Storage Solutions Powerfailure: Disc Writing Operation kaput ??

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Spacescreamer

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Hey Guys..

Well, summers are here and also the unrelenting powercuts.

I was burning an image file for myself on my cherished TY disc and writing process was abt 80% done, with abt a minute and a half left for completion.

when Powerfailure struck.

UPS kicks in and dutifully performed its task and allowed for the burning process to be completed.

There was this slight fluctuation (the general one for the comp wen ups substitutes as the power source and which generally screws ur Disc writing operations :@ )

Cant really do too mch with the powercuts now can u. :chair:

i waited for the burning process to complete, ejected the DVD and powered the system down.

My dilemma is that i dont know whether this DVD has been burnt properly or not..??

Tried to copy the contents onto the hdd... which was accomplished, but i am still not sure regarding the DVDs content and i dont intend to install the games in the near future because of workload.

Any way to determine whether the DVD got written properly or not ..?

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The DVD was The Orange Box DVD 2, (i dun think this autoruns, and hence my confusion stays)

The DVD 1 has been written and is working the way it shd have been.
 
Nero - The toolkit - CD DVD Speed utility - This has a scandisk option which can scan a cd/ dvd and show you the exact damaged files.

To avoid this in the future, use the 'verify on write option' when you burn discs.
 
^^ i got so many similar dic write failures during power outages!
Now,when u have to urgently shutdown ur PC after burn process is completed during the power outage, is there any chances of data/disc/write verification time left?..my common sense doesn't assume so..
using the PC during Indian summers is a risky/lossy business....Many things happen!
 
Then extend you UPS backup, I keep 6 Hrs... Thats the powercut duration possible here
 
^^ More than that, the need is to get those specific UPS which dont allow that 'gap' in the data stream's flow of data to the writing laser.

I forgot the technical term used for those UPS, maybe some other member mite chip in with that.
 
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