The family who had this have some pretty great taste in recorded movies. Maybe not Crystal Skull but the rest sure.
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Nice. Did you just pull the hard drive out and plug it into a pc and all the recordings were already in the .mpg format?
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As the hard drive is not formatted to be recognised on Windows, I used a program called ‘ISO Buster’ to extract the recordings. The file format depends on the brand of the recorder.
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DMDE is also a free program for Windows to recover data from unrecognized hard disk drives. If the program asks you to enter license key to recover files from hard drives off HDD recorders to your PC, Ignore it and continue with free trial with that button (which can recover 4,000 files like I do off a Panasonic HDD Blu-ray recorder).
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What are the file names you extracted Sydney recordings from television from 2008-2015? Is there a screenshot like the Mid north Coast one?
Here’s one way to do it…
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Do not use anything to extract recordings from hard drives except IsoBuster!
It extracts them directly not “recovers” them, it does have a scan and recovery function to try and extract deleted recordings as well though.
IsoBuster has been developed specifically to work on a range of formats from various video recorder manufacturers and is actively being updated.
IsoBuster can also time stamp the extracted files correctly to the time and date of the original recording.
A generic recovery program will not work, also don’t try and read or format the drive to see it, you will ruin the drive and most devices especially Panasonic will not boot if the drive is tampered with.
There are ways of recovery but they are expensive or if you were smart you backed up the boot area of the drive first.
Anyway getting way too technical.
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Got this Panasonic DMR-EX75 cheap off eBay because of a ‘U81’ error, but the Hard Drive still works and managed to save 38 recordings.
Seems that the previous owner was from Regional WA then moved to Brisbane sometime in 2009.
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Here’s hoping the first few recordings have plenty of regional WA ad goodies
Hoping there is some ABC2 goodies from 2009 and 2011.