Posted by Bob on 10/13/05 18:13

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:47:10 -0400, "BigJIm" <woody10277@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>you cant keep using the rw over and over it will wear out

Just what you would expect to read from a hotmail top-poster.

Don't listen to him. You can erase a DVD +RW a thousand times.

You will wear the DVDR out before you wear out 5 DVD +RW discs.


>"AtomicBob" <robert.westbrook@gmail.com> wrote in message
>news:1129207795.701253.316720@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>>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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