exasperatedone Posted September 6, 2008 Report Share Posted September 6, 2008 Hello,I am going to be as detailed as possible with my question.I have a Panasonic DMR ES10 DVD recorder. I have had many problems with DVD's that have been recorded on all of a sudden saying "unformatted". I use DVD-RW all the time, unless I am recording one movie or show and then closing out the disk. I have tried the Sony packs of 25 disks that come all together, and the Sony ones that come packed in a box of 10, with individual jewel cases. I have also tried Memorex. Many of these are almost full DVD's, and then all of a sudden when I place them back into the recorder to add to them, I get a message saying "unformatted". This has happened numerous times, and I have lot a lot of material I will not be able to get back, as well as a LOT of time invested in recording.Is this a common issue, or is there something wrong with my recorder? I have the recorder set to record 4 hrs of material per dvd, and it seems that usually halfway through or more, I get the unformatted message. Then I cant do anything with the disk other than reformat it and start over again, losing everything. Is there any way to retrieve the material off of these disks? I am tired of constantly losing everything. I buy the disks, format them, record on them, and then try to finalize them. I do not record on them over and over, they are just used one time until they are full. I was told that because I keep taking different disks in and out of the machine to record different material, I need to use DVD-RW?Please help,Thank you,exasperatedone Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sultan_emerr Posted September 6, 2008 Report Share Posted September 6, 2008 I had a similar problem which was fixed by using my service plan to have the shop to reset the laser output power. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
exasperatedone Posted September 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2008 Thank you sultan_emerr,So what your saying is I have to bring the unit in for repair? Tell them what the problem is and have them do that?I must have a dozen DVD's that are almost ready to be finalized, and now read unformatted.thanks again Quote Link to post Share on other sites
irregularjoe Posted October 9, 2008 Report Share Posted October 9, 2008 A little late, but are you paying attention to the - + format of the DVD?. I think the Panasonic is +. I could be wrong though. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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