Posted by Paul Hyett on 09/26/06 18:01

In rec.video.dvd.tech on Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Citizen Bob wrote :
>On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:15:08 +1200, "J Brockley"
><jbrockley@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>But I guess one possible issue is that a HDD recorder has no scandisk or way
>>of mapping out bad sectors so even a minor failure could failure. Looking
>>inside my Panasonic looks like a standard Samsung drive while my first
>>recorder has a Quantum drive.
>
>Won't the factory provide a utility to clean up their hard disks by
>taking the disk out of the DVDR and putting it in a Windows computer.

My Lite On has a defragmenter, but no equivalent of scandisc, or bad
sector mapping.
--
Paul 'Charts Fan' Hyett

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