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[MarkvdPol]

Hi,
If a burn gets interruped due to a program crash, is there a way for any part of the suite to pick up the pieces and complete the burn? Or if not complete, could the unused portion of the disc be re-used? In one case, my project took 2 Gigs, it failed towards the end, but there is enough room on the disc to burn the entire project again. If only there is some way to get the app to accept this partial burned disc.

Or if this is not possible with Roxio stuff, is there any program out there that can do this?

Regards, Mark.

[Beerman]

MarkvdPol, on Nov 17 2006, 02:30 PM, said:

Hi,
If a burn gets interruped due to a program crash, is there a way for any part of the suite to pick up the pieces and complete the burn? Or if not complete, could the unused portion of the disc be re-used? In one case, my project took 2 Gigs, it failed towards the end, but there is enough room on the disc to burn the entire project again. If only there is some way to get the app to accept this partial burned disc.

Or if this is not possible with Roxio stuff, is there any program out there that can do this?

Regards, Mark.

I'm not aware that this is possible at all.  If it were, I would not trust the possibility of a quality loss.  I'm quite sure that a crash would corrupt much of what was being encoded at the time.  This never even entered my mind.

[MarkvdPol]

Beerman, on Nov 17 2006, 12:32 PM, said:

I'm not aware that this is possible at all.  If it were, I would not trust the possibility of a quality loss.  I'm quite sure that a crash would corrupt much of what was being encoded at the time.  This never even entered my mind.

The burn was of an ISO image, so the content is 'safe'. There was no encoding going on, just a data transfer.

It would seem to me that the sector being burned at the time of the crash would have to be re-done, and perhaps a bunch before just to be safe. But it should be possible to detirmine where in the ISO this is, and to resume from there.

Mark.

[james_hardin]

If the disc is still 'Appendable' you can sure try it.

Classic - New Project, load the disc and if it allows you to Import previous sessions you are good to go. I would create a folder (Good?) and put the new files in that folder.

However you now have a "backup" on a disc that has failed on you once.

Is that something you really want to risk for $1.00 price of a disc? If it were mine, that disc would be living in a dumpster!

[MarkvdPol]

james_hardin, on Nov 18 2006, 05:20 AM, said:

If the disc is still 'Appendable' you can sure try it.

Classic - New Project, load the disc and if it allows you to Import previous sessions you are good to go. I would create a folder (Good?) and put the new files in that folder.

However you now have a "backup" on a disc that has failed on you once.

Is that something you really want to risk for $1.00 price of a disc? If it were mine, that disc would be living in a dumpster!

Well, yes, if it was a single disc - but I was burning 8 and the hiccough happened. Plus, I had previously burned the lightscribe side, so each disc already had considerable time invested. And the discs didn't fail - the app did.

Anyhow, I tried the various options - some apps see that it is an incomplete session and offer the option to close it, and add stuff to the disc. But so far none succeed - that is, the disc is accessed and shortly thereafter I get an error. So close...

Perhaps I should get an archival version of older software, you know, back from the days when DVD recordable discs were $25 each. I am sure that that software had all sorts of recovery options to recue the disc if a burn was interrupted.
Mark.

[grandpabruce]

MarkvdPol, on Dec 4 2006, 01:12 PM, said:

Well, yes, if it was a single disc - but I was burning 8 and the hiccough happened. Plus, I had previously burned the lightscribe side, so each disc already had considerable time invested. And the discs didn't fail - the app did.

Anyhow, I tried the various options - some apps see that it is an incomplete session and offer the option to close it, and add stuff to the disc. But so far none succeed - that is, the disc is accessed and shortly thereafter I get an error. So close...

Perhaps I should get an archival version of older software, you know, back from the days when DVD recordable discs were $25 each. I am sure that that software had all sorts of recovery options to recue the disc if a burn was interrupted.
Mark.

Nope.  Back when they were $25, you lost $25.

[james_hardin]

As it was a set, you may be out of luck!

You may be able to use Disc and Device Utility to close the session but not finalize the disc.

It doesn't always work, I destroyed a $5.00 DL disc this weekend that would not respond. Have another DL that is session writable, but closing set it to ISO9660 (8.3 filenames)…

And GPB was right, there was even less available to help with, when DVD's were $25!