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Posted by AtomicBob on 10/13/05 13:02
I have a set-top DVD recorder (Cyberhome DVR-1600) that once in awhile,
when hitting stop at the end of a recording, fails to finish the file
and declares the disk (DVD+RW in this case) to be no good.
This happened to a TV episode I have wanted to capture for a long time
(stupid of me to not concurrently VCR it, I know). The 1600 recorded
the whole 2 hours (in a 3-hour quality mode), but when I hit Stop maybe
5 minutes after the show was over (I like some padding), the recorder
made some drive access noises and then declared the recroding a
failure. But when you look at the disc, you can "see" where the data
was written, and this makes me think that somehow, with the right
tools, the .VOB file might be somehow recoverable. When I put the disc
into my external DVD writer on the computer, it sees nothing, no matter
whether I hook it up to a windows or MacOS machine. But then I haven't
tried any particular file-recovery tools on it.
I'm not gonna erase the DVD+RW until I have exhausted all avenues.
Any ideas if this is possible, and if so, what's the best tool to use?
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