Durability DVD Media

[darrellw]

burned a number of dvd's 4/5 months ago( with loads of help of the forums, thanks folks) with a Matshita lfd310 burner, mainly Eproformance but also some Traxdata, and even the odd Infiniti and Ritek disc.
getting a 100% failure rate trying to rip same to my hard drive, using a Liteon LTD163D DVD-Rom.
tried another computer with the original burner in, getting similar results, 7/8 failures so far, all at different points on the disc.
only checked a couple on my standalone briefly, they do not play, cannot navigate to episodes.
only bought the Eproformance as they were voted 1st or was it second best budget disc on a web site, and they were not cheap at the time, the first lot were £1.80 each. if i had paid 60p a disc then, i could perhaps have expected some problems.
am really gutted, spent over a £100 on these discs, and countless hours of my time, ripping, transcoding, burning, splitting.

is this the normal expected lifespan of discs?
are these discs of "merchantable quality"?
what if i had used these recommended discs to back up valuable data that now could not be recovered?
what chance of i got of bouncing these discs back to the dealers involved?
:angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:
relly do need some help on this one
cheers
darrellw

[garryheather]

I think you might have been unlucky with the e-Proformance discs - I've used quite a few of those (at 69p each when they were available !) and so far, touch wood, they've all been fine.

BUT !!

I have had a few discs cr*p out on me in the past, and I strongly suggest you give ISObuster a try. It does some trick that appears to bypass Window's arsey error detection and can, if given time, recover the content from dodgy media. On the rare occasions I have had media go bad, this has on all but one occasion been a godsend.

Check out http://www.isobuster.com

Good luck !

[darrellw]

will try out your suggestion.
just out of interest when did you burn your Eproformance discs, where did you get them from, what code do they have in the centre.
what burner/software did you use
darrellw

[garryheather]

I don't have any on me at the moment so I'll have to get back to you on the code, but I got them from SVP Communications (AKA blankdiscshop.co.uk) some time ago - don't know when exactly, but we're probably talking late last year some time for the most recent lot. October / November, maybe ? I bought quite a few of them back then because I was very pleased with them which was probably a wise thing to do, I've had trouble finding them recently and I've gained comfort in my little private stash.

I'll see if I can lay my hands on one of my earliest e-Proformance discs at some point soon and post the code back here at a later date. I take it you're not fussed about the later codes since it's the longetivity of them that you're worried about.

I used (and have always used, without problems) Nero for writing on a Pioneer 04.

[spidey]

Also try a program called BadCopy Pro.

But I've found that it will work 80 % of the time when IsoBuster couldn't, but I've found due to many bad and useless Princo's, once a sector corrupts you're screwed. You may be able to get some of the vob's off and demux them to reconstruct some of your movie (use VobEdit or TMPG), but once it's done, it's done.

I only use Ritek's now.

[garryheather]

OK - here are some codes. I'm afraid I don't usually date my discs, but going by the revisions of some of the data on them these are pretty old:

2140J921 04068
2141K111 03961

I don't know if that proves anything or not, but these are still going strong.