I had similar experience a few years ago when I transferred by archives
from CD's / DVD's. In my case the CD's were more of a problem though
some of the DVD's did not read either.
I'd second the idea of trying different drives. I used a laptop and two
desktops and found that often one drive of the three would work with a
problem disc.
Otherwise I used an old shareware version of the program ISO Buster
which worked in several situations. It was very slow though. I sometimes
started it overnight and it would not finish till sometime the next day.
I lost a few discs of old stuff. Not really a problem - while I was
doing this my cat pushed a spindle of CD's off the desk onto the floor,
causing a dozen or so to physically crack. I lost more data to feline
puckishness than to bad disks.
Good luck -
Mark
On 2/2/2017 6:32 PM, David J Brooks wrote:
Way back when i stored my picture files on CD's or DVD's. When i
replaced my aging PC with the current iMac i took the old HD out
bought a case and pulled files from it when needed. This drive is now
failing so i decided to put all of my CD's and DVD's on my new 1TB
external. I did the CD's first and all is going well however now that
i'm onto my DVD's all is not well in Casa Del Brooksie. I keep getting
" you have inserted a blank DVD what do you want to "???? and i get 3
options non of which is to open files. these are definitely recorded
DVD's.
Am i screwed.??
Dave
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