How can I retrieve data from a dvd-r disc that recorded footage of my hols but won't play back on dvd or pc?

Question

I bought a panasonic dvd camcorder especially for my hols and was really pleased that I had got some excellent footage of my children having a great holiday but on about 29 mins of a 30 min disc the message 'disc incompatibale' appeared! This cannot be right as I had recorded other events from the same pack and they played back perfectly!!!

I took the offending disc to Jessops and another local photographic outlet but all they could tell me was that they couldn't read the disc.
Any help would be very much appreciated.

Answer 1

panasonic uses dvd-rams normally.
if its a dvd-r disk try it plyaing on a panasonic dvd player.

or play on camcoder and plug into a non-panasonic dvd-recorder
record on it.
once a dvd-r is finished on time it is finalized to be read by all dvd players. it also makes it impossible to re-write on same disc. if that did not happen then it probabaly is non readable .

Answer 2

Try leaving the disc in the camcorder and then connect the camcorder directly to your pc. Maybe you could copy it to your pc's hard drive through the camcorder. Good Luck.

Answer 3

try putting the disc back in the camcorder and then go into the menu and finalise the disc it should then play in your DVD and computer that's what i had to do with my Sony one good luck

Answer 4

Check the handbook for the causes of that message, phone Panasonic customer service/technical.

Additional- I thought about finalising as well as tfcfdaza, but thought that since you have successfully recorded already you would know about that or it would be automatic.

Answer 5

There are various DVD recovery programs available on the net that will recover your lost data. The following link may be a start.

www.dvddatarecovery.com