Is it possible to overcome read errors in homemade DVD?

[geepondy]

I have a home made DVD (no protection) that will only play briefly before locking up and I'm getting read errors when I attempt to copy it to my hard drive. I got the read errors thru DVD decrypter and also just trying to drag and drop it using windows explorer. Is this a program or methodology to copy this to the hard drive? Even if I had to miss tiny pieces of the movie and somehow have to recompile it to a new DVD, this would be better then nothing.

[guns1inger]

Try using a different PC. Not all drives are made equal, and not all drives read all disc the same. You may find on an alternate drive you can read the whole thing.

You could also tell DVD Decrypter to Ignore Read Errors (I/O page in Options). This may allow you to get the files off the disc, however you will probably get glitches in the video that may still cause issues., including lock ups and audio sync problems. You may find you have to edit these parts out of th evideo before re-authoring.

[AlanHK]

Isopuzzle will do this if it's possible at all.

But first try cleaning the disc -- I wash dust and grime off by washing with warm water, dishwashing liquid and carefully rubbing with my fingers, then rinse thoroughly and dry with a soft towel.

If the disc is scratched, you can be more aggressive. First try rubbing with toothpaste. Deeper scratches, try Brasso. Rinse and dry as before.

[overloaded_ide]

As they said.

If your lucky enough to THINK you got it copied then check it very close!

My Blues Brothers backup had errors and rather than capture it from tape again I tried to copy it to PC . After about 5 tries I got it copied but checking it I had about 4-6 really bad spots spread out on it that it was not messing with, it was worse that the disk it came off of.

A friend had the Christine movie on tape and someone else made him a disk from capture. The disk would not even load in my players or PC to play. I was able to get it copied to drive finally and it appeared to work, but after burning to new disk it played perfect to near end then skips and freezes out of sink then finnally lock up totally after about 4 minutes of the craps. I ended up capturing his tape and making him a new DVD that way. It was not a bad burn or bad disk problem either of course.

Something I have not yet tried but will later, look for a file recover program for getting back lost data from hard drives.
I don't know if it will work or not but worth a try if all else fails, Free to try.
DIY Irecover is a good program, free demo and will save one folder. DVD you should only need to save 1 folder so if it works the demo is all you need.
Great program, I just recoverd 2 hard drives, I bought the program.

[Bjs]

If it ever , indeed existed , prior , on the hard drive , then use drive rescue to recover it .

http://woundedmoon.org/win32/driverescue19d.zip ... costs you nothing and beats the crap out of every other product .

With any of these recover tools you will get this warning .

If files were deleted and drive has been defragged since , you could possibly damage system files already laying in the original space that was preoccupied by the dvd content .

Although , I have not struck this issue as yet , but consider it an advisory warning notice when using such tools .

----

As for removable media , floppies , cds and dvds , once its buggered , its stuffed anyway ... forget useless removable media recovery tools , their a waste of time and money , when considering you already may posses dvddecrypter and the technique to ignore read errors as explained by guns1inger .

As for scratches , use a product called wipeout (from uk with world wide distribution) .
You can repair 300+ poorly scratched cd's / dvds before you run out .

----

Nothing can recover a disc with errors , if those errors were in the media or generated by the burner ... its stuffed .

[AlanHK]

forget useless removable media recovery tools , their a waste of time and money , when considering you already may posses dvddecrypter and the technique to ignore read errors as explained by guns1inger .

Isopuzzle is free, and is your best hope of getting some or all the data from a damaged disc. It doesn't ignore errors, it moves on and reads another section of the disc, but keeps coming back to the sectors it couldn't read till it gets them, or you tell it to stop.

[geepondy]

I guess I can just concede it is a bad copy although physically it looks fine. ISO Puzzle has just tried several thousand times to recover a sector without any success. Thanks for the advice. I've tried the two DVD's in my machine, I'll try once more at my work pc but don't have any hope.

[AlanHK]

I guess I can just concede it is a bad copy although physically it looks fine. ISO Puzzle has just tried several thousand times to recover a sector without any success. Thanks for the advice. I've tried the two DVD's in my machine, I'll try once more at my work pc but don't have any hope.

If it's only a few bad sectors, it should be possible to mount the ISO from ISOpuzzle with Daemon tools , or open it in ISObuster, and extract the VOBS, and then convert to MPEGs, and see how salvageable they are. You might just have a few seconds of bad video.

[MOVIEGEEK]

Try DVDFab Decrypter,I use it as a last resort when nothing else works.