Posted by Bill Vermillion on 10/13/05 20:55

In article <1129207795.701253.316720@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
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.

>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?

I read the entire thread and no one gave you the answer on how to
fix it.

I've had similar problems, including such things as a power failure
when the disk was writing.

I use ISO-Buster to recover. I liked what the limited version did
so well I bought the $29 upgrade.

It's saved me a lot of hours.

Bill

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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com

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