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Coffee House => Coffee House Boards => CH / General => Topic started by: A4000_Mad on February 06, 2007, 05:10:08 PM
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Hi Guys n Gals,
Sorry but I have absolutely no idea where to start this unusual thread.
Anyway, I recorded the Federer V Roddick semi at the Australian Open using a Sony DVD Recorder / VCR Combi. The DVD-R was fully playable in its *unfinalised* condition as I watched the great match again to be sure it was recorded OK.
I then chose to finalise it so that it could be watched on other DVD players too (as you do)
The problem is that the finalising went wrong and the disc was ejected with the report "Cannot play or record to this disc" :boohoo: :boohoo: :boohoo:
The DVD Writer in my wifes laptop cannot recognise it and neither can the DVDrom/CD-RW Combi in my A4000.
Any way to get into it please? :-?
(If I can somehow get the VOB files out I can recreate another DVD using a program that I have.)
A4000 Mad
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you can try data retrieval programs like this (http://www.naltech.com/), maybe there's also a free one, but I don't know ...
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Also, try it in different drives/computers, etc. I have had a few recordable DVDs that one of my drives just spits out like it was a cardboard insert, but that played fine in my external writer.
They're even more temperamental than CDRs in my experience.
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@ countzero
Thanks, I downloaded and tried that but it wasn't able to help.
@ NoFastMem
Cheers, but I've tried it in all 3 of my DVD readers but they can't read it.
I have today returned the Sony RDR-VX420 that did this and exchanged it for a Sony RDR-HXD860. Anyone got an opinion of this one? I've lost a VCR as it was a Combi, but gained a 160GB HDD. At least from now on I'll be able to have another go at writing to a DVD-R if there should be such an error again :-)
I'd still like to get this match back if at all possible though.
Thanks,
A4000 Mad
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Hi,
I've had quite a bit of success with ISOBuster (http://www.isobuster.com/isobuster.php) - and have quite happily registered it too (the free version provides more limited functionality).
I've recovered stuff from previously unreadable CD-Rs, DVD-Rs, etc, including a friend's photos that were previously thought lost forever, and also some backups that hadn't been tested until it was too late.
As mentioned above, it's definitely worth trying with different equipment. My LG drives seem better able to read from flaky discs than my NEC ones, for instance.
As with any media, avoid cheap and nasty stuff! Verbatim DVDs seem to always score highly - and I now always use those for anything I wish to keep. Unfortunately, no optical or magnetic media is 100% reliable...
- Ali
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Hi A4000_Mad,
On a *nix box try this.
dd if=/dev/dvd of=~/brokendvd.iso bs=1k
mkdir ~/iso
sudo mount -o loop brokendvd.iso ~/iso
If all goes to plan the image will be mounted in the ¨iso¨ folder your home directory.
Just grab the VOBs from within that folder.
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Won't dd stop if it gets an I/O error? Or does it attempt to carry on reading regardless?
- Ali
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InTheSand wrote:
Won't dd stop if it gets an I/O error? Or does it attempt to carry on reading regardless?
- Ali
AFAIK only if there is a physical error on the disk.
It sounds to me like there is just a filesystem level error on this disc so dd should be ok ripping it.
Cross fingers. :-)
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CannonFodder wrote:
Hi A4000_Mad,
On a *nix box try this.
dd if=/dev/dvd of=~/brokendvd.iso bs=1k
mkdir ~/iso
sudo mount -o loop brokendvd.iso ~/iso
@ CannonFodder
Thanks, i've made it a bit bigger as my eyes could just about see it and my brain registered nothing.
dd if=/dev/dvd of=~/brokendvd.iso bs=1k
mkdir ~/iso
sudo mount -o loop brokendvd.iso ~/iso
I'm gonna kick myself but what is a "*nix box"? :-?
@ InTheSand
I'm downloading ISOBuster now to give that a go thanks.
A4000 Mad
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A4000_Mad wrote:
I'm gonna kick myself but what is a "*nix box"? :-?
Anything running a UNIX-like operating system, such as Linux, OpenBSD, etc.
"dd" is a basic UNIX command that does direct dumps (e.g. direct copies) between devices and/or files.
- Ali
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Ok thanks,
I've only ever used AmigaOS and Windows 98 to XP, so I won't be able to do any Linux or UNIX commands :-)
A4000 Mad
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CannonFodder:
Doesnt that assume the user has sudo access? I happen to know about it because some of the developers like to complain that it isnt set up on some of the test environments and that they dont have permission to fiddle with stuff.
Of course they shouldnt - otherwise the test environment is basically not an exact replica of the live system. Or so I like to remind them ;-)
Then when they complain even more I can slope off and get on with technical writing having remided them Im nothing to do with server admin :-P
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Doesnt that assume the user has sudo access?
