>From the old times: one floppy is not a floppy...

Recently just bended a DVD -- I can;t remember of what reason -- and the two
layer of plastic come off! I think it is less protective to physical attacks
than CD. So yes, do copy to more than one media, store them separately -- I
think some software could handle many writers at a time, so you do not have
to spend more time on doing that.

Tamas


On 15/09/06, William Couture <bcouture@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/15/06, Renzo <renzogiu@libero.it> wrote:
> > I have a problem with an archive DVD.
> >
> > Month ago I saved many my archives containing zip, pdf etc. files in a
> DVD.
> > Now I can see only one file Trach01.cda but it is empty.
> >
> > My OS is Win98 and the CD burner is a LG GSA-4160B
> >
> > There is any way for recover the files?
>
> I don't know about recovering files, but I've found over the years
> that media is cheap compared to lost files/time.  Burning a 2nd
> and even 3rd copy and storing them in separate places is cheap
> insurance.
>
> Bill
>
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