DVDR won't play

[uofmtiger]

I hope I am asking this in the correct forum. I have a friend that owns a Panasonic DMR-E20 DVD Recorder. He already captured about five shows, when his electricity went out during a recording. Now he can no longer play the first five shows that he saved. I had him bring me the DVD, so I could try to open it with my computer. My DVDR and DVD drive on my computer cannot read the disc. I tried several programs to get it to open: DVDx, DVD decryptor, and a couple Dell applications. I had no success. Is all hope lost of getting these files back or is there a program that is really good at pulling data from a difficult DVD?

[tito13kfm]

I believe the disc needs to be finalized.. On my sony at work I can just put the disc back in and go into the menu and choose finalize disc.

Hope this helps.

[fritzi93]

You could try ISOBuster.

[uofmtiger]

I downloaded Isobuster and I was able to get a Track1.bin file. It is showing up as 2.5 MB. How do I get it to play. When I try to run it with Isobuster, I get a "PVD unreadable error". Any ideas?

[monzie]

I hope I am asking this in the correct forum. I have a friend that owns a Panasonic DMR-E20 DVD Recorder. He already captured about five shows, when his electricity went out during a recording. Now he can no longer play the first five shows that he saved. I had him bring me the DVD, so I could try to open it with my computer. My DVDR and DVD drive on my computer cannot read the disc. I tried several programs to get it to open: DVDx, DVD decryptor, and a couple Dell applications. I had no success. Is all hope lost of getting these files back or is there a program that is really good at pulling data from a difficult DVD?

Just out of curiosity......does your pc's DVD drive read DVD-RAM (a la LG 4040B or a few others)?

[uofmtiger]

does your pc's DVD drive read DVD-RAM (a la LG 4040B or a few others)?

I don't think so it is a NEC DVD+RW ND 1100a that I got with my Dell computer. Would that make a difference? The DVD that he used was a DVD-R. I also have a HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8162B on the computer, but I don't think it plays DVD-RAM either. But I am not positive.