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Need your help badly. I was asked by a friend to make a DVD copy of a 20 year old CBS/Fox VHS prerecord. It was copyguarded and appears to have "fried" the firmware on my RCA DRC8030N dvd recorder. I can't get any discs to record. Its completely locked up. I've tried unplugging. The HARD Drive is fine but now I cant record off the air or archive to disc. do you happen to have a firmware update for this model? any help is greatly appreciated.

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Hi, and welcome.

First off, it is unlikely --- impossible, actually -- for copyguard to "fry" anything. At most, it's just coincidental timing.

There are two more likely issues going on:
1. You're not using a good Mitsubishi Verbatim non-Life/non-Value disc. Read the blank DVD review.
2. The drive has died, and simply needs to be replaced with a comparable model.

New firmware would not help here.

What blanks are you using? Perhaps try a better disc, if not using Verbatim.
And again, not the Life Series, not the Value Series.

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