Have been looking (trying) at old CDs. I had made multiple copies & stored well. They are a few decades old. Put dozens of them in both PC & Apple computers to try to read them. Even bought a new CD drive.
No luck, all unreadable.
If you have any old writeable CDs, copy then to new media before it is too late. Hopefully!
dogbox said
08:07 PM Aug 17, 2023
there are places around that can transfer the information from one form of storage to another had a lot of tapes that i had transferred to CD's now the last tug i bought hasn't got a CD player had video cassettes transferred to DVDSs as well
depend on how important the information is.
Whenarewethere said
08:19 PM Aug 17, 2023
Fortunately nothing critical, mostly scans of film. More of an irrigation than anything.
Fortunately not too much on Agfa film, another archival disaster.
I read up that the dye used in the CDs bleeds to the next bits of data storage then the CD becomes unreadable.
Should have stuck with Magneto Optical which I was also using at the time. But probably difficult to get a drive these days.
Craig1 said
09:10 AM Aug 18, 2023
Early 2000's " solid state? " backup drives are also prone to failure.
Have been looking (trying) at old CDs. I had made multiple copies & stored well. They are a few decades old. Put dozens of them in both PC & Apple computers to try to read them. Even bought a new CD drive.
No luck, all unreadable.
If you have any old writeable CDs, copy then to new media before it is too late. Hopefully!
now the last tug i bought hasn't got a CD player
had video cassettes transferred to DVDSs as well
depend on how important the information is.
Fortunately nothing critical, mostly scans of film. More of an irrigation than anything.
Fortunately not too much on Agfa film, another archival disaster.
I read up that the dye used in the CDs bleeds to the next bits of data storage then the CD becomes unreadable.
Should have stuck with Magneto Optical which I was also using at the time. But probably difficult to get a drive these days.