My 2006 World Cup Footage is Lost - can it be recovered?

2 Sep 2006 10:53 AM

marko

I bought a Sony DCR-DVD703E to capture footage from a recent round the
world trip with my family that took in some matches at the World Cup.
Well we had a great time and gots some good footage, camera was working
great using a Sony 60 min DVD-RW in VR mode.

Anyway my son was using it in the car and was trying to record beyond
the capacity of the disk, got an error message and that was it
Recording Disabled message and we can no longer access any of the files
on the disk apart from a single still shot!

We are devestated because this is once in a lifetime suff on there and
it is very weird because the disc was not removed when this all
happened and the camera has continued to work perfectly since with
other discs so nothing there.

Does anyone have any tips about how I can recover the files from the
disk as Sony Australia have been no help at all?

Anything at all would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Mark

4 Sep 2006 8:39 AM

Martin van derPoel

Hi There,
Have you tried IsoBuster?

A while back someone gave me a DVD that had not been finalised and it
appeared empty in explorer, but IsoBuster could see the files and save them
to my hard drive.

Regards,

Martin

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"marko" <ottig***@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:1157194435.367264.21550@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>I bought a Sony DCR-DVD703E to capture footage from a recent round the
> world trip with my family that took in some matches at the World Cup.
> Well we had a great time and gots some good footage, camera was working
> great using a Sony 60 min DVD-RW in VR mode.
>
> Anyway my son was using it in the car and was trying to record beyond
> the capacity of the disk, got an error message and that was it
> Recording Disabled message and we can no longer access any of the files
> on the disk apart from a single still shot!
>
> We are devestated because this is once in a lifetime suff on there and
> it is very weird because the disc was not removed when this all
> happened and the camera has continued to work perfectly since with
> other discs so nothing there.
>
> Does anyone have any tips about how I can recover the files from the
> disk as Sony Australia have been no help at all?
>
> Anything at all would be much appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Mark
>

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