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Posted by BigJIm on 10/13/05 16:47
you cant keep using the rw over and over it will wear out
"AtomicBob" <robert.westbrook@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>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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