Posted by Colon Terminus on 11/15/11 11:29

Uhm ... Bob;

I've had several DVD+RW discs wear out in as few as 12 erase/rewrite cycles.

"Bob" <spam@uce.gov> wrote in message
news:434ea3b6.76436328@news-server.houston.rr.com...
> 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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