Help!!! I lost our database!

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I would look after that CD you've got and really
thoroughly test it with every expert you can find. The
following experience shows why.

I bought a brand new Dell system last year with a combo
DVD/CD burner.

Whenever I put a commercially created CD (from a software
vendor) into the burner, windows comes up with the
contents on the CD. This works really well everytime.

But when I use a blank CD that's subsequently formatted
using INCD software (so it will work like a floppy disk)
and put some files onto it using another system (LG
Burner), the Windows Explorer on the Dell machine comes up
with a blank CD! Now, if I open and close the tray several
times, eventually the Dell burner reads and displays the
contents. Why would it work perfectly with a commercial CD
that comes from, say Microsoft or other vendor, but not
work properly with my own CDs?

BTW, does anyone know where I can find info on how these
burners work? Is it something to do with industry or IEEE
standards?


Thanks

Adam
-----Original Message-----
We are a medical clinic that uses Access 97 (yes I know -
Click to expand...
very prehistoric) to store our patient information with
over 2000 listings. Something happened with a staff
member yesterday where a revised list of 300 listings was
saved over our existing database. We had a back up
version on CD Rom. When I tried to open it I got the
error message "Disk I/O error during read". I was hoping
that there would be another copy somewhere on our
computer. Can anybody help us?!?!?!?
 
There's some organization out there that sets the standards for
the CD Burners. I found it once by doing a search on Google.

I posted an article in the VB newsgroup which you can find by
doing a search for:

"Jim Carlock" cd standards

Search in the google groups and only one article should turn up.

I'll repost the links I found when writing the information:

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev/tech/stream/dvd/default.mspx
http://www.mpeg.org/MPEG/DVD/
ftp://ftp.t10.org/t10/document.00/00-361r0.pdf

I hope that helps in your search for information about DVD/CD
drive specifications. There's some Mount Fuji standard that's
typically brought up, so that might be a good thing to search
for as well.

--
Jim Carlock
http://www.microcosmotalk.com/
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I would look after that CD you've got and really
thoroughly test it with every expert you can find. The
following experience shows why.

I bought a brand new Dell system last year with a combo
DVD/CD burner.

Whenever I put a commercially created CD (from a software
vendor) into the burner, windows comes up with the
contents on the CD. This works really well everytime.

But when I use a blank CD that's subsequently formatted
using INCD software (so it will work like a floppy disk)
and put some files onto it using another system (LG
Burner), the Windows Explorer on the Dell machine comes up
with a blank CD! Now, if I open and close the tray several
times, eventually the Dell burner reads and displays the
contents. Why would it work perfectly with a commercial CD
that comes from, say Microsoft or other vendor, but not
work properly with my own CDs?

BTW, does anyone know where I can find info on how these
burners work? Is it something to do with industry or IEEE
standards?


Thanks

Adam
-----Original Message-----
We are a medical clinic that uses Access 97 (yes I know -
Click to expand...
very prehistoric) to store our patient information with
over 2000 listings. Something happened with a staff
member yesterday where a revised list of 300 listings was
saved over our existing database. We had a back up
version on CD Rom. When I tried to open it I got the
error message "Disk I/O error during read". I was hoping
that there would be another copy somewhere on our
computer. Can anybody help us?!?!?!?
 
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