Of course, but if one doesn´t have sudo access on the machine they are using it is for a very good reason! ;-)
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Yes - it isnt theirs!
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mel_zoom wrote:
Yes - it isnt theirs!
PM me if you want to know how to get round such restrictions. ;-)
Or just ask Karlos. :-)
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@CannonFodder
Shouldn't that really be directed at A4K? He's the one that needs sudo access to a *nix box to follow your advice ;-)
Mel uses a certain nameless bloatware OS at work, the latest version of which is known to install successfully on shredders.
The closest she's getting to *nix at work will be an OSX laptop ;-)
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Karlos wrote:
@CannonFodder
Shouldn't that really be directed at A4K? He's the one that needs sudo access to a *nix box to follow your advice ;-)
If he hasn´t got root access to his own personal machine, then that is worrying. ;-)
@A4K
You can get dd for windows I believe, the usage should be pretty similar.
Or you could download a Linux LiveCD (http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/austrumi/austrumi-1.3.1.iso) than copies to ram.
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@CannonFodder
He didn't say he had a unix box. Therefore it's unlikey he has root access to it - any unix box he does have access to is going to be somebody elses.
Even if he did have one of his own, you don't have to create a sudoers list :-D
Just don't forget your root password!
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(http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o164/Cyberstorm604e/CHINESE.gif)
:lol:
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It reads...
"Dear world. Having been forced to endure a trip to Unixland in order to attempt a recovery of a dud DVD, I have been pushed beyond my endurance and have decided to take my own life. And those of the people responsible. For unix. And FreeBSD. And Linux. Well, mostly theirs, I might leave mine alone..."
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:lol:
Anyway, ISOBuster is busy slooooooowwwly working away doing something with the DVD-R. But according to the UK weather forecast there will be 6" of snow on the ground before it has finished in the morning. Brrrrr!
A4000 Mad
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Karlos wrote:
@CannonFodder
He didn't say he had a unix box. Therefore it's unlikey he has root access to it - any unix box he does have access to is going to be somebody elses.
Even if he did have one of his own, you don't have to create a sudoers list :-D
Just don't forget your root password!
Not all *nixes have a root user. :-P
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Well, without a root user or sudoers list, your earlier advice could be a bit tricky to follow :-D
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Karlos wrote:
Well, without a root user or sudoers list, your earlier advice could be a bit tricky to follow :-D
No need for a root user account to have sudo access for all users.
See your fave OS as an example. ;-)
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Well I've been at it for hours (no not that :lol: )
ISOBuster 2.0 found this much before the 60GB HDD in the laptop ran out of space. Doh!
(http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o164/Cyberstorm604e/ISOBuster.jpg)
I then quickly deleted some of my precious music videos to free up some space, only for it to say something like "you need to be registered to extract" Doh! Doh! Doh! :boohoo:
G'night from the UK :sleep:
A4000 Mad
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WooHooooooooooo!!!!! Me is so happy :-D :-D :-D
Firstly I need to kiss Mel :knuddel: (no she wasn't of any help with my problem, but it was nice too see her in this thread and who wouldn't want to kiss her anyway :lol: )
My special thanks to CannonFodder and countzero. Also thanks to Karlos for just being around posting where no man has posted before :-)
As you can see I have managed to get all 4 VOB files from the corrupted DVD-R and Nero is currently creating a new Federer V Roddick DVD :-D
Did anyone watch Leona in The X Factor last year? Well I recorded all of her amazing live performances but the same Sony RDR-VX420 destroyed them too. Would anyone be mad enough to have kept those old discs and be able to use IsoBuster on them now? Yep! Little ol me :laughing:
Many thanks again to you all :cheers:
A4000 Mad
(http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o164/Cyberstorm604e/FedVRod.jpg)
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@A4k_mad
Don´t mention it. I don´t even like tennis. :lol:
It´s a bloody nancy boys game and anyone that likes it is a big jessie!
[/Revert to type] ;-)
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:lol: So I guess you kindly offered your help because I'm an Amigan that likes tennis :pint:
To be honest most tennis is just boring ping-pong to me as well. But Roger Federer is awesome and will prove to be the greatest player of all time. No-one knows for sure if Tyson would have beaten Ali. But we saw Federer beat the great Sampras at Wimbledon and "the keys were exchanged" as Sampras said himself.
Basically, I just like to see the best in the world doing there stuff. Whether it be Tiger Woods playing golf or England playing football :lol: :lol: :lol:
I'm not parting with my rescued DVD but one seller of the Federer V Roddick match is making a nice few quid www.ebay.co.uk item number 110088237973
A4000 Mad