WTB: DVD Recorder (specific make/model)

2009-09-10 05:11:02 pm

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This is probably a long shot...

As the people in the Ogre Battle Thread know, my DVD recorder gave out on me. More specifically, the DVD Drive in it broke. As far as I know, the Hard Drive is still perfectly fine, but so long as the DVD Drive is in this condition, the Hard Drive fails to boot up properly. As it stands, I have 2 runs stuck on there that have enough verifiers (Ogre Battle and Air Fortress) that I cannot submit until I can manage to get them off of it.

So this is the idea: I need another DVD Recorder of the same make/model (with a working DVD Drive) so I can transplant my hard drive into it and grab the data off of it. The one I have is a:

Philips DVDR 3455H HDD & DVD Player/Recorder (This is the exact wording on the front panel)

Now, realistically, I'm not looking to break the bank here. The last one I saw on eBay sold for around $85 or so (sadly, the auction ended exactly 24 hours before I got my hands on the money to afford one :'(). I'd be willing to go as high as $100, but can't afford anything higher.

I'd also be open to the option of simply borrowing one and retrieving my data, then sending it back. If this wound up being the case I could settle for buying a brand new one at a later date when money isn't as tight as it is for me right now.

Also: I live in the US, and thus need one from this region.

Thread title:

This is probably a long shot...

As the people in the [url=http://speeddemosarchive.com/forum/index.php/topic,4650.90.html]Ogre Battle Thread[/url] know, my DVD recorder gave out on me. More specifically, the DVD Drive in it broke. As far as I know, the Hard Drive is still perfectly fine, but so long as the DVD Drive is in this condition, the Hard Drive fails to boot up properly. As it stands, I have 2 runs stuck on there that have enough verifiers (Ogre Battle and Air Fortress) that I cannot submit until I can manage to get them off of it.

So this is the idea: I need another DVD Recorder of the same make/model (with a working DVD Drive) so I can transplant my hard drive into it and grab the data off of it. The one I have is a:

Philips DVDR 3455H HDD & DVD Player/Recorder (This is the exact wording on the front panel)

Now, realistically, I'm not looking to break the bank here. The last one I saw on eBay sold for around $85 or so (sadly, the auction ended exactly 24 hours before I got my hands on the money to afford one  :'(). I'd be willing to go as high as $100, but can't afford anything higher.

I'd also be open to the option of simply borrowing one and retrieving my data, then sending it back. If this wound up being the case I could settle for buying a brand new one at a later date when money isn't as tight as it is for me right now.

Also: I live in the US, and thus need one from this region.

Manocheese

2009-09-10 05:22:15 pm

Yes, a cucco riding the ground.

I think the hard drives in DVD recorders are just regular hard drives, so you might be able to hook it up to your computer somehow and get the data off that way. I'm certainly not the one to ask about how to do it, though.

Sir VG

2009-09-10 05:24:18 pm

Fucking Weeaboo

While they are, Monocheese, they're typically formatted in a way that computers can't read them.

Cmon

2009-09-10 06:10:08 pm

-_-"

if I understand what you meant, can't you just load the hdd first then the dvd?

Manocheese

2009-09-10 08:17:58 pm

Yes, a cucco riding the ground.

Quote from Cmon:

if I understand what you meant, can't you just load the hdd first then the dvd?

Even if he can get the HDD to load, he can't burn any of the files on it to DVD, meaning (if what Lard_VG said is correct) that he needs to put the HDD in another DVD recorder to burn the files to disc. I remember reading something about getting files directly off of HDDs from DVD recorders, though, so I might look that up.

ZenicReverie

2009-09-10 08:30:59 pm

Waiting hurts my soul...

damn... I got excited when I read your make... sadly the model I have is a 3575H Sad

I wonder if the HDDs are compatible though.

Dragondarch

2009-09-11 09:09:08 am

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Quote from ZenicReverie:

damn... I got excited when I read your make... sadly the model I have is a 3575H Sad

I wonder if the HDDs are compatible though.

I did some digging of my own not too long ago and found out that our two models are not, sadly.

Carcinogen

2009-09-11 09:55:59 am

There a warranty on it of any kind?

How much would it cost to RMA it and get it fixed compared to outright buying a new recorder?

Zugzwang

2009-09-12 04:33:10 am

You probably already know but there were two on ebay yesterday, and now there's a third Here. Hopefully by the third it'll be a reasonable price.

