[sherri29]

Hi everybody reading this...Got another problem (as usual). This one has to do with my photos and burning them to CD...

My pictures are opening fine on my computer...and I can rename them and put them in a folder I have made, and they still re-open just fine. ....then after I burn them to CD..( I use Nero and click on "Data CD" NOT Audio CD)..Everything goes fine...Then when I try to review the CD I made....some pics will open and others ....nothing...just a blank white page (Windows Picture and Fax * Viewer)...I have also burned other folders to this same CD (at the same time as the one in question) with other pictures opening just fine....Does anyone know why one whole folder with pics won't open, and the other folder on the same CD with pictures will open just fine?...when I rename them I give them a name, like: water.jpg, or thicket.jpg. or....etc, and etc. but it is one whole folder that won't open...not just on this CD either...it has happened before.

I didn't preview some pics before when I burned them to CD...just did "spot checks", and lost several pics that were in other folders, because after the spot checks, I deleted them off my computer...that is when I found out that I lost some, and no matter what I did, I couldn't get them to open...no matter what I clicked on, or what software I used to open them.

Thanks for any help offered
Sherri

[cwwozniak]

When looking in the problem folder on the CD, does Windows Explorer show the file sizes you are expecting to see for the picture files?

This is a bit of a long shot. When you renamed a file to something.jpg were you 100% sure that the filename extension was jpg before the change? Windows should have popped up a warning screen about changing the extension if you did try it.

Have you tried opening the files in any other programs?

Did you have Nero's burn options set to verify the disc contents after completing the burn?

[sherri29]

Hi Chuck...for question #1...the answer is yes...file size is what I was expecting, and what I wanted
#2. Yes, the pics were JPG from the "git go"..they were JPG., and I want to keep them as JPG.
#3 I have tried to open the pics in Photoshop CS2, Photo Impact 8, Paint Shop Pro X, Arc Soft Photo Studio 2000, and tried to open using the Ulead Instant Viewer.and.
#4...The burn options are as they have always been, and haven't had this problem with anything before....

I guess I can just chalk it up to "the unexplained"
Thanks for your reply...I guess I will just have to accept the fact that I have lost those pics.

Have a great Labor Day coming up.
sherri

[cwwozniak]

Hi Sherri,

Too bad you deleted the files after burning them to disc. Makes it difficult to determine if the originals were blanks or if there was some strange corruption during the burn.

FWiW, I always Keep Nero set to verify after burning. It adds a few minutes to the whole process but it gives me a good level of confidence that the contents of the disc match the originals.

Hope you have a good Labor Day as well.

[slipe]

Download Nero Speed. http://www.cdspeed2000.com/

The integrity check isn’t the full story. Some burner/media/speed combinations give very high error rates. You often find that a lower burning speed will give better error rates with some media/burner combinations. Often a speed around half of the full rated speed will give the lowest error rates.

I run Nero Speed with every batch of media. It isn’t necessary to run it with every burn, but it is a good idea to know whether the speed/media combination you are using is producing high error rates. And what speed to use for that media.

Compressed files are the most vulnerable to high error rates. Back in the bad old days when 2X was the latest and greatest and burning was an adventure I always included a JPG and ZIP file with each burn as a backup integrity check.

If Nero Speed is too geeky for your taste you could just buy some Taiyo Yuden CDs. They are all made to high standards by TY. All Sony and Fuji “Made in Japan” CDs are also made by TY. All Verbatim Data Life CDs and DVDs are made by Mitsubishi Chemicals to high standards as well. Verbatim uses Azo dye which is longer lasting than the Cyanine in TY, but some burners have problems with it at full speed. The best of the best are probably Mitsui Gold, but they are pricey and you might not plan to still be around at the end of their 120 year advertised life.

Another alternative might be to try burning your current media at around 24X to see if it gives more reliable results.

[hewee]

I always burn at a slower speed and only as a data cd. I also have it check the cd for errors after the burn. Takes up more time but I like knowing all checks out ok.

CDCheck is another install version or standalone zip program you can just unzip to it's own folder and run.
Even used it to scan the C:\WIN98 folder that has all the cab files because 3 of them was bad and I replaced them with a good copy off another windows cd.
http://www.kvipu.com/CDCheck/
It will tell you it is good for 30 days but you can keep using it.
(Donationware) (Registerware) (free for personal use/ non-commercial use)
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/200...ES.php#0108-PW

[slipe]

CDCheck should be used every burn if your burning software doesn’t have an integrity check. It does about the same thing as the integrity check. It isn’t a substitute for learning the actual error rate though. It only checks that the error correction can overcome the errors and give a readable CD. The higher that basic error rate the sooner the disk is likely to become unreadable regardless of whether it passes an integrity check.

[hewee]

Thanks slipe on the added info on CDCheck. I have ever run a check on the cd before it does any burning and after the burn with the old NTI burning software that is like 5 plus years old.
Time I get something newer to use but it works and is easy to use even if it is slow.
Never had a bad burn yet.

[slipe]

Never had a bad burn yet.

Stick with what works. I had the same good results with the old Prassi software but had to switch to Nero when they stopped updating Prassi. I grabbed Prassi ONES as soon as it was released and am a happy camper again.

[hewee]

Yea I will stay with what works. I know I can get some CD's DVD's that burn at faster speeds and I can change the burning speed but hey all works great as it is so not going to push the limits to see what I can get.
When I had this PC and seen the NTI I went what the ???? did that guy put on here because I never heard of it before. Web links in the program were no good and then I found by doing a search there site in Hong Kong and said oh great.
But they were new and now you do see there software around and they have great rating.
If with the rating good they say the burn speed is slower.
It does not take over your PC like other like nero or others that has to load things into your startup that are not needed.
I mean really nothing should be loaded from your burning program till you start it on your own to use it.

[cwwozniak]

Originally Posted by hewee

... It does not take over your PC like other like nero or others that has to load things into your startup that are not needed.
I mean really nothing should be loaded from your burning program till you start it on your own to use it.

How does Nero take over a PC?

I have Nero 6 installed on my computer running Windows XP Home. I am looking at Task Manager and I don't see anything that suggests any process or application from Ahead Software is running. As far as I can remember, I installed all of Nero's applications except for UDF packet writing. I can see where that Nero application might need to run at startup to hook into the OS.

The closest I have come to having Nero take over anything was when I re-installed it and the CD burning function in Apple iTunes stopped working. However, the only reason I was re-installing Neor was that the iTunes installation broke Nero's burning function.

[slipe]

How does Nero take over a PC?

It doesn’t if you don’t install the packet writing component. But the packet writing component (InCD) is quite intrusive.

[hewee]

Like slipe said I guess is what got installed.