Hello, I have a DVD disc my mom created with a VHS>DVD converter machine and I'd like to make a backup image and maybe edit the video, but I can't get ImgBurn (or any utility) to recognize it. She says it plays fine on her DVD Player attached to her TV, but my 2 computers both cannot access the data. My DVD Player on my TV cannot recognize the disc. Windows says disc is blank. ImgBurn and IsoBuster report seeing something (see below) but I'm not sure how to interpret it, because I don't know much about discs and disc drives, and would appreciate help from you experts. Using ImgBurn I have tried to Close the Track/Session/Disc but get some errors such as "Illegal Request", "Empty or Partially Written Reserved Track", and "Invalid Field in CDB". Details below. Drive is Samsung SH-B123L SB04 - I checked Samsung/TSST web sites and this is the latest firmware. Any suggestions? Thanks! ====ImgBurn Log I 11:53:10 ImgBurn Version 2.5.8.0 started! I 11:53:10 Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Edition (6.1, Build 7601 : Service Pack 1) I 11:53:10 Total Physical Memory: 3,668,472 KiB - Available: 1,069,536 KiB W 11:53:10 Duplex Secure's SPTD driver can have a detrimental effect on drive performance. I 11:53:10 Initialising SPTI... I 11:53:10 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 11:53:14 -> Drive 1 - Info: TSSTcorp DVDWBD SH-B123L SB04 (F (ATA) I 11:53:14 -> Drive 2 - Info: IZO 81I38DMZWX 1.03 (I (SCSI) I 11:53:14 Found 1 BD-ROM/HD DVD-ROM and 1 BD-ROM/DVD±RW! ==== ====ImgBurn info window in Read Mode TSSTcorp DVDWBD SH-B123L SB04 (ATA) Current Profile: DVD-R Disc Information: Status: Incomplete State of Last Session: Incomplete Erasable: No Free Sectors: 1,178,016 Free Space: 2,412,576,768 bytes Free Time: 261:48:66 (MM:SS:FF) Next Writable Address: 1119872 MID: RITEKF1 Supported Read Speeds: 2x, 4x, 6x Current Read Speed: 2x Pre-recorded Information: Manufacturer ID: RITEKF1 Physical Format Information (Last Recorded): Disc ID: 0@P-!-00 Book Type: DVD-R Part Version: 5 Disc Size: 120 mm Maximum Read Rate: Not Specified Number of Layers: 1 Track Path: Parallel Track Path (PTP) Linear Density: 0.267 um/bit Track Density: 0.74 um/track First Physical Sector of Data Area: 196,608 Last Physical Sector of Data Area: 0 Last Physical Sector in Layer 0: 0 ==== ====ImgBurn Media Info button is grayed out, cannot click. ====ImgBurn: Tools, Drive, Close, Track - nothing happens ====ImgBurn: Tools, Drive, Close, Session - I get this error message: I/O Error! Device: [5:0:0] TSSTcorp DVDWBD SH-123L SB04 (F (ATA ScsiStatus: 0x02 Interpretation: Check Condition CDB: 5B 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Interpretation: Close Track/Session Sense Area: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 72 04 00 00 00 00 SK Interpretation: Illegal Request ASC/ASCQ Interpretation: Empty or Partially Written Reserved Track ==== ====ImgBurn: Tools, Drive, Close, Disc - I get this error message: I/O Error! Device: [5:0:0] TSSTcorp DVDWBD SH-123L SB04 (F (ATA ScsiStatus: 0x02 Interpretation: Check Condition CDB: 5B 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Interpretation: Close Track/Session Sense Area: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 24 00 00 00 00 00 SK Interpretation: Illegal Request ASC/ASCQ Interpretation: Invalid Field in CDB ==== ====IsoBuster shows: -DVD-R --Open Session 1 ----Track 01 through Track 06 of various sizes Track 02 containing some typical DVD .ifo and .vob files of ~500MB or ~1000MB. But when I try to "Extract" Track 02 the resulting .iso file is only 32KB. When I extract the others, I get ISO files that I cannot successfully open with anything. ====
Unless the disk was 'finalized' in the machine that recorded it, it won't be recognized by a different standalone player or PC. Usually (in DVD recorders) there is a menu accessed which offers to finalize the disk. If it's not possible to finalize the disk in the original recording device IsoBuster should be able to recover the files.
Scroll down halfway to see the steps for IsoBuster. I've used them to recover files from an unfinalized disk. http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/...lized-DVD-RW?p=2072862&viewfull=1#post2072862
