Vista - Lost Photographs

Hi,

I wonder if anyone can assist. I recently after some struggle managed to
upgrade from Win XP Pro to Win Vista Home Premium. Prior to the upgrade I
had stored several years worth of digital photos and short videos on DVDs. I
have been using Fuji cameras and these were stored using the supplied Fuji
Finepix software. I was totally panic striken when I loaded first one DVD and
then a second into my PC only to discover that according to the PC both DVDs
were blank. My panic receded when I reloaded both DVDs into my wife's PC,
running Win XP Pro and the photos and videos reappeared. I am running Nero
on both machines though that on my PC is the Vista version. I have checked
through other DVDs of photos and these open satisfactorily except for one
folder which is totally blank, but which heretofore did contain several
photos. These have gone completely on both systems. Can anybody offer a
solution so that I can get the photos back and usable with Vista? Sadly with
the installation problems I had I have used both my free Vista technical
support assistances.
--
JamesC

On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:31:02 -0700, JamesC
<JamesC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I wonder if anyone can assist. I recently after some struggle managed to
>upgrade from Win XP Pro to Win Vista Home Premium. Prior to the upgrade I
>had stored several years worth of digital photos and short videos on DVDs.

Using what method and what file format?

>I have been using Fuji cameras and these were stored using the supplied Fuji
>Finepix software.

Which really tells us nothing since only people that have a Fuji
camera would have THAT software. If it uses some propriety
type of file format that could be the issue in that it isn't supported
by Vista. Does this software work at all under Vista?

>I was totally panic striken when I loaded first one DVD and
>then a second into my PC only to discover that according to the PC both DVDs
>were blank. My panic receded when I reloaded both DVDs into my wife's PC,
>running Win XP Pro and the photos and videos reappeared. I am running Nero
>on both machines though that on my PC is the Vista version. I have checked
>through other DVDs of photos and these open satisfactorily except for one
>folder which is totally blank, but which heretofore did contain several
>photos. These have gone completely on both systems. Can anybody offer a
>solution so that I can get the photos back and usable with Vista? Sadly with
>the installation problems I had I have used both my free Vista technical
>support assistances.

> then a second into my PC only to discover that according to the PC both DVDs
> were blank. My panic receded when I reloaded both DVDs into my wife's PC,
> running Win XP Pro and the photos and videos reappeared. I am running Nero

Are the discs finalized?

"JamesC" <JamesC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3C7B0120-4343-41F6-ABDC-05CAB406F95B@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> I wonder if anyone can assist. I recently after some struggle managed to
> upgrade from Win XP Pro to Win Vista Home Premium. Prior to the upgrade I
> had stored several years worth of digital photos and short videos on DVDs.
> I
> have been using Fuji cameras and these were stored using the supplied Fuji
> Finepix software. I was totally panic striken when I loaded first one DVD
> and
> then a second into my PC only to discover that according to the PC both
> DVDs
> were blank. My panic receded when I reloaded both DVDs into my wife's PC,
> running Win XP Pro and the photos and videos reappeared. I am running
> Nero
> on both machines though that on my PC is the Vista version. I have
> checked
> through other DVDs of photos and these open satisfactorily except for one
> folder which is totally blank, but which heretofore did contain several
> photos. These have gone completely on both systems. Can anybody offer a
> solution so that I can get the photos back and usable with Vista? Sadly
> with
> the installation problems I had I have used both my free Vista technical
> support assistances.
> --
> JamesC


James,

Let me make sure I understand the issue: you have DVD's, which have picture
files on them, that you are trying to read in Vista. Vista cannot read them
all? or just some of them? If just some of them, what is the common, if any,
thread between the DVD's Vista -cannot- read... how they were burned?

Assuming the DVD drive has not changed between when XP was installed and the
PC was updated to Vista... (did you install a new DVD drive, iow...) have
you checked Device Manager to see whether there's a bang (exclamation point)
on your DVD drive or any other indications that it might not be working
properly?

Are your Vista PC and your wife's PC connected via a network, e.g., both
attached to a broadband router? If so, the quickest way to get the files
from DVD to your Vista PC -may- be to copy them from DVD to your wife's PC's
hard drive and then copy them over the network to your Vista PC. (This can
be done even if they're -not- networked, with no chance of networking, but
would involve purchasing a "cross-over" network cable and doing some manual
edits to the networking setups of both PC's.)

Lang