Feck feck feck deleted all my dr whos

Fecking Panasonic.

I meant to 'finalise' but instead hit 'format' and wiped 5 episodes of
Dr Who that I was backing up from the hard drive. And of course I'd
deleted them frmo the hard drive before I formatted the disc.

No one ever told me i cant finalise a DVD ram. I hate panasonic.

Ed wrote:
Fecking Panasonic.

I meant to 'finalise' but instead hit 'format' and wiped 5 episodes of
Dr Who that I was backing up from the hard drive. And of course I'd
deleted them frmo the hard drive before I formatted the disc.

No one ever told me i cant finalise a DVD ram. I hate panasonic.

So get them off a bittorent site, problem solved

Damon

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Ed wrote:
Fecking Panasonic.

I meant to 'finalise' but instead hit 'format' and wiped 5 episodes of
Dr Who that I was backing up from the hard drive. And of course I'd
deleted them frmo the hard drive before I formatted the disc.

No one ever told me i cant finalise a DVD ram. I hate panasonic.

So get them off a bittorent site, problem solved

But it always seems to take about 22 years to download through Bittorrent
(and I'm on a 10Mbit connection)!

Mother Farquhar wrote:
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Ed wrote:
Fecking Panasonic.

I meant to 'finalise' but instead hit 'format' and wiped 5 episodes of
Dr Who that I was backing up from the hard drive. And of course I'd
deleted them frmo the hard drive before I formatted the disc.

No one ever told me i cant finalise a DVD ram. I hate panasonic.

So get them off a bittorent site, problem solved

But it always seems to take about 22 years to download through Bittorrent
(and I'm on a 10Mbit connection)!

Maybe you should make sure your router has the requisite holes....

Some torrents can take a long time, if very few are seeding, but ones where
people are i get full speed (100k on a 1mb line).

Gaz

Were you ever likely to watch them again though?

My kid watches them all the time


No one ever told me i cant finalise a DVD ram. I hate panasonic.
Huh? Does it not say in the manual?
I expect so, but I havent read it

Damon wrote:
Ed wrote:
Fecking Panasonic.

I meant to 'finalise' but instead hit 'format' and wiped 5 episodes of
Dr Who that I was backing up from the hard drive. And of course I'd
deleted them frmo the hard drive before I formatted the disc.

No one ever told me i cant finalise a DVD ram. I hate panasonic.

So get them off a bittorent site, problem solved

They won't be in as good quality though. It's rare you get DVD-format
(mpeg2) torrents online due to the size of them.

BTW, I was hoping the originator of this thread was Russell T Davies

To save problems like this happening, I got a 400Gb Seagate USB hard
drive and connect that via firewire to my PC. That way, every time I
record something I want to keep I archive it to DVD and convert that to
an .mpg file on the hard drive (the latter is dead easy with a program
like Mpeg Video Wizard) and I do that before I delete it from my TiVo.

That way, you don't end up filling a disc and then finding that part of
the disc was duff and you can't get that episode off it and it was on
weeks ago so there's no chance ot getting it again at the same quality.

I never fill the hard drive as once I've got a disc's worth to make a
DVD out of (eg. a whole series if it's something 6 eps long) then that
space is freed up again.

Dom

Ed wrote:
Fecking Panasonic.

I meant to 'finalise' but instead hit 'format' and wiped 5 episodes of
Dr Who that I was backing up from the hard drive. And of course I'd
deleted them frmo the hard drive before I formatted the disc.

No one ever told me i cant finalise a DVD ram. I hate panasonic.


More feck than feck feck feck I'd say. Feck feck feck would be doing
what you did with something you've had for years on VHS and then
copied over to DVD, and then wiped with very little hope of replacing.

You could always - wow, here's an idea - buy the DVDs.

Blaming Panasonic is a bit harsh. In future, RTFM!

Ed wrote:
Were you ever likely to watch them again though?

My kid watches them all the time


No one ever told me i cant finalise a DVD ram. I hate panasonic.
Huh? Does it not say in the manual?
I expect so, but I havent read it

So it's not Panasonic's fault, it's yours.

More feck than feck feck feck I'd say. Feck feck feck would be doing what you did with something you've had for years on VHS and then copied over to DVD, and then wiped with very little hope of replacing.

You could always - wow, here's an idea - buy the DVDs.
It's not out yet!

Blaming Panasonic is a bit harsh. In future, RTFM!

I was joking, I've read the manual several times, I just didnt realise
you couldnt finalise DVDRAM, so hit format without properly reading as
that is where finalise usually sits in the menu. So it is partly
panasonics fault, and then again mainly mine for not reading the text
that says 'are you sure you want to format as it will delete anything
on the disc'!

Ed wrote:
More feck than feck feck feck I'd say. Feck feck feck would be doing
what you did with something you've had for years on VHS and then
copied over to DVD, and then wiped with very little hope of
replacing.

You could always - wow, here's an idea - buy the DVDs.
It's not out yet!

Blaming Panasonic is a bit harsh. In future, RTFM!

I was joking, I've read the manual several times, I just didnt realise
you couldnt finalise DVDRAM, so hit format without properly reading as
that is where finalise usually sits in the menu.

You should be asking "do data recovery programs work on DVD-RAM disks"?

I don't know the answer

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Mike