Help with DVD recovery

Hi
New here, need help with a newly written DVD.
History:
In preparation for a C drive format, I copied "My Pictures" and "My Music" folders to DVD. After formatting, I copied the folders to my C drive. Found that "My Pictures" is an empty folder, and "My Music" has all the files (the icons anyway) but all files are 0 bytes.
The DVD properties shows that there is 4.11 gb written to the DVD, but I'm not able to access anything.
I don't really care about the music, but the pictures are very important to us.
Any suggestions appreciated.
Thanks

 

Anyone?

 

See if you get get a listing of files at the command prompt. Something should be taking up space on the DVD.

Try going to Start>Run in Open box Type cmd
at command prompt type G: ***Where G is the letter of your DVD drive***
Type dir /s > C:\DirDVD.txt
Exit

Back in Windows go to My Computer then the C: drive icon and double click the DirDVD file and see if you can find any files that look like they contain data.

 

Ok, did that.
It shows all my music, but not the pics.
Everything is also listed as 0 bytes.

Thx for the reply

 

After the format are you using the same DVD drive and burning software?

 

Yes.
I made sure I had all the software before I formatted.

 

What software did you use to copy the files originally?

 

Roxio creator classic.

 

Any more tips?
Thx

 

Sorry, I have had similar problems with data discs using other software. The only solution I had found was using the same OS the same drive and same software to read the disc. If opening Roxio and trying the add data to existing disc option still doesn't show the actual files, I don't know how to help