How to finalize a disc in my dvd recorder?

DVD-Recordable disc - recorded fine but cannot read?

• I just recorded the wimbledon coverage on my dvd/vcr-recorder onto a blank dvd-r. It recorded fine the first time and could play back. no problem. Then I recorded the next match on a new blank dvd-r, and it showed it recording. Nothing different. The counter was going as it continued recording and i stopped it after the match. Then I tried to finalize the disc but the disc showed that I had not recorded ANYTHING!! I couldn't finalize the disc because it said nothing had been recorded. That's so weird! The red-record light was on while i was recording. I tried putting the dvd into my apple laptop but it just spits it back out. Is there a way to recover recorded data on these discs?

• Answer:

  Did you have enough hard disc space when you recorded? The image made by the program onto the hard drive prior to recording may have been corrupted, which would cause an MB or so of data to be written and then suddenly stop dead! It could be a myriad of other causes too- like a buffer overrun/underrun or simply a bad disc!