Well I've never had a problem with LXK DVD's in the past four years but I suppose there is always a first time. Yes I wiped the condensation off first!! Then when the disk worked I did make a copy as Jean had suggested. Check the suspect disk this morning and it still worked, he! he!
Paul On 06/15/2010 10:25 AM, Alan Muscat wrote: > Paul, > > I've never had any problems with the LXF DVD's. I suppose it all > depends on the make of your DVD? > > The freezing solution sounds like a good work around however look out > for moisture spinning away from the DVD, due to condensation as it > starts to warm up, I don't think the DVD player will enjoy that!! > > Best Regards, > > Alan. > > On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 15:50 +0200, Paul Morley wrote: >> I bought this months Linux Format magazine (LXF133) which now has a thin >> Eco-disc DVD attached. This is pretty flexible item and it did look a >> bit distorted. Well when I tried it out it would not work in my drive. >> >> I had read on a blog some time ago, that people had been able to recover >> date from failed HD's by putting them into a plastic freezer bag and >> leaving in the freezer over night. All sounded a bit far fetched to me. >> >> But I thought I would put the failed DVD in my freezer for a couple of >> hours and see what happens, there being nothing to loose as it didn't >> work anyway. >> Guess what after this 'treatment' it works as normal!! May be the low >> temperature took out the distortion allowing the disk to spin properly >> in my drive? >> >> Paul >> _______________________________________________ >> MLUG-list mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list >> > > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list >
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