Posted by Mike S. on 11/08/06 02:19

In article <QNSdnVzV_dXFpczYnZ2dnUVZ_oGdnZ2d@adelphia.com>,
DK1000 <bwana1SPAMMENOTREMOVE@lycos.com> wrote:
>Have a Cyberhome 1600, will no longer format dvd's, stops at 98%. Any way to
>format the DVD's on a PC to use on the Cyberhome? (Both DVD+R and DVD+RW).
>Thanks much.

Have you tried opening the unit and cleaning the lens on the DVD drive?
It's pretty accessible inside the Cyberhome units.

I suspect the formatting operation lays down the directory structure and
alocates area for the temporary table of contents. Without knowing its
structure, it'd be difficult to duplicate that on a PC ... but if you did
have a Cyberhome-formatted disc with no data on it, you might be able to
duplicate that on a PC.

For what its worth ... if you haven't changed media to something of poorer
quality or not compatible Cyberhome's drive ... consistent failure to
format is likely to be a symptom of impending failure. Even of you feed it
a formatted disc, it'd be more likely that it would fail during recording
- or worse - during finalization.

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