Desperate!!!

[bazn8a]

Hi all,

Just need a little help if possible.

I bought a cyberhome dvdr-1600 about 12 months ago. It worked fine until recently when I tried to finalise a disk with my babies 1st birthday footage on when it all went wrong.

It came up disk error and would not play again. It will not play on any other player as it is not finalised.

I even searched the internet for another dvdr-1600 and found that they have been discontinued but I eventually found 1 in germany.

when I recieved this and tried to finalise the disk again, it wouldn't reconise it or any other I put in.

I sent this back and recieved another. This plays everything it should but not my disk with baby footage on.. just says unknown disk, Gutted!!!!

PLEASE, PLEASE does anybody know a way to get the data off this disk as I and my wife are desperate.

PS, Sorry about the long post

[yoda313]

try isobuster. It might do the trick.

[jman98]

bazn8a - Welcome to the forums. Do not apologize for your post. It wasn't very long. A common mistake newbies make, which includes you, is that you all seem to think that the less you say, the more likely you are to get help. You could not be more wrong. All the time (and it really gets old) we see posts from newbies like this -

My DVD won't play. What's wrong?

It's impossible to answer such a post with no information at all about what they did. In your case, you did give some details, but it might have been helpful to also have included the type of disc you used (DVD+RW, DVD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R) and the brand of disc. You may think that kind of info doesn't matter, but it does. For example, we might know that brand X makes crap discs that often fail and you might not have any idea that their discs are problematic. You should also note that re-writable DVD discs are more problematic than write once discs.

isobuster is a sound recommendation and probably your best hope of recovering something. Your data may be recoverable, but if you can't do it, you'll have to find someone with some strong PC and video skills to do the work for you.

[VD]

If it is a RW disc, do not format it on the computer if prompted.

IsoBuster would also be my first choice, but if it does not work the program ISOPuzzle 1.5 is a good free recovery tool to use if the disc is defective and has bad sectors.

There is a chance that after you copy the files to the computer, the dvd structure will be corrupt. You will need to reauthor the video in the VOB files.

[Marvingj]

I also have a 1600 Cyperhome, My works great even though everyone states it is garbage. But it has a great picture. Now back to the subject at hand. Isobuster will do the trick also Cd Roller is good.

[RabidDog]

Or go to a specialist data recovery firm .. very expensive but might be worth it.. Now repeat "I will backup my data" 1000 times

[Bjs]

http://www.kvipu.com/CDCheck/download.php , join forum to get free license .

As for recovery on local level , you would need to be able to access as many drives capable of reading dvd-rw media as possible ... if none are able to access the contents of the disc in question ... professional data recovery services might be able ... if not ... its toast .

Remember , if a drive can not access the disc , no software recovery tool will work , period .

Most of these units will say what type of media , and brand , is most suitable to use .

Mine , dvdrx250 wintal , states princo , and I wouldn't touch that junk even if they paid me to .

[LCSHG]

The Cyberhome 1600 is the exact same as the Wal-Mart ilo 05. The Cyberhome 1200 is really the same as the 1600 but while the electronics are there it does not have a DV port.
The remotes are the same for all.
The drive is not IDE and the format is non-standard.
I would take another +R disk and record on it, remove it and than replace it. record on it again and than finalize it
It it does, I should think the problem is operator error
If it doesn’t, or is operator error. It is likely the information on the disk, is lost

If the unit is not working correctly and can not be repaired for less than $30
Junk it

[bazn8a]

Thanks all,

ISOBuster did recognise the disk and I got 1gb of info off it but it was a TAO file and I don't know what to do with it.

anybody any ideas..

If not, How do I go about getting it professionally done in the uk.
Don't care if it's expensive as long as they can get some footage from it.

Thanks again.

[akrako1]

googling '.tao file' led me to various pages where people suggested renaming the file to a .iso, and then burning (or mounting with DaemonTools/PowerISO). Can't try it myself, but that seems to be the easiest thing to do. You can always rename it back if it doesn't work. You might need to have 'hide extensions of known file types' unchecked to be able to view/change the extension.

[RabidDog]

quote

If not, How do I go about getting it professionally done in the uk.
Don't care if it's expensive as long as they can get some footage from it.

Simply google for forensic disk recovery or data disk recovery or other likely sounding names. I would suggest that in reality only a few companies really do this sort of work many will simply advertise it and then pass the work on. maybe ask around in other forums and read the Ads in some of the mags.. it cant hurt to ask... Also the CIA, FBI and MI5 are really good at this type of work, so if you know any spooks who fancy a bit of cash in hand work? hang about down vauxhall waving your bent disk around??

[classfour]

R-Studio

[bazn8a]

I changed the file type to iso but when mounted it said it may be a corrupted file and couldn't read it...

What is r-studio??

[LCSHG]

TAO is [Track At Once] CD/DVD file
r-studio is a Data recovery tool

Disks recorded on my Liteon/ilo units are .vob files and can be handled by windows.
Such a disk will display on the PC as a DVD disk

A program recorded on the ilo 05 or cyberhome 1600 will most likely show up on a PC as a Audio CD [track one]. These files are not handled by windows, isobuster will open them, Power DVD will open and play them. So will another stand alone unit.

I do not know the format of the ilo 05 ala cyberhome 1600 as I only use it for play but it is non-standard.

You say you don’t care about cost.
An example
When in the computer business a Lawyer developed HDD problems. Fortunately he stopped and did not try to correct the problem.
The drive was sent to a data recovery service by airmail, They were able to fully recover almost 80% of the files, and about 15% on 80- 95% of the files, 5% was lost.
Fortunately the files that meant the most were fully recovered.
The cost Not counting special airmail [ which was some $375] was $565.

The key is
“Fortunately he stopped and did not try to correct the problem”
By the posts it would seem that you have attempted a number of corrections.
Unfortunately they may have cancelled any chance of a file recovery. BUT at this point you have nothing to loose in trying everything.
I hope that you have saved the original file and the subsequent changes

[VideoJockey2002]

Have you tried DVD Decrypter (freeware) to copy the disc to a folder on the hard drive? If any *.vob files show up, they should play with a software DVD player on the computer like Cyberlink PowerDVD, WinDVD, etc.

If they play, you should be able to re-author those files onto another DVD.

If files other than *.vob show up and if some have no extension whatsoever, rename them to *.mpg and see if they play (you'll need a MPEG2 codec on your computer). If they play, re-author them to a DVD.

I think DVD Decrypter is available from this site. Or just Google.