my disc in the E drive while I ran a scandisk on my hard drive. Now my CD-R shows no data on it when it should have 4.5 gigs on it. It shows as having 0 bytes available and 0 bytes used. Any ideas on anything I can do to retreive the data. Running scandisk shouldn't have caused that problem. I assume that instead of "CD-R" you mean "DVD+R" since if you burned 4.5GB to CD-R, that's a real good reason why it is lost (that of course being that a CD holds 0.683GB [700MB]). Regardless, I've had this happen, it is usually after burning it, but I just eject and insert the disc again, and it should find it. If not, try rebooting and see what good that does. Also, IDK how you managed to fit "4.5Gig" on a DVD+R, its limit is 4.38GB, not 4.7GB. If you have put 4.5Gig of stuff on it, out of 4.7Gig, then you really have 4.19GB on there. If you're completly confused as to why there are two GB measurements, just realize it is marketing to call it 4.7GB. A true GB = 2^30 bytes, while the DVD GB is 10^9 bytes. Since you have 4.7 DVD GB, then you have 4.7x10^9 bytes, which is 4,700,000,000 bytes. Dividing that by the true GB of 2^30 bytes/GB, then you find out you have 4.38 true GB. To further confuse you, if CDs used this same method of false advertising, then we would commonly have 736MB CDs out there. The 74 min CD would hold 681MB not 650MB. This false advertising is also used in computer hard drives. Ever wonder why you bought it with, say, a 120GB drive, but its only 113GB or so? Its the same, just do 120 * 10^9 / 2^30. I sure hope you know the "^" symbol means raised to a power of... |
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