Can DVD created with write error be salvaged?

[JudgeGarth]

I received a DVD-R from a trading partner. It freezes at a certain spot. I looked at the disk closely under a light and you can see a "stripe" going around the disk (I assume that's the trouble spot). It looks like he must have had a write error while creating it. My question is: can the disk be saved? I tried copying it to a DVD+R with Roxio Easy DVD Copy and it copied successfully (no stripe), but the copy also freezes in the same spot on playback. I assume that the original physical disk error became a logical error on the copy.

[oldandinthe way]

try dvdfab decrypter. It can be told to ignore physical read errors when it encounters them.

check the tools list at the right of the screen for download information.

[JudgeGarth]

Thank you very much! I'll take a look.

[Bullworth]

ISOBuster is another good tool to try if Fab doesn't work. Has a lot of settings to toy around with to rescue discs.