Finalizing a Disk

I have been given a DVD for a presentation that apparently has not been finalized. I need the video to finish a tribute video for a church's centennial anniversary celebration. I there any way to salvage the video or either finalize it on a different system.
I have no idea how it was created. The person is several hundred miles away and I don't even know their name. Obviously not a professional. I has been copied from a video taken in 1950 or so. I really need to salvage this, but have now idea what to do.
PLEASE HELP!!!

The problem is that the disk is unreadle because it has not been finaliazed. I can seel the data rings on the disk, but it has to be "finalized" as it is called by the recording or dubbing machine. Therefore, the file system on the disk is not readable.

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Tom Wolsky wrote:
I can't even open FCE any more because I have moved everything onto the external hard drive including software 'everything'.
You moved the software? You can't do that. That's fatal. The software must be on the system drive as it requires system resources. Move the application called Final Cut Express back into the top level of the Applications folder. Do it move it, rename it, or put it inside a folder.
Do not assign the scratch disk to a folder anywhere. If you want the scratch disk to be on your external drive select the top level of the external drive. FCE will create the folders it needs in that location.
Hi,
When you say move the application final cut express into the application folder.
Do you mean move my folder of final cut express that I moved onto my HDD?
If so it's copying the 20GB folder as I speak. Hopefully fixes this frustrating problem..
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I have a Seagate 1.5 TB external hard drive. Up until recently it was working fine. I noticed that things stored on it were starting to take longer to open up. There was a relatively constant clicking noise on it, not just when Time Machine was backing up my files. I finally ran Disk Utility and it said that the volume needed to be repaired. Ever since that time the hd is not showing up on my desktop or in my finder. I used the startup disk and went into disk utility but it doesn't appear there. When I turn on the computer in regular mode and go to disk utility it is there, though. When I click "Repair Disk", though, nothing happens. Any suggestions? Do I need to just erase the disk and reformat? I was able to use a program called Data Rescue to get the most important files, but I'd rather not start from scratch.

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Hi,
I have a MacBook Pro (late 2011) with OSX Lion.
My HDD crashed 2 months after my guarantee ended (obviously). I have a backup for all my personal files, but no reboot disk.
I have replaced the HDD with an SSD (Samsung SSD 840 Pro 256gb) and did an internet recovery.
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I change iMac hard disk from basic to dynamic in windows 7, after restart windows I saw that there is not any OS X for selecting by press and hold "Option" key.
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Welcome to Apple Support Communities
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I think I should just reinstall everything nothing works how do I do iy?

Can you explain more what it is not working?
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After Installing disk 1 of product recovery I am getting a message asking for "Final C" disk. I do not have this and I can go no farther with the recovery
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Maybe you could provide a little more information as to how you are trying to recover your system, are the recovery discs from Lenovo or did you create them yourself?
Recovery scenario using Lenovo or self created recovery discs;
boot from the Lenovo R&R or 1st disc created, once it has loaded choose to restore system and then restore to factory settings. Make sure you read all messages carefully. If it says remove disc and turn off and then turn on your system, you will need to, after removing the disc, press the power on button untill the system turns off, then turn it on again without inserting any disc.
You may be asked for a supplemental disc. If the discs are self created you do not have this disc and you need to click on "no". If the discs are from Lenovo you may, may not have one, click "yes" or "no" accordingly. Proceed as instructed and your system will be recovered.
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Hope this helps
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Thinkpad edge 0578 possibly incomplete recovery disks

My gf said her lenovo is getting slow so I decided to get her an SSD and do a fresh install of win7 on it. She has 3 DVDs created which I believe believe from the lenovo Rescue and recovery software.They are
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DVD3) lenovo recovery data2.
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1) quick restore (grayed out, cant be selected)
2) full restore
3) rescue files.
I chose full restore and select DVD/CD to locate backup , but it didn't find anything. I subsequently put in DVD2 and DVD3 , it didn't find any backup and prompted for a "final C" DVD. At this point I'm thinking GF didn't create her recovery disk properly. I popped in her original HDD and try to create another recovery disk but it says it can only be done once.
Do you think she's missing a final C disk?
Is there a way to move forward with installing win 7 on her SSD besides recovery DVD from lenovo?
Her laptop model is thinkpad edge 0578 , win 7 home edition. she bought it 2 years ago and it's probably out of warranty.

Hi,
I"m surprised that your recovery media didn't install all the original drivers. It should have AFAIK.
If your recovery media is old enough to pre-date SP1 _and_ youve installed an advanced format drive (most HDDs are these days) that could explain the windows update problem.
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Disk Error - Bad Disk Message - Can't play DVD

Yet another "disk won't play" issue.
I'm using DSP 4.1.2 to create an HD DVD, from an uncompressed 1280x720 QT movie.
The final encoded disk will play fine on a Mac, but not on either of two DVD players I've tried. I'm using Sony media.
The disk contains a folder named HVDVD_TS,if that tells you anything.
My preferences are set to HD DVD Standard, under the PROJECT tab.
No menu is used, but the clip loops as intended. It plays automatically, too, just as I programmed FIRST PLAY. The DVD looks fantastic on a Mac G5.
So, now I'm stuck. And I have to get several copies out of here QUICK.
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Tom Hanser wrote:
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Verify disk failure on Mac Book Pro Toshiba hard drive

I tried to run a verify disk on the Toshiba Hard drive on my computer and the following error keeps repeating. It will let me run a repair but the same error occurs after every verify.

