Posted by Micro Henry on 11/04/29 11:32

Brian wrote:

> Thanks Henry for your feedback. It's good to learn about holding down
> the Standby/On button as I must have missed seeing it in the manual.
> I also used a lot of DVD-RW's to backup the hard drive as the drive as
> nearly full when it crashed.
>
> One thing you might be interested in....
> When adding videos to the copy list, there is a feature that allows
> you to join up videos that are in the copy list. This is useful if you
> collect short video clips of news items etc off TV and want to join
> them as one video.
> When the Pioneer DVD recorder has written the video chips to a DVD as
> one video the first character or each video clip is missing.
> The only advantage of having the first chapter missing was if you had
> a few frames of the program title at the start of the video clip as an
> chapter then it would copy the video clips and not include the titles.
> If you don't have any chapters in a video clip then the video clip is
> not copied. The only way around that is to create a fake chapter one
> or two frames from the start of the video clip that is to be joined to
> other video clips.
>
> Regards Brian
>

Last Friday I did what you did. I saved all 103 files, 78hrs of recording at
MN7 compression. The drive was full. I went out and bought 25 2X-DVD-RWs @
$2.00 a piece. I only used 17. But I planned on only getting 4 1hr files
per disc so 25 seemed like a safe number. MN7 gets 4-1/2 hrs per disc of
reasonable video quality. Because some of the files already had the adds
removed, many 1 hr shows were only 45 minutes. So I got up to 6 programs on
some of the dics.

It took 11hrs to get them all copied. Then I re-initiallized the HDD and
copied them all back. That took 5 hrs. But it was worth it. I am back to
where I was before it broke. Even though the max copy time per disc is 30
minutes for 4.7Gbytes, not all were full, and setup, handling, down time
consumed about 2hrs. So 9hrs copy time and 2 hours handling and labeling
time. Copying back took 15 minute per disc. So that's about 4-1/2hrs plus
30 minutes handling time. All in all it was a lot of time and work. But
this demonstrates that the HDD can be recovered as long as it has not
crashed, then you're SOL.

I also discovered a factory reset sequence that allows you to start fresh
like it came out of the box. Press Standby/On , Stop Play, and Stop Record
congruently, and the system immediately resets to factory defaults. On the
good side, this does NOT, delete any HDD files. You have to use ERASE ALL
command in the Navigation Menu to do that, if desired. To me that's a good
thing. No Accidental erasure. This also resets the disc naming labeler to
DISC1 for the first disc. I did reset my unit.

After all this work I am back in service again have not experienced any
addition problems. I hope this problem does not return. It ran just over
year trouble free.

Again thanks for your postings, they were helpful.

uH

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