Trouble with DVD-R recovery discs

Hello, It's only now that I saw that DVD+R is suggested for burning the recovery disc set. A bit too late for me, since I bought several DVD-R to produce my set. Here's what happened: Each disc was created with difficulty; the burning process failed on every other try. But in the end, I finally got the 4 DVD-R's that the program said were burned and verified correctly. Now, when I tried inserting each disc to make sure the notebook was able to read them correctly (the contents were supposedly verified, after all), to my horror I saw that the first two discs were not being recognized. However, my patience was rewarded when after a long time, suddenly an Explorer window pops up showing the contents of the disc. Taking advantage of the situation, I immediately copied these contents in a folder in the desktop. It took me long to do this process for the contents of the first two discs that were having trouble being recognized. Later on I also copied the contents of discs 3 and 4, which was a lot quicker. Now, I have four folders in the desktop with the contents of the corresponding recovery discs. The question is: could I use these contents and burn them onto DVD+R's this time, so as to have a working set of recovery discs? Thank you very much.
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Hi @anthony_s
Thank you for your query.
I understand that you created your recovery disk on the incorrect type of DVD and the do not work. You have copied the contents to folders on you desktop and would like to know if you can now create new recovery DVDs on the correct type from the folders.
No that will not work. I suggest you contact HP support and advise them of the events and inquire about obtaining a recovery kit.
Please call our technical support at 800 474 6836. If you live outside the US/Canada Region, please click the link below to get a support number for your region.
World Wide Phone Support
I found this link on the HP forum you may want to read, I am not sure if it will work or not. Please let me know if it is successful.
This is how to make a 2nd set of recovery disks.
Best of Luck!
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I work on behalf of HP
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