...screw up disks so often? _ For example, if I put a disc in and record directly to it for a little while (and then maybe copy some things from the recorder's hard disk to this disc), and then take the disc out and put it back in, why is it somewhat often that the recorder will come back with "DVD+R Empty Disc" even though I KNOW I have just recorded stuff to that disc?
What if I can't even recover the videos by using a computer--even that can't find the video files? WHAT is happening? This didn't happen when the recorder was newer, so why does it have to happen when the machine is only a little more than a year old?
I hate this because I don't always remember which recordings I've lost that I need to try to find the reruns of, and if it ever happens with things that will only air once, I'm screwed! I thought this Philips machine was reliable, but I guess NOT, now! I should just keep running VHS recordings along with the DVDs, as a backup, huh?
What can I do to recover the 1s and 0s of video file data that I KNOW were burned to the disc, but just which the standalone recorder has screwed up the directory entries to?
Oh, and by the way, since these are write-once discs, how can the drive in the recorder write over the directory entry to screw it up?
Oh, and NO, I did NOT scratch or do any other kind of mechanical damage to the discs, so when you answer, please rule that out!
Will you come back later to see my responses to your answers, please?
Thanks,
Mike
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