Welcome to Apple Support Communities
You will be glad that's not a hardware problem, but it looks like your EFI partition is damaged. That volume is used to store firmware updates, as they are installed during the startup. If you don't have any problem while turning on your MacBook and you have an old MacBook, you can ignore these steps, but it's better to solve this problem.
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Then, hold Command, Option (Alt) and R keys while your Mac is starting to start up in Recovery, open Disk Utility and erase the hard disk > http://pondini.org/OSX/DU1.html A healthy EFI partition will be made.
Finally, close Disk Utility and reinstall OS X. When the installation finishes, Mac OS X will ask you to restore the backup, so follow the steps.
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After finally getting Disk Utility to run successfully, without crashing, it says that all the modifications it found cannot, or will not be repaired. ***??
I am almost tempted to re-install tiger so I can get my Macbook run smoothly again. I have been getting alot more beachballs, and sometimes I get horizontal tearing.

I don't have any ready answers for you on that. There are lots of performance related discussions going on here. You'd probably be best served by bringing this issue into one of those threads or starting a new thread.
But some things to check:
Has Spotlight completed its initial indexing since you installed Leopard? Click on the Spotlight icon in the upper right corner and see if it says it is still indexing.
Do you have some process consuming an unusual amount of CPU time? Run Applications / Utilities / Activity Monitor. Select show all processes. Click on the CPU column to sort by CPU usage.
Is something repeatedly failing and chewing up resources due to that? Run Applications / Utilities / Console. Select All Messages. See if you are getting repeating error messages of some sort.
Is Leopard recognizing all of your hardware correctly, and in particular is it seeing all the memory you have installed? Select About This Mac from the Apple Menu. See how much memory it says you have. Click on More Info to enter the System Profiler to see the details on what's known about all your hardware/software setup. Does anything look fishy?
Are you running any third party software that might need a Leopard upgrade?
Basic maintenance when the computer is not acting the way you like is to:
Reset Parameter memory (PRAM) -- the place the computer stashes copies of certain settings for quick access: To do this, shut down the computer. Locate the Apple-Option-P-R keys. Hold down all 4 of those keys and keep them held down. With your 3rd hand, press and release the power button. Keep those 4 keys held down. You will hear the startup chime, and about 10 seconds later you will hear a second startup chime. You can now release those 4 keys. The system will continue to boot normally.
Check your hard drive and system file permissions: Run Applications / Utilities / Disk Utility. Select your hard drive from the list on the left. Select Verify Disk on the right. This will take a long time (20 minutes or so) and the progress bar won't advance at all. Be patient. If the report comes back with errors, then reboot directly from your Leopard install DVD (hold down the "c" key while rebooting). Instead of beginning the install phase again, use the version of Disk Utility available from the menu bar -- except this time do a Repair Disk instead of a verify.
Once your hard drive is known to pass the file structure verification, use Disk Utility on it again only this time Repair Permissions. This will take 20 minutes or so and the progress bar won't advance until the very end.
Having done these steps, check again to see how your system performance is doing.
Just to give you an idea how obscure some of these performance things can be we just had a performance issue that got resolved in another thread. The poster had decided to swap out his internal drive for a larger drive and do a fresh Erase and Install. His performance was awful.
Turns out he had put the new drive into the same bay with another drive and they were both configured to be the "master" drive on that bus. It's a wonder it worked at all.
The bottom line is that when properly installed on proper hardware, Leopard really is running quite snappily after Spotlight finishes indexing. So keep looking for what's wrong with your setup rather than going back to Tiger.
--Bob

I can't understand why my computer show me this error when I click verify disk?

Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
Checking file systemPerforming live verification.
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking extents overflow file.
Checking catalog file.
Incorrect block count for file iTunes.zip
(It should be 5379 instead of 30576501)
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking catalog hierarchy.
Checking extended attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Volume bitmap needs minor repair for orphaned blocks
Checking volume information.
Invalid volume free block count
(It should be 99244668 instead of 68673546)
The volume Macintosh HD was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.
Error: This disk needs to be repaired using the Recovery HD. Restart your computer, holding down the Command key and the R key until you see the Apple logo. When the OS X Utilities window appears, choose Disk Utility.

As Templeton Peck has said, you have to start into Recovery HD (holding Command and R keys while your Mac is starting) and repair the disk. Fortunately, it doesn't look like a hard drive problem (your drive isn't failing). See > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
After starting in Recovery, you will see a OS X Utilities window, where you have to select Disk Utility. Then, select "Macintosh HD" in the sidebar and repair the disk. Finally, close Disk Utility, and go to  > Restart

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