Dragondarch

2009-09-12 09:28:23 am

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Got my alarm clock set to go off ~45 minutes before each of the 2 that aren't over $100 yet. Let's hope I can get one of them.

Carcinogen

2009-09-13 08:25:30 pm

Quote from Dragondarch:

Got my alarm clock set to go off ~45 minutes before each of the 2 that aren't over $100 yet. Let's hope I can get one of them.

Find a sniper, yo.

Dragondarch

2009-09-14 01:48:44 pm

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Well, the one yesterday ended with me being outbid at the last second (The price was $83. I waited until the last second and bid $84, but at the same time someone else bid $103.47, and thus got it).

The one today has already increased higher than I'm willing to pay (sitting at like $105 right now, 3 hours left).

There's one more up that has 5 days left, and has almost no bids thus far. The seller says there's some problems with the disc tray sliding out, but mine used to have that problem too, and so long as I can get it working long enough to get the info off my HDD I won't really care about anything else.

WTB a buyout!

Manocheese

2009-09-14 03:19:41 pm

Yes, a cucco riding the ground.

Quote from Dragondarch:

Well, the one yesterday ended with me being outbid at the last second (The price was $83. I waited until the last second and bid $84, but at the same time someone else bid $103.47, and thus got it).

IIRC, the way it works is that the bid amount you put in is actually the maximum amount that you're willing to pay. So, if something is at $10, no one has bid on it, and you bid $10000 (not recommended), the highest bid will only change by some minimum increment. Later, if someone comes along and bids $20, the highest bid will get bumped up again by another minimum increment, creating the illusion that two people are bidding at the same time.

Dragondarch

2009-09-14 09:10:44 pm

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You can set it up to do that, but you can also manual bid as well, which is what I did. Though I only outbid what was there by the minimum increment. Whoever won it didn't increase it by the minimum increment (which was $1), and instead bid $20 more than the price I outbid.

Jacob McMillin

2009-09-16 01:11:34 am

This sounds unreal, ridiculous really, but I came to teh forums here looking to sell the exact same model that you specified. If you are still interested, I will provide any and all details as soon as you desire. It's honestly a freaky coincidence.

Dragondarch

2009-09-16 10:46:07 am

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That does seem unreal, but I think it works better than eBay will.
I'm going to be moving in a couple weeks (most of my junk is already packed up), so it'd probably be best if we wait until after I'm set up in the new place.

(I'd like to do it now, but there's some slight randomness on exactly what day I'm going to be leaving here, so I can't guarantee that I'll still be living here when it arrives)

Did you have any particular price in mind?

Jacob91

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Jacob91: 2009-09-18 12:48:24 pm

2009-09-16 04:48:49 pm

Quote from Dragondarch:

That does seem unreal, but I think it works better than eBay will.
I'm going to be moving in a couple weeks (most of my junk is already packed up), so it'd probably be best if we wait until after I'm set up in the new place.

(I'd like to do it now, but there's some slight randomness on exactly what day I'm going to be leaving here, so I can't guarantee that I'll still be living here when it arrives)

Did you have any particular price in mind?

Um, I don't mind waiting at all. I've never shipped anything anywhere, gives me time to figure that all out. Here's my email address in case you want to contact me: Jacobmcmillin1991h@gmail.com

And I was thinking 90 to 100 Dollars plus shipping. I don't know for sure though, but it won't go higher than 100.

EDIT OF AN EDIT: I'm debating what to sell it for.

EDIT: I'll sell it for 100 flat, that includes shipping and everything. (Unless I'm underestimating shipping costs...)

Guest

2009-09-24 11:55:36 am

I don't know if you would like to try this but maybe it'll save you some money.

The chances are pretty high that the file system on the HDD of your recorder is a free one but different from FAT16/32 and NTFS. A lot of the companies which produce those recorders use e.g. reiserfs.

I recommend to either set up a linux system on your computer and try it like this (ubuntu is an install and go linux system, current version 9.04) or you try a live-CD, which runs completely on your RAM and won't affect any of your files. Minimum requirement of RAM is 512 MB (e.g. Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop CD). It is a free possibility you could try. Linux systems support many file systems and it is very expensive to create a new one so maybe they just took one of the free non-windows ones.

Sorry for off-topicness, maybe a post for the tech support thread.