Posted by root on 10/14/05 08:10

AtomicBob <robert.westbrook@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> 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?
>

I'll tell you what I do under linux and you can, perhaps, adapt it
to what software you use.

With the 1600, the recorded material starts at offset 5376=0x1500 sectors.
That is, from the start of the disk, skip the first 5376 sectors and then
read the rest of the disk. With linux:
dd if=/dev/dvd of=rescuefile bs=2048 skip=5376

Then you can edit/recover the program material from the rescue file.

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