Recovery of Camcorder mini DVD Disks

It is a common problem for Camcorder disks, mini DVD disks to fail in a way that they can not be read on a PC, or the original camera, but can be recovered by CnW camcorder recovery software. This is often due to disks not being finalised, as well as dirt, or camera problems. The failure is normally associated with the start of the 1.4GB DVD disk not being written, or becoming unreadable. The success rate of restoring corrupted video DVDs with CnW Software has been extremely high.

The process has been simplified with CnW V3 with a special function for Mini DVDs.  This camcorder recovery software analyses the disk and determines where the video data is stored

Procedure

When such a disk is placed in a DVD reader, it can be very slow starting CnW Recovery.  Be patient, and after a few minutes, the recovery software will determine where the data is stored.  Once an output directory has been selected, it will copy the files as the same time as extracting all the MPEG files.  The final stage (except for the demo) is to merge the MPEGs into a VOB files and recreate any .IFO files.  This process tolerates areas of the disk that have become unreadable. There is then an option to create a playable DVD

The process is compatible with all cameras, including very popular Sony Camcorders.

Blank DVDs

Some mini-DVD-RW as well as some DVD-R will show up as blank disks.  It can be clear that data has been written, but CnW (and other programs) will indicate that the disk is blank.  The probability is that the disk has been erased, or formatted.  Fortunately, CnW have developed a technique with special hardware where these disks can be recovered, but is not part of the standard software.  CnW provide a service for £40 to recover video and return the disks world wide, with a no fix, no fee basis.  Please contact CnW for more details

Demo and software

To download the CnW mini dvd recovery software, just click here and then run the demo. When recovery is possible, the software will display a small thumbnail of each video chapter, even on the demo.  The thumbnail clip will update a few times each minute and gives confidence that video will be recovered.