Does Anyone Have Any Suggestions?

[dazuk1972]

Does anyone have any suggestions becides me sending my DVD recorder going in for repairs? My DVD recorder isn't broken, I put a DVD+RW in and my DVD recorder takes Plus and Minus discs. What happened was I didn't know the disc is corrupted and it keeps sending my DVD recorder on a reboot cycle and I can't get the disc out because the disc is jammed inside. I unplugged the DVD recorder from the main and the reboot cycle continues. My DVD recorder is a Sony with a hard drive as well and I wonder if the rebooting is involved to send the hard drive in the recovery mode where the reboot has to start the recovery mode. So far the machine is insane. I had to unplug it from the main now because it keep making my TV screen go blank every thirty-odd seconds and it was driving me insane.

Many thanks.

Darren.

[blutach]

There's usually a tiny little reset switch in the front of the unit. Unbend a paper clip and push it in to eject the damaged disk.

Regards

[dazuk1972]

There's usually a tiny little reset switch in the front of the unit. Unbend a paper clip and push it in to eject the damaged disk.

Regards

Many thanks for the help. I'll keep that in mind encase it happens again. I didn't have to do that this time, when I got up I thought of trying again and when I plugged it back in the disc ejected. I believe the long hours of it being unplugged reset things. Luckily for me my recordings are still in my hard drive. RW discs whether they are CD's or DVD's are usful for reusing but I've always found out they can corrupt easily. This has happened to me with many PC's with many burners and two DVD recorders.

Is there any software that can repair them? Another one that I tried always says Disc Error and I was told ages ago by a friend that the corruptions can be removed even though the process can take time.

Many thanks.

Darren.