How to rip unfinalized/damaged DVD made on Video Recorder

[Brent G.]

Well I did something stupid.<g> I returned a DVD recorder a few months back and thought I had finalized all of the DVD's that I had recorded on it. Well, a few have turned up since then and I'm wondering if there is a way to extract the video onto my Windows machine and rip another DVD.

Someone mentioned software that would do this, but I can't remember what it was. It was for repairing damaged or unfinalized DVD's. I'm hoping it runs on Windows (XP/Win2k). Can anyone give me a heads up?

Brent
TIA

[mazinz]

the app isobuster should be able to do this for you. It will/can still read dvds that are in the 'open session" allowing you to extract the content. I had to do this on 2 dvds i got from someone because they forgot to finalize and close the discs.

[Brent G.]

Yes, that the software I was looking for.
So I've downloaded and ran it. I've read through the help file and I'm still not sure I'm using it right. As I mentioned the DVD is from my DVD recorder.

ISO Buster 1.8 displays Track01 through Track11 on the DVD. I ran "Extract User Data" and extracted each track to Tracknn.tao" and renamed it to Tracknn.ISO and they now sit on my hard drive.

I ran "Find missing files and folders" and it came up with Track11 with "Files found via their signature" Under this directory it has recovered files "Recoverd File 1.VTS_xx_0.IFO, "Recovered File 2.VOB", "Recovered File.4.VR_MANGR.IFO" and several more like this up to "Recovered File 14.VR_Managr.IFO".

Am I now suppose to run Nero and burn each ISO file separately? So each file is a different session? And what do I do with the recovered files? How do they get burnt to the new dvd?

TIA
Brent