XP CD Burner corrupted my JPG and MPG files?

Hi, I hope a bright spark out there can shed some light on this big
problem I'm having.

I was planning to back-up some photos to CD. Basically I dragged
several picture folders from "my pictures" to the appropriate folder
for burning using the inbuilt XP burning facility. When I realised
there was too much data for the CD capacity, I removed one of the
subfolders from the burning folder. If my memory serves me correctly I
received a burning error at the conclusion of the process, but the data
on the CD seemed ok afterwards. However afterwards the original data in
the "My Pictures" folder on my PC will not open. I get a red X when
trying to open JPGs and quicktime / media player returns the message
that my movie files are not valid. I have good copies of the files that
was burnt to the CD, but the existing subfolder that I removed from the
burning folder (as the data was too large for the CD) cannot be opened
on my PC and is not backed up.

I have tried Infranview etc, with no luck. I have also tried the demo
of pixrecovery with no success.
I read somewhere that this could be a case of corrupted file
permissions due to the CD burning software in XP. This sounds more
likely than a straight corruption. The file data (size etc) has not
appeared to change.

I've become a victim of corruption during the process of backing up
(the thing I was trying to protect myself against by backing up in the
first place!)

Any help would be appreciated,

Cheers,

Eamonn.

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