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Formatting a blank DVD
My friend has asked me to copy VHS tape onto DVD.
When I hit the copy button I get a message saying " can not copy , disk is not formatted"
Can anyone help? I've looked online, but everything seems to be centred around computers , not DVD players.
Fingers crossed.
Devon.
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Hi Hosta. Are you using a combination deck for the job?
Not for vhs pansy.
i have a combined set, I'll have a look later. You won't like the quality though, we tried to watch a video yesterday, awful, going to throw them all away.
I'm way ahead of you Pansy. I read this post and all I got was blah blah blah...
Does the instruction manual give any ideas?
If you don't have one, you can almost certainly download it from the manufacturer's website - usually under the Support or Documentation tab.
I used to regularly copy stuff to DVD and I can't ever recall needing to format the disk first
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Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
I have an old fashioned hard disc / DVD recorder and before I can copy anything to a DVD I have to Format the blank DVD so the machine can 'read' it.
There is an option in one of the menus to format the blank DVD. On mine it's one of the sub-headings under something like "Disc Management".
It should either tell you how to do it in the instruction manual or (if that's long since been filed 'somewhere safe') you might well be able to download the manual if you put something like " operating manual for ...[the make & model number of the machine]" into Google.
If all else fails post the make and model on here & perhaps we can help.
I've got the manual but nothing about "fomatting" I know I'm useless, but can one buy formatted and unformatted blank DVDs?
Perhaps you should employ a scribe to copy it frame by frame and etch it onto the disc?
I watched clip on you tube where vhs / dvd machines were referred to as " heritage pieces" the cheek of it.
It's video my friend took of his daughter ( the one re-united last week after 15 years) and he wants a copy for himself and one for her so I'm really keen to sort it out for the both.
being brilliant at one thing would please me pansyface