Getting frustrated with Kodak Picture Disk...

Al B. Sure! · June 10, 2003, 16:10

I finally got the pictures from the prom developed and I figured i was being smart by getting a picture disk instead of getting doubles or possibly having to make more copies of some pictures in case people i photographed wanted copies and want not. I figured I'd just use the picture disk to make more copies.

But i can't get this thing to work. It loads up about half the pictures (upside down but it's alright) then says it can't read the rest of them. Apparently randomly (though I think me moving the mouse pointer over some pictures does it), some of these 'unreadable' pictures pop up but still a couple are not showing up.

Also, when i tried to save them as jpg's, most the jpgs were half pictures with the other half completely blank yet these same pictures are whole in the viewer.

Maybe I'm doing something horribly wrong. So what can I do?

thanks

DaShi · June 10, 2003, 16:11

Kodak won't develop pictures of pornographic acts.

Al B. Sure! · June 10, 2003, 16:19

come on... be serious...

Al B. Sure! · June 10, 2003, 16:43

I decided to close the viewer and re-start it, hoping that it would magically start working but now I can't access the program again. Everytime, I try to run it, i am told the program can not be found! It was just working two minutes ago!

and when i use windows explorer to look in A:\ i am asked if i want the disk to be formatted!

what the hell should i do?

thanks

Al B. Sure! · June 10, 2003, 17:03

has no one ever gotten a picture disk?

Al B. Sure! · June 10, 2003, 17:29

i dont get it... it was somewhat working but now the computer says it can't find the exe file... this makes no sense...

Al B. Sure! · June 10, 2003, 17:42

god damn... this internet is costing me 99 cents an hour! someone please come in here and explain what i should do to get this thing to work again... PLEASE!

Al B. Sure! · June 10, 2003, 19:14

up

Boris Godunov · June 10, 2003, 19:22

Hopefully you'll waste some of your precious time reading this thinking it's going to be helpful.

Geronimo · June 10, 2003, 21:22

I've found that all floppy disks are easily corrupted or damaged. what does running a thorough surface scan scandisk on the floppy tell you? Hopefully you can go back and get a replacement copy. Next time you recieve a floppy disk that has data you want the first thing you do should be to scan the disk and back up the data.

Giancarlo · June 10, 2003, 21:24

Or get a second or third copy.

Urban Ranger · June 10, 2003, 23:52

It's either the disc or the drive. So check the disc in another drive that's known to work. If that works, it's the drive. If that doesn't, it's most likely your disc, so go bug the vendor for a new one.

Asher · June 10, 2003, 23:53

Are you putting a CD-ROM into the floppy drive?

Also, make sure your disc is plugged in and your powersupply has enough moisture.

Giancarlo · June 10, 2003, 23:59

Originally posted by Asher
Are you putting a CD-ROM into the floppy drive?

No wonder why CDs are breaking!

FrustratedPoet · June 11, 2003, 05:03

I thought these picture disks were all CD's.

How can they fit a load of images on a 1.38MB floppy? The quality has got to suffer pretty badly with all that compression.

MikeH · June 11, 2003, 05:31

They are CDs.

FrustratedPoet · June 11, 2003, 05:46

But Albert says it's a floppy that he can't get working.
(insert impotence joke here)
(insert "you can't do any inserting if you have impotence" joke here)

MikeH · June 11, 2003, 05:57

On the Kodak picture disk ads on TV it's a CD.

FrustratedPoet · June 11, 2003, 06:00

I know .... which is why I was confused when Albert said it was a floppy. It seems implausible - thus Asher's joke in the other thread (probably on page 2 by now) about him trying to jam a CD into the floppy drive.

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=88829

MikeH · June 11, 2003, 06:07

Ah, Ok. Often I just go into a thread and read the last post and respond to that.

Al B. Sure! · June 11, 2003, 15:20

it's a floppy disk... kodak still makes the floppies.

i'll run a scandisk and see what it says...

thanks

Al B. Sure! · June 11, 2003, 15:23

nope i cant even do a scandisk... it says...

"Scandisk can not check this drive because there is no disk in it, it is not formatted, or a disk utility has locked it. Insert a valid disk in the drive... and then restart Scandisk."

Help!

Al B. Sure! · June 11, 2003, 15:25

all i did was exist the program and tried to start it up again... nothing was done to the drive or the disk. this makes no sense... are these disks supposed to self-delete or something after a few uses?

monolith94 · June 11, 2003, 15:47

they gave you a floppy? How many? That's BIZARRE. Don't you have a cd-rom drive??? If you have a cd rom drive, take the thing back and ask for your pictures in CD form - it's what you deserve...

Al B. Sure! · June 11, 2003, 17:30

monolith:

one floppy... i went to the kodak site and they had a whole section talking about the floppy disks so it's a standard. not bizarre at all.

thanks

FrustratedPoet · June 11, 2003, 17:35

Out of interest ... how many pictures are on the floppy?

Cruddy · June 11, 2003, 18:05

I doubt if this will help you - but I'll try anyway.

Basically, I've got one photo-CD. When inserted into a drive it tries to auto-install the Kodak software to view the disk. As it's already installed this causes the setup routine to bug out.

After that, I can explore the disk as normal and get all the pictures off it. That's because they're stored on the disk in "almost" normal JPEG format, and nor the ultra compressed propreitary lossy junk they use for floppy.

I suggest you go back to the store with your disk and negatives (they did give you those, right?) and ask for a full refund because the disk is shot. If they can smugly read the floppy, they won't give you a refund - if they can't, they will. Hint, nudge, wink, say no more.

Then, before they give you the refund, ask for a CD instead - which is what you should have done in the first place.

Floppy disks might be cheaper - but magnetic media degrades a lot faster, so stick with CD. It's more stable.