Rob A
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|  URGENT Sony Hanycam Disc Error
I own a Sony Handycam DCR-DVD108.
I had 2 track meets recorded on it (one thurs, another saturday) and had viewed them a few times. After attempting to view them again tonight, I turned on the camera to get a "Movie Recording Disabled." error. I cannot view anything or record anything now. Does anyone know how I can fix this? I'm desperate, I CANNOT lose these videos.
I contacted sony and they couldn't help me because they said it was a disc error (all other discs work). They told me to contact DriveSavers as they recover lost data from DVDs. However, after contacting them they want to charge me $350 to recover data from a $3 1.4GB DVD-R. $350?! Are they crazy?
Does anyone know how I can fix this? Or atleast a cheaper solution? Please help!
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I'd see if you can try it in several PCs. Perhaps one can read the disk. Someone brought over a miniDVD handycam disk that had the same problem for me to try on my PCs last week. No luck though. I tried it in 3 drives. That's a risk with recording directly to DVD R.
I wonder if there is software out there that can extract the raw data to get past the bad parts? |
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Rob A
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| said by normat  :I'd see if you can try it in several PCs. Perhaps one can read the disk. Someone brought over a miniDVD handycam disk that had the same problem for me to try on my PCs last week. No luck though. I tried it in 3 drives. That's a risk with recording directly to DVD R. I wonder if there is software out there that can extract the raw data to get past the bad parts? Can you put a mini 1.4 dvd-r in a regular cd-rom drive? I wasn't aware of this.
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1 edit | said by Rob A : Can you put a mini 1.4 dvd-r in a regular cd-rom drive? I wasn't aware of this. Yes you can.
Directly in the center of the drive tray is a smaller diameter indentation, that accommodates the 1.4 GB disk.
EDIT: But, it won't play in a CD player. 
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Rob A
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| said by rusdi :said by Rob A : Can you put a mini 1.4 dvd-r in a regular cd-rom drive? I wasn't aware of this. Yes you can. Directly in the center of the drive tray is a smaller diameter indentation, that accommodates the 1.4 GB disk. EDIT: But, it won't play in a CD player. And regular PCs read them? Do I need a special software to read it?
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| No. A CD player, won't read a DVD. Different format, and media. You MUST have a DVD player for the PC to read anything from a DVD. No software, to my knowledge can do this from a CD player.
I recommend you buy an internal DVD player. They are cheap, and then you can play CDs, or DVDs.
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My DVD drives would read about 10% of the disk and then throw a read error. A DVD player was able to recover and continue playing after a glitch. It sounds like in your case the issue may be in a more critical area of the disk.
I wonder if there may be some sot of application or perhaps some way to read the raw data from a corrupted disk in Linux?
I lost some photos one time after a hard drive failure and the DVD backup I had couldn't be read back off the DVD disk. |
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Rob A
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I have 1 computer that has a dvd drive.
I tried inserting it, nothing happened. Is there a program I need to download to recover lost data?
edit - And for the record, this disc was not finalized before the error occured. |
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