D Recorder Hep
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Hi folks, I have an LG RH266 DVD recorder. I have 50 hours worth of programmes on the hard drive which I want to put onto DVD. The unit will no longer initialize disks but will record onto an initialized disk. It goes through the motions and then comes up with "Initialization Failed" and that's the disk finished with.
My questions are these... Can I use a PC to initialise a blank DVD so that it will then be accepted by and recorded on by my player and if that's not an option, are there any compatible DVD burners that I could pop into this machine?
My questions are these... Can I use a PC to initialise a blank DVD so that it will then be accepted by and recorded on by my player and if that's not an option, are there any compatible DVD burners that I could pop into this machine?
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Have you tried putting a cleaning disk through the machine? May do nothing but stranger things have been known to happen. Or even try a different make of blank disk. Sometimes drives can be picky about what disks they want to play with.
As for replacing the drive. That depends if the unit uses a computer style drive unit or not. It might be a separate mechanism with all the associated electronics on the main board. Only by opening it up will you find out. But even then you might be no better off.
If it is a computer style unit then it might only work with the exact make and model of drive as already installed. Plus no guarantee that LG haven't tweaked it. I know I tried to replace a drive in a professional Tascam CD recorder once. It was a bog standard drive that I could find fairly cheaply online. However Tascam flashed the firmware of the thing with a custom version so you could only buy the drives from them. The apparently identical off the shelf drive wouldn't work!
http://www.justanswer.com/electronics/206i3-lg-rh266-suddenly-decided-stop-recognising.html but I don't recommend carrying out the 'turn a pot a bit' suggestions on this link.
So, I would try and clean the laser as ChrisJr says.
Or just Chris, or I have been known to respond to "oi you!"
Thank you.
Mind you if you'd written chris junior :mad: as one poster did several years ago that would be grounds for a falling out...
The disk drive has two ribbon connectors so is not the same as a PC drive. I wouldn't mind but it will record fine and finalize fine, it just won't initialize.
That will return the settings back to out of the box condition. But it might just reset the unit and restore the initialise disk function.
Initialising a DVD on my PC would do it but it seems that the powers in the digital world have had no reason to invent this concept yet, or if they have I can't find it.
Cheers