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Old 20-04-2009, 10:23
fantrace
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Got a couple of unfinalised RW+ DL DVDs that have a few recordings on them made on a Sony DVD/HD recorder, which the recorder now says are unreadable. They were cheap unbranded blanks, so I suspect there may be blemishes in the recording surface. Windows won't have anything to do with them, but Nero can at least see that there is a one track one session on there.

Any suggestions on how I can recover any undamaged recordings from the disks please?
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Old 20-04-2009, 11:05
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If Nero can "see" there is something on the disc, then you should be able to create a disc image (or ISO file) on your hard disk, then use a disc mount app to load that file as a virtual DVD drive.

This page has some info on mounting CD/DVD image files:-
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...windows-vista/
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Old 20-04-2009, 11:08
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oops, double post!
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Old 20-04-2009, 20:56
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Got a couple of unfinalised RW+ DL DVDs that have a few recordings on them made on a Sony DVD/HD recorder, which the recorder now says are unreadable. They were cheap unbranded blanks, so I suspect there may be blemishes in the recording surface. Windows won't have anything to do with them, but Nero can at least see that there is a one track one session on there.

Any suggestions on how I can recover any undamaged recordings from the disks please?
I think you mean +R DL as there are not dual layer rewritables.
If you can find another Sony machine see if that will read them- I have had several dvdr's that one drive will read and another wont.
But as they are unfinalised they need to be tried in the same brand of drive
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Old 21-04-2009, 10:25
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Generally finalisation can only take place in the drive that originally wrote to the disc, there are some exceptions but not many.

I have had good success with un-finalised and un-readable DVD's using IsoBuster:

http://www.isobuster.com/

To get the full operation of recovering files you will need to purchase it but it is relatively inexpensive if you have a good use for it.
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