my DVD and HDD messed up

[goodguyswearblack9]

Last night while using my PC I restarted my computer and XP went into this scan mode where it was saying stuff about orphan files, etc.
After it was done, my external HDD's games and DVD collection where erased or mixed together ( I played a clip and it kept flipping between pieces of different films).

I didn't have anything pirated or illegal.
I used my drive as storage for games like COD4 and back ups of some DVDs I own.

Anyways, most of the media folders are okay like pics and stuff. At the same time, my Samsung Lightscribe DVD burner drive won't play DVDs right, but my regular and much older one will. The good drive gets all pixelated and choppy at certain parts of a movie, even when reading straight from the original disc.

I've always used DVD Shrink and DVD Fab, but now they both freeze or say that can't read a DVD. I've used both like 10 times, and never had a problem.

I'll watch those same parts with the older drive and it plays fine.

I'm trying to copy the Rockford files Season 1 Disc 1 which is a double sided disc. I'm not sure if that helps.

I'm frustrated and confused.

Any help would be appreciated.

[aedipuss]

is the external usb? sounds like something wasn't done writing to the drive when it was shut off. use a disc drive file checking utility to verify the drive. right click on it/properties/tools/error checking if you want to use the windows one.

[goodguyswearblack9]

I'm reinstalling my stuff and have another question. I've also got DVDFab and Shrink again. I'm guessing that my drives didn't like the Universal 2 sided disc. I put in "Blood Diamond" and it took with DVDFab the first time. Here's the deal though, neither Recode or Shrink will burn properly. I've posted the error from Recode so maybe someone could kindly explain it to me.

Project type: Main Movie to DVD
Target size: DVD5 (2282925)

01:30:47 File LangStreamPatcher.cpp, Line 56
Command table patching started...

01:30:47 File LangStreamPatcher.cpp, Line 133
All tables successfully patched!

Burn settings:
Target: TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S182M
Number of copies: 1
Write speed: 0 KB/s
Temp folder: H:\DVDburn (443270393856 bytes free)
Direct burning: false
Target media: DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD-RAM, DVD-R DL, DVD+R DL
Shutdown when finished: false
Advanced Analysis: true
Compress Adaptive: true

01:31:54 File burn_dvdfiles.cpp, Line 231
Compile DVD: init

VTS_01 Title Vobs [17179 vobus] 4463.83MB -> 3518.08MB [R 1.00]
Video: 2810.95MB, extra: 707.13MB
Audio: 4 streams
0. 0. Dolby Digital 5.1-ch English 469.96MB [enabled]
1. 1. Dolby Digital 5.1-ch French 469.96MB [disabled]
2. 2. Dolby Digital 5.1-ch Spanish 469.96MB [disabled]
3. 3. Dolby Digital 2-ch English 201.00MB [enabled]
Subpicture: 5 streams
0. 0. English 2.61MB [enabled]
1. 1. French 2.30MB [disabled]
2. 2. Spanish 2.84MB [disabled]
3. 3. French 0.34MB [disabled]
4. 4. Spanish 0.34MB [disabled]

01:31:54 File burn_dvdfiles.cpp, Line 1152
Compile DVD: begin copy 1

01:31:54 File NeroRecorderBase.cpp, Line 488
Writing to disc: DVD-R

01:31:54 File NeroRecorderBase.cpp, Line 502
Free capacity on disc: 2286468 sectors (2298496)

01:31:54 File burn_dvdfiles.cpp, Line 684
Compile DVD: begin deep analysis

01:33:31 File burn_dvdfiles.cpp, Line 381
Failed to read from the file * ^.

01:33:31 File burn_dvdfiles.cpp, Line 382
Compiling DVD volume failed

01:33:31 File burn_dvdfiles.cpp, Line 301
Compile DVD: exit

01:33:31 File burner.cpp, Line 961
Failed to read from the file Hޯ
Š.

I don't understand this technical stuff.

Thanks, I'm almost back to normal

[halsboss]

You have backups, right ? Everyone does. You have anti-virus and firewall ? If you're reinstalling over a broken Windows ... well, you can try. Cross-linked files ... badness ... just a likely to have stuffed your windows up too. Google it, it's worse than you think.

[goodguyswearblack9]

There wasn't alot of important stuff that I couldn't just reinstall on that drive. I'm just trying to figure out what that error means.

[aedipuss]

check in the folder you ripped the dvd to. there should only be vobs ifos and bups and all of them should have normal names. nothing should look like the "Hޯ
Š" that shows up in your error report. that looks like the files on the drive are wacky again.

[halsboss]

it was saying stuff about orphan files, etc

the error means your disk is stuffed up. google it. you'll be lucky if windoze works properly ever again if it's your system drive as there is potential for system files to be stuffed too.

There wasn't alot of important stuff that I couldn't just reinstall on that drive

feeling lucky are we ?

[goodguyswearblack9]

Thank for your help guys, No, it's not my C drive that's messed up. It's my second HDD (H) that is. I'm using it as storage for my own video editing, and storebought back up DVDs, that's it. Last night I got Blood Diamond to burn all the way through and it plays fine, but seems a little fuzzy compared to other DVDs I burned that looked 1:1 to the real thing. I'm not sure if it was because my that movie was Full Screen. Anyways I'll try a Widescreen movie next to see if it looks better. Btw, the drive and the burner are almost brand new, and weren't cheap.

[halsboss]

Lucky you, being your non-system drive ! Know what ? I'd format it if I were you and then run an XP's exhaustive check on it (file system and sectors) before committing other info to it. If necessary try to copy/backup your "critical" files 1st. Buy a cheapie external USB hard drive $50-$100 and copy stuff to that as backup 1st. Just a thought.