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Anonymous Posted on Apr 19, 2011

I have a sony dcr-sr37 camcorder and i want to erase my deleted videos permanently and i want them to be unrecoverable without damaging currently undeleted videos.

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Hi,

You will need to back up the un-deleted videos first to a memory card or your computer. Then use the "Format" option on the camera to permantly delete the videos.



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  • Anonymous Apr 19, 2011

    thank you very much for your quick response.
    but i have another issue. i want my undeleted videos to remain in the camcorder memory also. if i move them to computer i will not be able to move back to camcorder memory because camcorder memory can not be accessed via windows because of the write protection stuff.

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    Lee Hodgson Apr 19, 2011

    Hi,

    If thats the case then you are stuck with deleting the videos one by one from the camcorders internal memory. Its highly unlikely that anyone will be able to view such content once you have deleted them. The only other way around this problem is to save the videos to an SD (memory) card in the first place and then you can transfer content between the camcorder and your computer if the camcorder has that option.

  • Anonymous Apr 19, 2011

    thank you very much.

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